Results 17,721-17,740 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a copy of the motion here.
- Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This document is a manifesto for a third world war.
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What does the Minister think the US troops do in Afghanistan? Eat cakes?
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They did in Vietnam.
- Other Questions: Defence Forces Expenditure (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has had discussions with any of his European counterparts following the European Parliament report advocating possible military action in the Black Sea Basin, following the annexation of Crimea by Russia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25111/15]
- Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I listened with interest to the Minister’s definition of neutrality in the context of the worsening situation in the Black Sea area. The Minister was excusing the Fine Gael MEPs' decision to vote for this motion, which backs possible North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, military build-up in the Black Sea. What is the Government’s position on the NATO military build-up and...
- Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The motion that was passed calls for an increase in defence spending to 2% of gross domestic product, GDP, in the specific context of calling for greater military build-up in the Black Sea area, which is becoming the epicentre of a new cold war and where there is a constant aggressive build-up by the US and NATO. The European Union is now pushing to get involved. Does the Minister not think...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Meetings (25 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will report on his recent meeting with the Secretary General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25112/15]
- Credit Unions: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a topsy-turvy, upside down world in many ways. Nowhere is that more the case than in our attitude to banking. The commercial, for-profit banking sector dragged the country, Europe and much of the global economy to its knees because of its ruthless pursuit of profit. We bailed the banks out to the tune of the best part of €100 billion. Despite that, we continue to give them...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is difficult to take seriously the Government's belated conversion to the cause of dealing with low pay just six or nine months before a general election, given the fact that the problem has been chronic and worsening for the four years that it has been in office. Compared with our European counterparts, our standing in this matter is stark and shameful. We have the second highest level...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One certainly would.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are well short of the money.
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask about the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. We were told at a briefing that Report Stage amendments to this Bill would be brought forward. The deadline for us to put in amendments is tomorrow morning but the Government is going to bring in Report Stage amendments on issues unknown at the last minute. That is completely unacceptable. Are those amendments technical...
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will they be technical or substantive?
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are they substantial? Is the Taoiseach trying to pull a fast one?
- Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is trying to pull a fast one. That is the answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My figures are from the CSO and Barnardos.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of lone parents currently working part-time who are on rent allowance; the provision that has been made for them to ensure they benefit from increasing their hours of work in view of the loss of the one parent family payment and the fact that 75% of any additional income over €75 of earnings will be deducted from their rent...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (24 Jun 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, the Taoiseach gave a master class in spin, dishonesty and plain old prejudice against lone parents in his response to questions on the impact of the cuts that the Minister has visited on lone parents since 2012 and that are planned with the discontinuation of the one-parent family payment this July. Despite what the Taoiseach said yesterday, is it not true that the Minister has...