Richard Boyd Barrett
speaker
123 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 29 May
Richard Boyd Barrett’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So how much are you looking forward to having the day off on Monday?
Having three days if you're not working Saturday or Sunday, if you're not rostered to work or you don't work those days.
Just having that extra day on Monday for a long weekend.
Could you have more of them in the year?
Should we have more of them in the year?
I saw Roderick O'Gorman, the Green Party, its leader last week, looking for an extra public holiday on top of the 10 we already have.
But Richard Boyd Barrett, people before profit, you want how many additional public holidays?
I'm just looking at the list here.
Cyprus gives 15 public holidays.
Bulgaria, Croatia, Iceland, Malta and Spain have 14.
Notice the sunnier countries seem to have more public holidays perhaps at times.
Exactly.
The French only have 11, but beneath us, we actually have more than the Danes, the Netherlands and Scotland have nine and England and Wales only have eight.
But is there not a cost to business in particular doing this?
In February.
Okay.
Put on your headphones there, please, because we've got Damien McCarthy with us, Managing Director of HR Buddy, which is a HR consultancy firm.
Damien, what do you make of this idea?
How did this 350 million, 355 million estimate, how was that produced by the Department of Enterprise?
Do we know?
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