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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (3 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the role he and his Department have had in the imposition of the recruitment embargo in the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29518/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach and Tánaiste have lost all interest in the budget. I suspect the wider public have lost interest anyway because they realise through bitter experience it will not make much difference to the real issues that affect their lives. I will not go through an exhaustive list of what is not there or what we would have done instead. People can read our alternative budget...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not in favour of military escalation of this by any side but I will not engage in "on the one hand, on the other hand."

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Somebody is responsible for all of this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Somebody is responsible for all of this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will tell the Taoiseach who is responsible. It is the State of Israel that invaded Lebanon in 1982, invaded it in 1996, invaded it in 2006 and invaded it again in 2024.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach remember Shatila and Sabra where they collaborated with the Christian Phalange to kill hundreds of people in Palestinian refugee camps in 1982, the decades-long ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, an illegal occupation now under international law, the illegal occupation of Gaza and the 17-year siege of Gaza, which is a war crime? These are the roots of the conflict. We can...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or its complicity in those crimes-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in giving it impunity for genocide, illegal occupation and apartheid. I will finish by saying there is a national demonstration at 1 o'clock this Saturday-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in solidarity with Palestine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Believe me, they are very critical of this Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not the United States which gives-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel's ongoing genocidal, year-long massacre in Gaza and now its savage assault on Lebanon have triggered a terrifying escalation of conflict and violence that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. It is worth saying that the state that is guilty of this massacre in Gaza and that is attacking Lebanon has nuclear weapons and has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will see. Why does the Government still refuse to pass that Bill? Why does it not ban all overflights of weapons being carried by Israel? The Government denied that such flights were happening but now we know that they were happening in Irish airspace. Why does it not ban all flights carrying weapons through Shannon Airport? Why does it refuse to condemn the United States for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the US military to use Shannon when it is up to its neck in the crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza and Lebanon and which are now threatening to escalate into an all-out regional war?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, rather than moving the Ukrainian families from a location (details supplied), he will engage with the owners who would like to continue to accommodate these families and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39174/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I contacted the Minister some time ago about this case. On 7 October, 29 residents, including ten children, six family groups and two additional married couples, all of whom are Ukrainians fleeing the war and are living in a former commercial building in the Blackrock-Stillorgan area, will have to leave. They have been there since Christmas 2022. The children are at school, many, if not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a deadline looming and what we are doing about it is not clear to the community people supporting the residents and the residents because it is next Monday. It is very instructive to look at who these residents are in terms of the employment in which they are engaged. One is a pharmacist assistant, one is a lab worker in UCD, one is a construction worker, one is a carpenter, one is...