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Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...them. When they knew it was time to do so, they would have taken a decision to give them absolutely rubbish contracts in order that they can have a workforce that can be turned on and off like a tap. They would also have to decided to guarantee those people only 20 hours' work a week but with the proviso that they must be on call for 40. Furthermore, they would have decided to pay them...

Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of offshore wind, it is also about tidal and current energy. Much work still has to be done to develop the potential of the latter but undoubtedly, these are renewable energy resources we will tap into in future as we try to address the climate emergency. It is, however, very important to remember that just as we have a climate emergency, we have biodiversity emergency. We declared...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...posed by the Taoiseach. He was right to ask it and nobody else has answered it but that is the answer. That would be a long-term sustainable solution and would prevent the turning off of the tap for social and affordable housing until we can get the direct construction of social and affordable housing up to the level it should be at.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the housing sector and during that same period when we had unprecedented levels of supply in the general sense, albeit profit-driven supply, we also had pretty much the turning off of the tap of direct build social housing on public land, starting with Fianna Fáil and then carrying on through with Fine Gael Governments. It is not an ideological point. It is a statement of fact that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Beef Industry (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...them to put goods onto the market and, as such, depress the price. It is a little similar to how OPEC operates in the Gulf states. If one producer threatens to raise the price, another turns on the taps to keep the price down. The people who lose out in this case are the small farmers, whose incomes are pitiful, although people such as Mr. Goodman are making very significant profits.

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...getting increased rent. For every vulture fund that takes over what was public property under NAMA, which could have provided the public housing we needed, there are people who are not doing a tap of work but who are buying shares in these funds and making fortunes overnight. That has been facilitated all the way along the line by this Government. A disastrous decision was taken by...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister and his team. It has become a bit of a staple of the new Government, including the Minister, to have a go at the left, with various adjectives attached to it, including "extreme", "far" and "hard". I note the Minister recently talked about people resisting change and saying we do not want change. It is an interesting development in the political narrative of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to know that I will not quibble about the fact that the water charges are being abolished and the cost will be met by the Central Fund. I just believe that the Central Fund should be larger by tapping into other sources of revenue. Will the Minister confirm that the cost of abolishing water charges will not impact on the water infrastructure capital investment plans over the coming...

Summer Economic Statement 2017: Statements (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...will not talk about taxing them or financial transactions. What about €6 billion in debt repayments we will make this year, which add up to 14% of Government revenue? These are the elephants in the room. If the Minister tapped these resources we would have the money to deal with the social crisis and the economic crisis being faced by the State.

Topical Issue Debate: Surveillance Operations (17 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not surprise me but it is completely scandalous that we have revelations from yet another Garda whistleblower alleging that innocent people's phones are being tapped. In one case, according to the allegation, a sitting Deputy had his or her phone tapped by An Garda Síochána, possibly as a result of pressure from a Minister. Certainly, the whistleblower believes it was a...

Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...deal particularly with the misuse of power in office. The allegation that was made over the weekend is of a shocking order, suggesting the possibility that influence was exercised by a Minister to tap the phone of a constituency team member of a sitting Teachta Dála for political reasons.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): UK Referendum on EU Membership (29 Sep 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is pandering to forces on his right that he is worried could outflank the Tories and that is a dangerous road to go down. Is it not also the case that the disillusionment that these forces can tap into is the responsibility of the European Union itself given the kinds of things it has done to the people of Greece when they demanded an end to austerity, change, fairness, respect for...

Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely welcome that response. I agree that we need a little time, although we should not take too much time. There is urgency but we need real consultation and buy-in. We need to tap into the expertise, knowledge, ideas and enthusiasm of communities and people who know about this matter. I must press my proposal, which has been given to me by others who know more about it than I do...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Bill 2013: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...line of thinking so I do not need to elaborate greatly. I want to deal with the term "multiple value" but first I will spell out one point. We should develop the industry's economic potential, tap into and realise it by encouraging people to go into the industry. Those are all the things the Government has said we should do. It is critical we are not too narrow in our conception of...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to give them some type of reassurance. Do we want a situation where pensioners and vulnerable sectors of our society will be afraid to turn on the taps-----

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., and I eagerly await the barracking from the other side. There is a pattern developing with this Government in the legislation it proposes and the statements of policy it outlines. It tries to tap into the huge sense of outrage felt by ordinary working people, the less well off, the lower and middle income earners in our society, who cannot get over the injustice of being forced to pay...