Results 281-300 of 26,383 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe it is a question more for the commission, but I cannot see what the issue was, given people have to go past a security hut and gate, which they can get past only with passes and which many people do go past with bicycles every day. Once they have got past the gate, they can go to exactly the place the OPW was proposing to put a different bike shed, which would have been much cheaper....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They expressed a preference for the Merrion Square side but that was not linked to security.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record, they are both on the Merrion Square side, as against the Kildare Street side. I know the witnesses are just told what they are saying but it does not really add up to me. That is the point, particularly if there was going to be a very significant additional cost. Serious questions therefore must be asked about why the more expensive option was opted for, because I cannot see...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will comment briefly on that issue. I am not over the detail of all of this, but the idea of an Irish children’s science museum in and of itself seems to be a good one. The Iveagh Gardens, however, is a very important amenity and we must look at the potential impact on it, as well as the cost issues. Many questions have been raised with us and I believe thousands of submissions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one last quick question. Mr. Conlon might not have an answer to it but maybe he could correspond with me. I tabled questions about the sale of Dalkey Garda station by the OPW during the summer. I certainly was very unhappy about that sale because in our area, we are crying out for public amenities and I do not understand why that space would have been sold by the OPW. I do not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the case that they were all offered it and they rejected it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Right, okay. That is incredible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, is that expression of interest in possible other public uses made public or is it just dealt with by one or two individuals in these organisations? How is that done? I mean the fact that the OPW is asking whether this could have other possible public uses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the representatives furnish me at least with that because I am not sure if the committee is interested-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----with any correspondence or communications with the relevant bodies in relation to that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the sale gone through?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just find it odd that the list was agreed in advance.
- Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Quality, not quantity.
- Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which I am happy to support. I will not get into the discussion about whether it goes too far or far enough other than to say I bow to the knowledge of people in the region, whether they are campaigners or political representatives, who I am sure know a hell of a lot more than me about the details of what is happening to the health...
- Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Good. Fair play to you, Minister. I support the motion. The case of Aoife Johnston, her tragic and unavoidable death, should be a wake-up call for everybody. Something like that should not have happened. It is absolutely tragic and no doubt linked to massive overcrowding and the fact that she was left on a trolley for 13 hours without the medication she needed to save her life. Her...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to ask about staffing in the health service. In July, the Government announced a lifting of the recruitment embargo in the HSE. However, over the past few weeks I have started to receive desperate calls from staff in multiple departments in my local hospital about a recruitment embargo being imposed in St. Michael's Hospital that is endangering patient safety and means workers...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if they are understaffed and unsafe.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Taoiseach who is putting the target on their backs.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has done it. I did not make the statement; he did.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the Taoiseach.