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- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The sort of skulduggery at the back of this amendment and the various other amendments brought forward at the last minute to circumvent the normal process of legislative scrutiny and oversight is precisely what has brought people to the streets this evening and precisely what has brought unprecedented numbers onto the streets in fury and anger during the past year. They are there because of...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no time limit.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is from one of the Government's own.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So it is possible to recommit them.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We deserve an answer to this. In the response to the complaints made about the manner in which the Minister at the last minute put in these very substantial amendments the line the Government gave out was that all this was well flagged. That was the line repeated ad nauseam at the weekend by the media, that all these changes were well flagged. Can the Minister of State explain why, if they...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----unless he was attempting to deliberately bypass the Second and Committee Stage debates where there would be proper scrutiny, oversight and debate on those issues? There can be no other explanation. If the Minister of State believes in the democratic process and a proper legislative procedure, this Bill has to go back to Committee Stage when we can properly scrutinise these amendments.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There it is again “well flagged”.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At the end of the meeting.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Motion to Recommit (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard it.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Minister of State say he or the EU are interested in negotiation or flexibility with the Greek Government when he supported the EU's stance of “take it or leave it”? The EU proposed a plan and told the Greek Government to accept it or else it would pull the plug. It is blackmail, not negotiation.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I will ask a question. The troika is determined to punish the Greek Government because it wants to keep its political promises. Does the Minister of State not think that is a shameful attack on the basic principles of democracy, that he, Fianna Fáil and the troika are supporting? They are affronted by the idea that a government might keep its election promises and they are...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There were several questions and they were very clearly articulated.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is common ground between Fianna Fáil and the Government.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The rates of suicide and infant mortality have increased.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister of State happy, notwithstanding the sham debate that sometimes takes place between the Government and Fianna Fáil, that Fianna Fáil in its comments today has joined the Government side in the vilification, bullying and misrepresentation of the position of the Greek Government as it resists the outrageous political bullying of and economic terrorism being inflicted on...
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sadly it is not.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because the Taoiseach whipped it off the table.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister deserves a medal from the political school of cute hoorism when it comes to how he has tried to manipulate, in the most cynical way, the democratic process in order to ram through measures to do with water charges in a Bill that ostensibly had nothing whatsoever to do with them when it was introduced in the Dáil. It is disappointing that much of the media have not shown...
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly.
- Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (1 Jul 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill has a new Title.