Results 341-360 of 24,382 for speaker:Seán Barrett

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Analysis of Economic Forecasts: Central Bank of Ireland (6 Sep 2016)

Seán Barrett: In terms of expenditure, I am bothered that we always discuss percentages of GDP, targets, etc., without dealing in depth with the types of expenditure that are more acceptable than others. We are losing out by not considering productive expenditure and the types of expenditure in which the country engages. I appreciate that there is only so much that the witnesses can say but, in terms...

Topical Issue Debate: Harbours and Piers Development (12 Jul 2016)

Seán Barrett: I thank the Minister. The management of the harbour is the point at issue. With the greatest of respect to the local authority, I do not believe that the skills are available within the local authority structure to manage a vital asset such as this. The harbour company, if proper directors who know their business are appointed, can see to the future development of this harbour in a proper...

Topical Issue Debate: Harbours and Piers Development (12 Jul 2016)

Seán Barrett: I thank the Acting Chairman for his kind words and the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this topic. Dún Laoghaire harbour is very dear to me. I have been a resident and a native of Dún Laoghaire for almost 72 years and I know the harbour backwards. I was also Minister for the Marine and Minister for Defence in the mid-1990s when we put through the Harbours Bill, which is now the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: I apologise for being late. I thought we were beginning at 11 a.m., the misunderstanding is my fault. I welcome the Minister and his officials. To follow on from his comment on the battle group, I think Ireland should be very proud of her ongoing involvement in peacekeeping missions, particularly the reputation we have gained from having the UNTSI peacekeeping college based in the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: What is the cost of the peacekeeping college?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: This is it again. It is hidden in here somewhere. We should be displaying this. This is something of which we should very proud. It is hidden in these Estimates but what I am trying to get across is-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: I am talking about the existing one. This is an image of Ireland of which we should be very proud. When people come to Ireland to find out whether they can visit our peacekeeping college, they certainly should not be blocked from doing so. They should be encouraged to visit it and be told how we train people because this is like the gospel. One tries to spread it. What would the Minister...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: Watch out.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: It is important to build up the Reserve in Dublin also. When I was growing up, the Reserve Defence Forces was a big thing in Dublin but that appears to have waned. I do not notice it now. While I support the views expressed by the Chairman and Deputies, the Minister should not forget to hold a recruitment campaign for the Reserve Defence Force in Dublin.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (23 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to increase upwards the limits to inheritance tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17496/16]

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (22 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: I welcome the witnesses. The committee was established to examine arrangements for budgetary scrutiny. Rather than having everybody getting in each other's way and having so many bodies examining different things, we must work out a structure in which there is a real input at particular times with the committee when it is established. IFAC's role is to independently assess and publicly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (22 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: 226. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand services in the areas of increasing longevity and improvements in survival from various neurological diseases and the growing complexity of chronic disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17548/16]

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (21 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: Do I have to be that brief?

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (21 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: I am not speaking for the sake of it. I just want to get my head around this issue. Our job is to talk about the arrangements for the setting up of a budgetary scrutiny committee. We have been talking in general terms about inputs into budgets and all the rest of it, but I am interested in the role of such a committee and the statutory input into this whole process that will be made by the...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (21 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: Mr. Bond, may I interrupt? The question I am putting to you, as a body, is whether the IHREC has four or five key points that should be automatically laid down for whatever government is framing a budget and that the government will have to test its budget against the four, five or six recommendations set? In other words is it fair to ask - or am I asking the impossible - that you as the...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (21 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: Do you see the point I am getting at? As distinct from talking generally about the budgets and politics-----

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (21 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: That would change, depending on who is in government, whether we like it or not.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (21 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: Correct.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (21 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: Correct.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (21 Jun 2016)

Seán Barrett: That is possible?