Results 1-10 of 10 for cowen speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit: Motion (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...;ireann shall take note of the Report of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight entitled "Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 9th May, 2023. Deputy Cowen sends his apologies but he was unavoidably detained. He also made the point that he has just recently been installed as Chair of the committee and that he was not around...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just reading over the debate in January 2003 in the Oireachtas in advance of the Gulf War when then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, got up and defended what we now know to be an absolute pack of lies told by the US Government, US military intelligence, the British Government and British military intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that did not exist. Brian...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that background is utterly pathetic and insulting. The Government will need to do much more now. The one piece of advice I strongly urge the Government not to take is the shocking suggestion that came from Deputy Cowen a few moments ago. How wrong can somebody be? Deputy Cowen must be out of his mind to suggest the answer to the current spiral in energy costs is to privatise the ESB....

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., and was then handed over to Hines and others, how much affordable housing we are going to get or what the price will be. I am none the wiser today from the Government's Bill, which I have read through, as to how much the affordable housing in Cherrywood will actually be. Deputy Cowen also made a very good point, which I was going to make but I will repeat. None of the additional 10%...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...year. This is not just in terms of expenditure but also in terms of staff, so we can see if there is an increase in staff in health, for example. It would be useful information. To follow Deputy Cowen's point, as well as having numbers we need some way easily readable way of setting out targets or goals. We do not need too much information in a report like this or it would become...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...free these up, that it should make them available and that it should not degrade the standards. Absolutely, fire safety cannot be sacrificed in this. This is absolutely critical. Even if Deputy Cowen says this will not degrade the current controls, let us remember the current controls are not actually being enforced anywhere. It is one thing to have legislation, but if we do not have...

Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in 2014. It wishes to "further consider" the matter, but people cannot even agree on what committee should consider it. The Government indicates that it should be the finance committee; Deputy Barry Cowen has argued that it should be the housing committee, while Deputy Marc MacSharry has indicated that it should be the justice committee. It sounds to me like they want the issue to be...

Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Statements (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...absolutely crazy, driven by the hunger for profit, all cheered on by the political establishment. In his minority report, Deputy Joe Higgins gives a number of quotes but this one sums it up. It is of Brian Cowen speaking to the Institute of Bankers in 2006 on the subject of the financial instruments that wrecked the economy:Of course, not all these brave new initiatives are successful....

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Fáil sleaze that the Government would have denounced so quickly a few years ago? Does the picture of the Minister, Deputy Reilly, with Mr. Murphy not look reminiscent of the pictures of Mr. Brian Cowen with Mr. FitzPatrick?

Credit Guarantee Bill 2012: Second Stage (16 May 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that we should also benefit if it is successful. The Government's approach is a mini-version of the madness evident in the blanket bank guarantee provided by the previous Government under Brian Cowen. It offers another win-win scenario to the banks which knew at the time of the guarantee that they would make a fortune if their speculation worked out, but that Muggins, in other words,...