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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Amnesty International (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a brief supplementary question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Amnesty International (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked one question that was not answered, although I very much appreciate all the answers that were given. I asked whether the apartheid system that has been identified by Amnesty International as being operated by Israel will lead us to the same conclusions as we eventually took in dealing with apartheid in South Africa? The sanctions being called for should be of the same sort as those...
- National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We all know the urgency of retrofitting homes that are badly insulated to protect the climate and lift the financial burden being imposed on families by rising energy costs. As usual with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and, most sadly, the Green Party, the way the scheme is designed means it is, once again, a scheme where the suffering of the poor will subsidise improvements in the lifestyles...
- National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I said it at the end. Tax the-----
- Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is important legislation. Insofar as it seeks to improve the whistleblower regime, its intentions seem laudable enough. The provisions seeking to include volunteers, shareholders, those in administrative management or supervisory bodies, and those who have a work-based relationship that is yet to begin or who are involved in a recruitment process, all seem good. The establishment of...
- Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just reading over the debate in January 2003 in the Oireachtas in advance of the Gulf War when then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, got up and defended what we now know to be an absolute pack of lies told by the US Government, US military intelligence, the British Government and British military intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that did not exist. Brian...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many instances that demonstrate that the equality for people with disabilities to which we signed up with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, is not being delivered. There is one that I want to draw to the Taoiseach's attention and that I ask the Government to address as a matter of urgency. Many people who have mobility problems or...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is more evidence today of the crisis in the health system. Covid shone a light on a hopelessly dysfunctional, fragmented, under-resourced and understaffed health service and brought us to the brink but all that dysfunction, fragmentation and lack of resources and staff is coming back to bite us quickly in the aftermath of the pandemic, especially in the context of emergency departments...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach trust US military intelligence?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has all changed since Iraq, has it?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Americans and British are angels then.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: New computers for the HSE might help.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That was appalling.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department’s Covid-19 and health unit. [7682/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting with the British Prime Minister. [7681/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Eighteen years ago, the British Government was critical in supporting the US Government in telling a pack of lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Those lies were used to justify a murderous war in that country, albeit against the nasty regime of Saddam Hussein. However, the premise of the war a pack of lies that had been recycled by the British Government and the US Government....
- Mobility and Transport Supports for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this very important motion. As has already been said, the question of transport for people with disabilities is absolutely critical. Without a decent transport system, every aspect of their lives is diminished. This includes access to education, employment, a social life and everything. As a result, people with disabilities suffer disproportionately...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No problem. I am glad Deputy Healy-Rae is okay.