Results 101-109 of 109 for drugs speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Arts Funding (18 Jul 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on the increase. In that context, we all agree that it is vitally important the Government take a hands-on approach to support any initiative or organisation which provides a real alternative to drug-taking, drinking and violence. I draw the Minister's attention to the plight of the Streets Ahead dance school. While it is based in Swords, it involves hundreds of young people across...

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (15 May 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 113: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has any contingency plans to deal with the fall-out of the cuts affecting disadvantaged young persons, cuts to drugs services, travellers education services, the canal regional youth services and other youth projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23996/12]

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Apr 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a child is 13 does not mean he or she can look after himself or herself. Has the Government even considered the social consequences of this? There are huge implications for anti-social behaviour, drug abuse and, ironically, teenage pregnancy. Has the Minister really thought this through? It seems from his comments to date that very little thought has been given to the likely fall-out...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...over the years has been appalling in the extreme. It is not an exaggeration to say it has wreaked devastation across the world in every location in which it is intervened. It is not unlike a drug pusher in this regard. Its approach is to offer loans to countries in crisis at exorbitant interest rates while imposing austerity to such a severe degree that the society is devastated and its...

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...institution such as the IMF or give it any legitimacy, we should tell it and the bondholders to get lost. We should address our problems rather than become the victims of what are essentially drug pushers who are pressing us to take on the debt and austerity that will cripple our society and economy. This is what the IMF has done everywhere else. I make the following point due to sheer...

Review of Serious Incidents including Deaths of Children in Care: Statements (17 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...period between March and December 2010, is shocking. I do not know all of the circumstances but I find it shocking that one child who is known to the HSE and public services dies every month from a drug overdose, suicide or homicide. I do not know the circumstances of the other deaths but those facts are bad enough. It is a continuation of the failure of the State to look after our...

Mental Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...clear that there is some causal link between unemployment, economic dislocation, poverty and mental health issues. In addition there has been a rise in the levels of suicide, alcohol abuse, other drug abuse and so on. While I have no wish to rehearse the economic debates we have in here every day of the week, this matter cannot be dealt with seriously and no commitment to deal with this...

Written Answers — Community Employment Schemes: Community Employment Schemes (19 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...has been drawn to the fact that the planned changes to FÁS mean that the Gateway community project in the north inner city, which offers FETAC-certified courses to young women recovering from drug addiction, will no longer be able to continue offering these courses in view of the fact that FÁS is no longer a registered provider with FETAC and FETAC will not accept new providers; and if...

Community and Voluntary Sector: Motion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for some of our most vulnerable sectors of society. We are speaking here about projects and employment schemes that provide services for children, young adults, mothers, people with literacy and drug problems, immigrants and all other vulnerable sectors of our society in our most advantaged areas. These projects and employment schemes are a lifeline for those communities. Our society...