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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No answer, in other words.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I expect sanctions to be imposed on Saudi Arabia and the apartheid State of Israel promptly following that announcement. I will not hold my breath on that, obviously. I again ask about the €1,000 that was promised to healthcare workers. The applause given to those healthcare workers for the work they did during the Covid pandemic - and are still doing - rings hollow now when the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have Private Members' time every six months.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You do not care about the people in Yemen. The Government does not want to embarrass the-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask once again for the Government to allow time for a debate on the disastrous situation and war in Yemen. The Government rightly has moved heaven and earth to debate and set out a response to the disastrous situation in Ukraine but it is stubbornly resistant to discussing the war in Yemen that has claimed more than 300,000 lives and brought 14 million people to the brink of starvation....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will amend the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrants scheme to include everyone in need of regularisation in order that Ireland does not need to correct these mistakes in future generations to come; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16259/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 466. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the child benefit until the end of the school year in cases in which a child reaches 18 years of age but is still in full-time education during the leaving certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 503. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the former site of the St Patrick's refuge and laundry, Dún Laoghaire, which currently has a planning application for apartments has been assessed as to whether it is potentially a burial site; if not, if he plans to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider allowing all persons in direct provision to work given the new refugee programme for those fleeing war in Ukraine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14565/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all our contributors. The main thing I am looking for is hope. I accept that the targets, figures and finances are important and that one has to go through all this detail to deliver social and affordable housing. I have been around a while now and note that nothing has changed about the human reality or the misery of people coming through my door week in, week out, owing to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The CCMA delegates might have wanted to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I did, and many questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was one question I did not get an answer to earlier. Maybe people do not have the answer; the Government cannot give me an answer. Does the CCMA have any idea where can we get the figures for how many people are being taken off the list each year because they are reaching the income thresholds? I would just like to know those facts. If I understand correctly, Mr. Curran referred...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was mostly AHBs, was it not?

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems the IMF and Bretton Woods institutions are keen to rebrand themselves and this Bill seems to be linked to that effort by the IMF. The infamous structural adjustment programmes that were imposed by the IMF on this country and many other countries in the developing world or those which hit major economic crises have proved utterly disastrous because of the conditions linked to these...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister is aware, we believe that he should use the powers he has under the Consumer Protection Act to control the price of fuel, energy and so on. He has turned his face against that. However, there is one measure I would ask him to consider. Given that he has rightly given €100 per week to hauliers as an emergency payment to compensate for the rising cost of fuel because...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Anti-War Movement, in conjunction with Saudi Arabian dissidents who can never return to their country because if they did, they would be killed, is organising a demonstration this Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Garden of Remembrance. Those involved will march to the Saudi Arabian embassy. The march was organised long before the war in Ukraine but, in a gesture of solidarity, they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Behind closed doors, there is plenty of wining among the sheikhs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any or all discussions he has had with his counterparts across Europe with regard to the war in Yemen and the ongoing humanitarian crisis there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14568/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been a war raging in Yemen for seven years. Some 10,000 children have died directly and indirectly as a result of that war, 377,000 people have died directly and indirectly as a result of that war and the UN estimates that 17.4 million people are on the brink of starvation. That war involves Saudi Arabia, which is armed to the teeth by allies of ours, the United States, the UK and...