Results 18,281-18,300 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How could it allow greater access?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who makes the ruling?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How would making the general practitioner the officer to determine eligibility involve greater access?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With due respect-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chairman has articulated a possible explanation. All of the points she has made have nothing whatsoever to do with the Bill because they are arguments around it. They are assumptions people are making that have nothing to do with the Bill which is about meeting certain criteria. Does it state anywhere that, when deciding whether somebody is eligible or meets the criteria, budgetary...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a different matter.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I most certainly will. I really believe the decision to rule amendment No. 5 out of order is baseless.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I submitted these two amendments and I will revert to them on Report Stage because there is no doubt in my mind that this section involves a deliberate subtle or not so subtle attempt to tighten eligibility and entitlement for carers. That is unacceptable. What it is doing essentially is to retrospectively legislate for what has been happening in practice, which is a tightening up of...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly my point.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has confirmed what I said. He has read out the same passages that I read to him a moment ago and that is the reason I tabled these amendments. He has confirmed that we are shifting the emphasis to the deciding officer. He has clarified that it is the deciding officer who only has "to take into account". What does that mean? They have to take into account the medical...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The phased reduction over a period of three years of the back-to-work family dividend will mean a progressive reduction in the overall income of lone parents who work more than 19 hours, and in the third year the payment will disappear altogether. It defies my understanding as to how this is an incentive for people to get back to work if they will lose out and their income will fall.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am working off the tables that SPARK put together, which set out that the transition will mean people who are working will lose out in general. The losses are spelt out whereby someone working 20 hours could lose up to €80.52 per week in the third year, someone working 28 hours could lose up to €66 per week and someone is working 35 hours could lose up to €54 per week....
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) 2015: Committee Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am merely concerned with regard to lone parents. These people are losing out.
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: An African proverb goes "The lion roared and it gave birth to a mouse." That pretty much sums up this referendum proposal. The roaring lion was the voices of the people calling for a democratic revolution which the Government had promised and the mouse is a referendum about changing the age at which somebody can run for President. It is almost not worth dignifying the Bill with a serious...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a comprehensive report on plans to lift the embargo on recruitment as per budget 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11685/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (25 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on any meetings he has had or intends to have with the relevant unions on restoring public service pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11686/15]
- European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's demeanour and behaviour in respect of Greece at the most recent Council meeting were nothing short of despicable. Regardless of where this all ends, the Greek Government has at least challenged the narrative of austerity that has done such damage, crushed the ordinary people of Greece and given rise to a desperate humanitarian crisis and asked that the possibility of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no sign of them. It is a mirage.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (24 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They tell us they have no money.