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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has plans to fund the drug, dupilumab which is used to treat a form of asthma, under the reimbursement scheme; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29408/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not on that. It is convenient for you.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Relations (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like the Taoiseach to comment on the imprisonment of Mr. Rached Ghannouchi. He is the elected Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament. I met his son at a Palestinian solidarity conference in Oslo a few weeks ago. He is very worried about his father because he is 81 years old. Mr. Ghannouchi is a renowned human rights activist and writer and was a central figure in the Arab Spring....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were just attacking her bias.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.

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]