Results 19,061-19,080 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the conversion of Moneypoint power station to biomass as a move towards meeting our European targets for renewable energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40482/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My question concerns the raging debate about the need to consider options such as biomass as opposed to plans for industrial wind farm, which have been the subject of much of the focus. Some €3.8 billion is planned to be spent on boosting our transmission system to facilitate controversial large wind turbines. There are major arguments against this and I do not have the time to go...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We must consider matters such as this holistically. We plan to spend €3.8 billion to boost the transmission system so as to facilitate plans for industrial wind farms. This affects people in the midlands, but there is also major concern about and opposition to the proposal to build one of the world's largest wind farms on the Kish bank in Dublin Bay. Conversely, it is estimated that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Alternative Energy Projects (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister's statement that we must get together to discuss this matter. Many people with enthusiasm for, knowledge of and interest in this issue must be included urgently. If we do not believe that industrial, large-scale wind farms are the answer, we must develop alternatives. We need that debate quickly. I am convinced that the industrial wind farm model does not give the...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has considered developing district energy and community co-operative projects as part of developing our renewable energy strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40408/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (23 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider including using local labour and local economy gain stipulations in the licensing regime for off shore gas and oil exploration and development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40411/14]
- Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what you said last year.
- Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Except that it was interpreted in a different way a year ago.
- Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We got a totally different ruling on that Standing Order.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take great satisfaction from the fact that on Saturday, 11 October the Government's spin and trumpeting of recovery were blown out of the water by an unprecedented mobilisation of 100,000 people taking to the streets-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and saying, "We don't buy-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the clock.
- Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The people who are sovereign made clear their views on all of the Government's spin and claims of success. They came out to declare that they have had enough and that all of the Government's trickery in terms of the hated regressive water charges and property taxes is meaningless. People want them abolished and to be given real relief. The Government is panic stricken and back peddling at...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Agreements (22 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the Government of Iraq’s recent call for a global ban on depleted uranium weapons, the Houses of the Oireachtas past support for an Irish domestic ban on the weapons, and the European Parliament’s recommendation to the Council of Ministers this year that member states seek a common position in favour of both a...
- Irish Fiscal Advisory Council's Pre-Budget 2015 Statement: Statements (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council might have written a different pre-budget statement about the capacity of people to bear even more austerity because of the crisis memory, as referred to by Deputy Paul Murphy, had it been written following the demonstration last Saturday week. It got that very wrong. What the demonstration showed is that people have had enough and they are not willing to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What if someone does not want one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think that is what they were asking for.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So Ms Mannion does not know whether there is a fee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had one other question that was not answered.