Results 1-20 of 38 for dogs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Did you mean: does speaker:315?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the output of housing is because of speculation, land banking, etc. IGEES speculates that the property people are speculating and that the evidence would suggest that may well be the case. To be honest, the dogs in the street know that is true. We can all see examples of it in our own areas where they have the planning permission, they have the SDZ and the whole bleedin' lot but it...

Accommodation Needs for New Arrivals: Statements (23 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...that, for generations, hundreds of thousands of Irish people who emigrated, often illegally in the case of the United States, suffered the same kind of racist and horrendous victimisation. No dogs, no blacks, no Irishmen. Tabloid newspapers in Britain, owned by the right wing and the far right, created horrible stereotypes of the Irish being violent and drunken and terrorists or sexual...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...oppose that divisive, hate-filled racism. It is especially tragic that it could happen when we consider the decades and decades of racist discrimination Irish people suffered, of the "no dogs, no blacks and no Irish" kind, in the United States, Britain and elsewhere. We should therefore be clear in condemning this situation. I must be honest, however, and say that a considerable...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for the development in Shanganagh, where we only got the sod turned this week. Meanwhile, there are fellas building co-living apartments for rent at €1,300 a month, in which you would not put a dog. They were built and that is the problem.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...accommodation, never mind all the private student accommodation that is being built by investment funds charging €1,000 a month. How are these students supposed to study when they are working like a dog to pay these rents, if they can even manage to pay them? Many just cannot do it. Student poverty and mental health issues are rampant. I have highlighted this again and again....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...constrained and regulated by all of the various directives in terms of marine spatial planning, protection of biodiversity and habitats, and so on. We need to know that the tail is not wagging the dog in how we undertake marine planning and development. That is a brief summary of the logic behind this series of amendments. I would like to hear the Minister of State's response. I hope...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if dog grooming and dog training falls under essential animal welfare services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32310/20]

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a victim of murderous, brutal and systemic racism that was deliberately stoked, encouraged and escalated by the billionaire Donald Trump, who uses racism deliberately, as even General James "Mad Dog" Mattis has admitted, to divide and rule, to deflect away from economic and social injustice and to set people against one another. Will the Taoiseach condemn Donald Trump for his use of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... Given the obvious incompetence, mismanagement and obscene salaries of Mr. Delaney and his clique in the FAI, the Government must take some responsibility for its failure to investigate what the dogs in the street knew. Those at the grassroots of soccer knew that there was something rotten at the heart of the FAI. I am looking at an email response from the Taoiseach, when he was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...ambulance drivers. It is shocking double standards, typical of Fine Gael. Its last little claim for credibility, that it could manage things in a prudent financial way, has now been exposed. It has made an absolute dog's dinner of this key infrastructural project and no apologising or explaining can justify it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to be incurred. The Minister is not facing the reality which then just comes back and bites him. In this case, it is going to come back and bite him in the form of a nurses' strike. The dogs on the street know that pay is at the base of the failure to recruit nurses. For every four nursing posts advertised, there is only one application. There are nearly 2,000 fewer nurses in the...

Finance Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...made since 2012 up to the present and in any future years where the benefit of this tax relief might still accrue.". I will be brief on this as we have discussed the topic quite a few times. The dog in the street knows extortionate profits are being made in the property sector currently. Much of this profit is being made by investors, asset management companies, vulture funds or however...

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of vilification and character assassination to defend practices that breached the standards An Garda Síochána is supposed to uphold. I reiterate the tributes to Deputies Wallace and Clare Daly, who have doggedly pursued this matter from the outset, despite attempts to impugn their characters. It seems to be a standard feature of the way the State and the system respond to...

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...military at Shannon when we have a bloodthirsty racist war monger in the White House? It is unconscionable if that is the case. The US Secretary of Defence is a bloodthirsty maniac whose name is "Mad Dog" Mattis and who has boasted about how it is fun to shoot and kill people and about how he wants to go and shoot more people in Afghanistan. Literally, the stench of death from the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the site. That was just one raid, and the problem is that there are not enough raids to identify a problem that is rampant. Anyone working in construction will say so. It is a cliché to say that the dogs on the street know, but there is wholesale abuse of the category of self-employment. It is being dictated by contractors because they have the whip hand. People approach...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to reports of the cruel mistreatment in China of greyhounds that have been sent from Ireland, including some dogs being boiled alive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28897/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (5 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately halt the transporting and trading of greyhounds from Ireland to China due to the cruel treatment that these dogs experience in transit to China and once they reach there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28898/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Summits (28 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to decide their own policies. However, when it comes to the EU telling us we must accept a regressive, unpopular, unwanted austerity tax in the form of water charges, he suddenly becomes a little puppy dog who rolls over in the most servile fashion and tells us we must obey every single diktat that comes from the EU, regardless of the fact the people of this country have clearly given...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Revenue Raising Proposals: Minister for Finance and Revenue Commissioners (20 Sep 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...nothing, which suggests there is absolute rampant abuse of the bogus self-employment RCT system. I do not believe we are taking seriously the allegations that are being made consistently. The dogs on the street in the construction industry know that this is going on and still we do not seem to be doing anything about it. I will flag one further issue. The Unite trade union, in...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...The Mafia came from the misguided belief that prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol would eradicate it, and it did not. Instead it produced a massive criminal network which continues to dog the United States to the present day, and eventually in the United States they realised prohibition was not the way forward. That does not mean advocating excessive alcohol use or believing...