Results 181-200 of 26,383 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not dismiss them. I said they were fair enough.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While we are choking with fossil fuels.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will never get to the substantive amendments.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why?
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or the Americans.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Look-----
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. Unfortunately, the discussion on the Bill commenced early and therefore, I have not heard the earlier contributions. I will to briefly restate my concerns about the ramming through of this Bill. On Report Stage, we had many amendments which did not get dealt with because the Bill was guillotined. I know the Government will say there were many hours afforded to this Bill on...
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On this-----
- Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course, nobody who receives this credit before or after Christmas will be sorry to do so. As the ESRI has pointed out, however, the net effect of the Government’s budget is that some of the least well-off and most vulnerable households will be marginally less well off. That is pretty shameful. Given the astonishing, unprecedented budget surpluses and, of course, the Apple...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the housing issue, I fully agree with the comments about the labour shortage and bottlenecks and the need to address these issues as a matter of urgency. They need to be addressed in multiple ways. We need more apprentices and more people trained in the construction trades. Immigrants or returning Irish people can help us solve this issue. The Irish might come back if we can...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just coincidence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I have made my point. I would just ask Mr. Madouros to look a little bit closer into the evidence on that last point. Among others, the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform have done studies on this in which they did not really find planning as a major problem. The Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, report, for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would also raise the question of finance other than domestic banks limiting our exposure., but it also has other impacts. Mr. Madouros should consider them when he is making those comments. There are clearly other impacts of that, and I am the view that they are, arguably, seriously detrimental to our ability to resolve the housing crisis. On the consumer issues I wanted to ask about,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We got a reply from the Central Bank's director of consumer protection in May.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Great, I would appreciate that. As part of answering that, will Mr. Makhlouf state whether there has been an investigation into this and the number of Irish people potentially exposed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks, last question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The previous member had a lot more time, so I will have one last question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will. It is on the selling of Israeli war bonds. I think the Central Bank response to the concerns raised about its facilitating the sale of bonds that are being clearly sold as war bonds and supporting the Israeli military action in Gaza and so on is that there is nothing it can do about it because it relates to the framework of what it has and has not remit over at EU level. I think...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So, in one sentence, there is no ethical or moral framework that impinges on the rules governing the selling of these things. I am not pointing a finger at Mr. Makhlouf.