Results 5,221-5,240 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He has been referenced already on a couple of occasions, but nobody else was pulled up.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When the President referred to the poor law system that we thought we had left behind us as still being present, he was obviously referring to what is truly embarrassing, namely, the fact that there are 10,000 families, households, individuals and, worst of all, children in emergency accommodation. The situation has got worse and worse month after month under the auspices of this Government....
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are talks, plans and promises but the reality is the situation just gets worse. More people are homeless and more are being threatened with eviction. Rents are rising to obscene levels and are still going higher. House prices are at obscene levels and are still going higher. Families who have done nothing wrong are being evicted. Students cannot get accommodation that is anything...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The figure is 10%.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, the agency under the aegis of his Department. [30723/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Two years ago, the National Economic and Social Council produced a report in which it described Ireland’s housing sector as completely dysfunctional. It stated that this could be addressed by policy intervention by the Government and by structuring permanent affordability into the housing sector. Since then, the situation has got worse, not better. By the way, our housing costs are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a double standard. The Taoiseach would not meet Putin but he meets the Israelis.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The suffering of Palestinians is less important.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a moral equivalence.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Israelis have done that to Gaza as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No sanctions - ever.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So have the Israelis.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What does the Taoiseach think the siege of Gaza is except a weaponisation of food?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No sanctions - never.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just against all brutality; I am not selective.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is selective in his condemnation.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Saudi regime. The Government supports it all right.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [26001/22]