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Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is additional.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "acknowledges: — that the State failed the women and children who were in Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes institutions; — that women and their children were separated through coercion and/or force, often unlawfully, during their time in these...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nothing will turn people off the climate action agenda that we need to urgently undertake more than big corporations, wealthy individuals and political elites lecturing ordinary people about their personal culpability for the climate crisis. I warn the Government that if it does not break from that reliance, it will turn people away from the climate agenda. It will alienate people. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly agree that the commission of investigation format is not working. The delays and costs involved are inordinate and often by the end of the process, a lot of people are left wondering what it was all about in the first place. There is an air of Dickens's Jarndyce and Jarndyce about a lot of these commissions. I refer to the report of the Commission of Investigation into...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past number of weeks, I and others have raised the designation of six human rights organisations and NGOs, including quite a number that receive funding from the EU, as terrorists by Israel. I am sure the Taoiseach has received representations from various Palestinian groups and others on this as well. This is clearly an attempt to, essentially, make illegal any organisation that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about sanctions?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international and European Union division of his Department. [55797/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Budget Process (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the social impact assessments carried out by his Department and public bodies and agencies under his remit since 1 January 2016. [55796/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Budget Process (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked repeatedly, for about five years now, for a review of the income thresholds for eligibility for social housing. Is there any assessment being done of the effect of not raising those thresholds? As I said to the Taoiseach last week, as well as to the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, I am now dealing with two families in homeless accommodation who are going to be evicted from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Budget Process (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the case of another family, the mother is a care worker and cannot even take a promotion that is going in her organisation because, if she did, she would be thrown off the list.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Budget Process (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In any event, she is now being told she is off the list and may be evicted from her homeless accommodation.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I asked the Taoiseach to reopen applications for the PUP for those hit by the new public health measures and he declined to commit to that. Over the weekend, the work available to taxi drivers has gone over a cliff because of the night-time curfews and people pulling back and listening to the public health advice. Offices not going into work on Monday has further decimated the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So what, musicians should get a job in a bar. Is that it?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is those affected by the pandemic.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Bríd Smith could not get tested all day yesterday.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we extend it with questions? That would be helpful.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is not.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach add questions to the Minister to the end of the debate?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to urgently address the issue of testing and we need the Minister in here to discuss it. People cannot get a PCR test for love nor money in Dublin. People are hours and hours on the website, if they can get an appointment at all. People are talking about antigen tests being free, and they should be, but we need PCR testing and we need walk-in PCR testing to be available. The...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference. [55798/21]