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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be somewhat parochial as well, not in a hostile way to other ports, but just because Dún Laoghaire harbour is what I know about. Some of the issues are also of more general resonance. I very much welcome the move to put these ports under local authority control, certainly in Dún Laoghaire's case it is something I have urged for a while. It was very unclear what the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: General Scheme of Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion (24 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Legislation can be mystifying for us as well.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider closing the 34 direct provision centres in the State and putting an end to the institutionalisation that is having such a detrimental effect on the lives of asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35426/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she has received any Health Information and Quality Authority reports on investigations into conditions in direct provision centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35427/14]
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to share time with Deputy Wallace.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While I have no doubt about the bravery and good intentions of the Irish troops participating in the UNDOF mission, I think the time has come to pull them out. I do not think we should continue to participate in this mission, which is largely irrelevant in the current context. We should not be endangering the lives of Irish troops in the middle of an extremely dangerous mess that has been...
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have already had one group-----
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The safest thing-----
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should be careful.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He should pull them out. There is no good reason for them to be there in this dangerous situation.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation is getting completely out of control. It is spilling over into Kurdistan and Turkey. God knows where it will go from here. Therefore, I see no purpose in our troops being there. I think we should pull them out.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our troops are in the UNDOF buffer area.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Defence Forces Mission on the Golan Heights: Statements (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of the rebel groups are operating in that area. Some of the conflict is taking place there. It is spreading across Syria and into Turkey. If the Minister knows where it will end, I think he is making a serious mistake. The US is escalating the conflict by starting to bomb. This will fuel a situation that is already dangerous and disastrous. The most useful thing we could do in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These statistical questions are important because there is nothing which infuriates people more than being told things are getting better for them when they self-evidently are not. The question relates both to the broader issue of jobs and unemployment and to different sectors and levels of pay. It is a problem from a statistical point of view if we cannot get a proper breakdown of these...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be helpful if the Government at least owned up to that fact. It is a disastrous situation, notwithstanding that the creation of any new job is, of course, welcome. The question also referred to pay rates and sectors, but the Minister of State has not been able to give us any proper statistics in this regard. Those data are important because people in this country are of the view,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking a question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a statement.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister of State accept there is widespread and justified concern that displacement is going on? One example of this is what is happening at the Rhatigan site, where brick layers, after not being paid for five weeks, were given €100 per week for work for which they previously would have received €600 or €700.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is this the type of job creation we are talking about?