Results 19,081-19,100 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Surely the costs are fixed for all these things, for maintenance and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My questions relate to the issue of corporate tax. Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and Sinn Féin have all made it clear that they are committed to retaining a low corporate tax regime, supposedly to lure in investment, as a key part of the State's economic strategy. As the Taoiseach knows, a small minority of Deputies question this attitude. I wonder how the Taoiseach will respond...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the CER clarify its role in the area of water conservation? Some of us do not believe that Irish Water has got anything to do with water conservation at all and that it is just another money-grab that is going to cost people a fortune. I would like to ask the witnesses what precisely they consider their role to be in the area of water conservation and how they are going to act to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's corporate tax rate with President Obama or any other leaders during his recent trip to New York to address the UN; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39812/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed Ireland's corporate tax rate at the recent Rhode Island event where he met with Governor Lincoln Chaffee and senior public representatives, including senators and congressmen, in his promotion of trade and investment links between Ireland and Rhode Island; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39813/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has conducted a review of the rent allowance scheme; the way the rent caps relate to current market prices; the way the scheme as it stands is contributing or not to the increase in homelessness; if she will provide details of any and all such reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39801/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (21 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 7 May 2014, in view of a person's (details supplied) rent allowance being withdrawn without the review mentioned; if the allowance will be reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39800/14]
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if one is in the RAS, rental accommodation scheme.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about taxing corporations?
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No one over here said that it did.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If that is the case, why waste €1 billion on meters?
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our deficit is now debt interest because we now have a primary surplus. We have achieved this surplus because of a cruel and unjust six years of austerity. Given this surplus has been achieved through the suffering of the people, we now have an unanswerable moral case to tell the EU it should either give us a good deal and some retrospective justice for what has been done to us, or we will...
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My point is that the education system and even the workers who build our schools are paying the price for that €8 billion. Why is the State refusing to investigate this scandal? The reason is that because the way the State sees it we have to build schools cheaply and force workers-----
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to do nothing-----
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because €8 billion is going out in interest-----
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which the European Union should be recapitalising.
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Acting Chair is absolutely right.
- European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Report Stage (16 Oct 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The question before us is whether we should apply for retroactive recapitalisation.