Results 19,901-19,920 of 26,960 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Universal health insurance is another con. It is another regressive tax to be imposed on people who are already struggling and already burdened with a massive tax burden, whether it is the universal social charge, all sorts of indirect stealth taxes and charges, bin charges, the planned water charges, VAT on everything people buy or parking charges. On top of all that, the Minister is going...
- Ambulance Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a major crisis in the national ambulance service - a crisis that leads to deaths. The estimate is that one person per month dies unnecessarily as a result of the under-resourcing and the cuts that have been imposed on the ambulance service. It does not get any more serious than that. People are dying unnecessarily. The cuts the Government is imposing - not just the recruitment...
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: NAMA is the cartel.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Answer the question.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How many of the landlords involved accept rent allowance? Is it one?
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When it is the Government going to do that? When is it going to build council houses?
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The first step in solving this problem is for the Minister to recognise that an emergency exists-----
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and that emergency measures are required to deal with it. I have been informed by officials from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council that, for the first time ever, they have nothing to offer families seeking accommodation. They cannot even provide homeless accommodation. The officials in question are just telling people to go away. What is the Minister going to do about this?...
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do so every day.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So it has nothing to do with landlords.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should give money to the local authorities to allow them to do that.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Please.
- Other Questions: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael and Labour control those local authorities.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the dramatic rise in rents in urban centres, and in Dublin in particular, when she will review the caps for rent allowance; if she will meet with representatives of the four Dublin local authorities and senior staff from community welfare to discuss the real impact on local authorities and the community welfare service of these rent...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department has carried out a cost benefit analysis of the rent allowance programme. [16752/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Taoiseach how he proposes to respond to the people calling for that robust analysis and for these projects to be put on hold until there has been a cost-benefit analysis of the environmental and economic gain and to ensure protection of communities and public participation in these debates. The Taoiseach has not as yet convinced anybody that he is taking this matter seriously...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is just rubbish. The Taoiseach wittered on for 15 minutes saying nothing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Have they been discussed?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly does not contribute to reducing CO2emissions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Climate Change Policy (15 Apr 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People are already protesting.