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- 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]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Within days of Putin's bloody and inexcusable invasion of Ukraine, the Taoiseach, along with other European leaders, demanded that Putin and his regime become outcasts in the international community and have argued for boycott, sanctions and divestment of Putin's regime for his horrible crimes. Yet the Taoiseach has reported that he met the Israeli President and continues with normal...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it interesting that the Taoiseach met with the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine as she was on the way to the International Monetary Fund, IMF. People Before Profit-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I referred to the IMF, which the Taoiseach might possibly have heard of.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry. My apologies. Prime Minister Shmyhal was going to the IMF to seek financial assistance. Since the beginning of this, People Before Profit has been saying that we should support the calls for a unilateral cancellation of Ukrainian debt. It would make a significant difference to the ability of Ukrainians to restore and rebuild their country, which has been shattered by Putin's bloody...
- Ireland's Participation in PESCO Projects: Referral to Select Committee (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not doing a very good job.