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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a shocking statement.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a shocking statement.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was a disgraceful comment.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a shocking comment regarding the jackboot.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So do we.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was disgraceful that it was said we were Putin's puppets.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we did not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (15 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a huge irony in people who oppose a two-state solution in Ireland supporting it in Palestine. Nobody believes partition is an acceptable solution here, yet somehow we think the ethnic and racist partition of Palestine is a solution. Nobody in Palestine believes that any more. They increasingly recognise that the Oslo Accords were a smokescreen through which Israel would continue...
- Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As an urban Deputy, I am obviously very conscious that I do not have the day-to-day experience of what is happening in rural Ireland. In that regard, I have to rely to a large extent on insights from those whose judgment I trust. As a result, some of what I will say will reflect what I have heard from people who are living in rural Ireland and who have particular views about what is going...
- Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some 30% of it is in the southern region. The areas that have the least of it are the west and north, which has only 14% of the wealth. As can be seen, there is a stark inequality in the distribution of wealth.
- Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: However, if you marry that with some other facts that we saw in the Teagasc survey on farm incomes published in recent days, you can see that average farm incomes vary radically. Again, there are gross and shocking inequalities. The average dairy farmer has an income of €97,000. I am sure there are plenty of medium-sized dairy farmers who do not have that size of income, so we can...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure whether the Taoiseach answered on whether the Cabinet committee on housing will meet before the summer recess. He might repeat what he said if he did. It is very important the housing committee meets before the summer recess to tackle a number of things. One of them is the one I have mentioned as it is a serious issue, namely, that the eligibility criteria for cost rental do...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Taoiseach which Cabinet sub-committees will meet before the summer recess. [28607/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach painted a rather rosy picture of the Government's progress in addressing the problems of the health service. A very different picture was presented by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association on Friday in a press statement it put out, detailing that 893,000 people are now on some form of National Treatment Purchase Fund waiting list, that a further 250,000 people are waiting...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health is next due to meet. [28606/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [28603/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is interesting that the Taoiseach was talking about the difficulty of the leaving certificate mathematics exam when it is clear there are problems understanding mathematics in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The competitiveness challenge report highlighted the vital need to address the high cost of housing and one of the centrepieces of the Government's response...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank God for that.
- National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my condolences to those offered to the family of Christy Dignam, as Deputy Smith did. Christy was a legend in music and a beautiful singer. He was a working-class hero and I suspect his songs will be sung for a long time, if not forever. He will be greatly missed but his legacy will live on. It would probably surprise many people that we have a situation where there is such a thing...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, should we first hear from Dr. Killian?