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- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Properties (22 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 689. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if progress has been made identifying a location for the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown domestic violence refuge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14611/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the best route for counselling services to volunteer aid to Ukrainian refugees and to hire incoming skilled workers in this field; if assistance is available to them in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14430/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 1146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans for Killegar forest in the wake of the decision not to sell it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14595/22]
- Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Considering the crippling increases people are seeing in the prices of petrol, diesel and, more generally, fuel and energy, the proposed measures are fairly pathetic. Taxi drivers, about whom I have talked to the Minister many times and who got very little during Covid, are a good example of how we are just going out of the Covid frying pan into the Ukrainian war fire, with its associated...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will be meeting with European leaders in Versailles to discuss the impact, including the economic impacts, of the war in Ukraine. Many people in Europe quietly want to use the war in Ukraine to boost up military spending and make our relationship to NATO a closer one and yet the Taoiseach uses excuses about Europe to say he can do nothing about rising fuel and energy costs...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly what it is doing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been pushing to do this and now it is using the war as an excuse to do it again.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We sell arms to some of these countries.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been protesting about Putin long before the Taoiseach. Our comrades are anti-war protestors in Putin’s prisons at the moment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach joking me?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are the ones selling arms to Saudi Arabia not warmongers?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on. Give me a break.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is shocking.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It sells arms to dictatorships like Saudi Arabia.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he is planning to update the national reform programme for 2022. [11771/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [12792/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The pre-condition for well-being of the people of this country is for them to have a secure, affordable roof over their heads. One of the standing scandals in that regard, besides the abysmal failure of the Government to deliver new public and affordable housing, is the inability to deal with the utter scandal of vacant and derelict properties the length and breadth of the country. They are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the contributors. I am standing in for our health spokesperson, Deputy Gino Kenny, today. I thank all the healthcare workers and those present today for the fantastic work they have done under extremely difficult circumstances. This includes ambulance drivers, porters, nurses, doctors and midwives. Across the whole gamut, they have had a very difficult time. Unfortunately,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank our witnesses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I ask one other question, and Dr. Molloy can then come back with his contribution? I ask our guests to comment on a phenomenon which strikes me. When I hear about the constant overcrowding in our emergency departments, I am simultaneously listening to the radio in the car and hearing advertisements to come to the Beacon or the Blackrock Clinic, etc., to receive emergency care there....