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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: War bonds.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At what point does the Taoiseach think Israel's crimes against the Palestinians reach the threshold of horror and unacceptability that mean it deserves the same sort of sanctions as apartheid South Africa? I ask that because the crimes it has committed are way in excess of even that horrific regime. Long before the genocide of last year, many South African representatives, going right back...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [36721/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [41381/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [43249/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: St. Augustine’s in Blackrock is a school for children with additional needs. It caters for children with those needs from as far north of the city as Santry, the many places in between, Wicklow, the Dún Laoghaire area, which is my area, and other areas of south Dublin. The school is still without two buses to take those children to St. Augustine's, those being the one that comes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The well-being of many, if not most, of our students is not in a good place. The email that Holly, the student nurse from Athlone, sent to all of us is emblematic of the crisis facing many students. She talks about something on which we put a motion forward during Covid, that is, the failure to pay student nurses on placement. You can add to that those in mental health nursing, early...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When we are suffering chronic shortages in so many areas of healthcare, construction and other areas of the economy, why are we not giving these students the support and valuing them in the way they deserve, in the way, for example, they do with student nurses in Scotland and everywhere else in Europe where they do far better for students?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the publication of Understanding Life in Ireland: The Well-Being Framework 2024. [41380/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have repeatedly raised the recruitment embargo by another name that the Government has imposed on the health service, the so-called pay and numbers strategy, which is limiting the ability of hospitals and health services to recruit the staff they need to ensure safe staffing and proper patient safety in the hospitals. The Taoiseach is aware health workers are balloting for industrial...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The hospital remains exactly as it was when the workers first raised this issue - chronically understaffed and not safe for patients.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach look into it or explain?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if it is not staffed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another day, another Israeli massacre in Gaza. Since dawn, another 45 innocents have been slaughtered by this terrorist regime. Almost certainly, the weapons that killed those people came from the United States and possibly travelled through Irish airspace. The US military, which supports all this, is also using our airports. Will the Government give us the debate we asked for about the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement a review of how the HMD form is working across councils to ascertain whether it places too heavy a load on disabled and ill people (the very people it is supposed to help); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42962/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the affordable housing scheme to ensure that these houses are actually affordable, regardless of location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42963/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to implement the recommendations of the Housing Commission report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new resources he will make available to the DRHE in 2025 considering the relentless increase in numbers of people availing of emergency accommodation across the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42965/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Staff (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether section 39 workers funded by her Department can expect to receive the pay increases negotiated at the Workplace Relations Commission with the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43070/24]