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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with his European Union counterparts on the increased tensions between Russia and Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3930/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the recent uprising in Kazakhstan with his counterparts in Europe; if he will report on his discussions in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3927/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consult with the National Transport Authority and a company (details supplied) to review the bus timetables of the services 59 and 111 serving Dalkey, Loughlinstown, Killiney and Dún Laoghaire to include a service that caters for school children attending schools, in view of the fact that there is currently no...

Youth Mental Health: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The scandal that has been revealed in Kerry, involving overmedication, losing files and children and young people with mental health issues not being looked after properly, is not at all unique to Kerry. In 2018, psychiatrists in Wexford, including the consultant in CAMHS, resigned, saying the service was totally unsafe. Dr. Sharma said he was sidelined because he expressed concerns about...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions. I have charged that the Government is betraying our tradition of neutrality. It did that with regard to Shannon and regarding numerous US military adventures. It is doing it again. It rightly criticises Russia for what it is doing off our coast with military exercises that are unwanted and should stop - Russia should be told we do not want them - and for Russia's...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In Ukraine it is highly divisive, and the Minister of State knows it.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I may finish, to put to bed-----

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Minister of State or the Taoiseach. I wish to put to bed the nonsense that Government Deputies come out with. I cannot put it more baldly. They would not put it as baldly as that.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were out criticising what the Russians were doing in Kazakhstan last week, and there is not much action from the Government on that. I stood at many a protest over what the Russians did in Chechnya and the carnage they inflicted there and I did not see Members opposite there, so they should not try to confuse the issue. While I object absolutely to the Russians' massing troops on the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are supposed to be a neutral country but the way in which the Government is articulating its position on the dangerous brinkmanship and escalation by two major military political blocs - NATO and Russia - suggests that, for the Government at least, there is no question of being neutral or objective but that the Irish Government is taking sides.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ironically, the Government suggests - obviously, the Taoiseach does not understand the position of socialists on this - that we are reluctant to criticise Russia.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State really does not listen, does he? Let me put it as baldly as I can. Putin is a thug over an autocratic, nasty, militarist and imperial-looking regime.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to see Government information flowing in respect of two areas with the sort of frequency and sophistication that we saw around Covid announcements. I note there is a Government of Ireland document entitled Be Winter Ready. We discussed at length the question of fuel energy price hikes. Notwithstanding the debate around all of that, there is a real danger of people on low...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Global Ireland: Ireland's Global Footprint to 2025 puts much emphasis on our culture, arts and heritage but most of its initiatives are essentially about punting our reputation around the world. I am not saying there is anything wrong with them but we are not doing what we should be doing, which is to nurture and support those who produce the art, literature, music, film and so on. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The mother and baby home regime was organised abuse of mothers and children by the church and State. They have been cruelly let down time and again by the State. The commission report was an absolute travesty, as I said from the start, in that it failed to take on board in a serious way, and give way to, the voices of the survivors. However, the leak was a disgrace. Government spin came...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On many issues this Government talks a good game but is not so good at delivering. Delivering new schools and the actual buildings for those schools is one spectacular failure in that regard. Under the online patronage process system, the Department of Education is due to deliver 47 schools between 2019 and 2022. I would like to know how many of them have actual sites and buildings....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. It relates to a promise that the Government would deliver these schools.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dún Laoghaire Educate Together National School has a site but no building. The proposed Sallynoggin-Killiney Educate Together national school has no site and no building. Gaelscoil Laighean is still waiting on a permanent site. The Red Door School, a special school, has been operating in prefabs for over a decade. Gaelscoil Phádraig has spent 20 years in prefabs waiting for a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Gaelscoil Phádraig has been waiting 20 years.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is called advance planning.