• People Before Profit Alliance TD for Dún Laoghaire
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Richard Boyd Barrett speaks (no more than once per day)

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Asks most questions about

• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Forestry Sector, Covid-19 Pandemic Supports, Tax Code, Housing Schemes

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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

“The International Court of Justice, ICJ, concluded earlier this year that Israel was plausibly committing genocide against the people of Gaza. Yesterday the Government of the United States of America made a decision to give €13 billion to a State that is plausibly - and in my opinion undoubtedly - guilty of genocide. Thousands more people have died since the ICJ ruling. Does the...”

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

“I think Deputy Smith is not coming in. I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this important motion. People Before Profit strongly believes we should abolish the means test for carer's allowance. Indeed, we are against means testing full stop. I will talk a bit more about that. In the case of carers, it is completely unacceptable. Hundreds of thousands of people in this...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

“Yes.”

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• Has spoken in 255 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 437 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 11 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 71 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Richard Boyd Barrett speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 3054 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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