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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be noted that the camera went off for my entire contribution. That was very odd because my camera was on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not on the television feed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that but it is not the point I am making.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My camera went off during my contribution for some bizarre reason.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is interesting, though.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach might look into the ultraviolet plant as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [24248/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The National Economic and Social Council has regularly referred to the issue of water quality and the need to address the very poor levels of water quality as a result of the discharge in multiple locations across this country of untreated sewage. In my area of Dún Laoghaire alone, untreated sewage goes into Dublin Bay at 11 points. I see the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree that we clearly have to find a cost-effective and more efficient way to deal with these important matters of public interest. While we absolutely have to do that, it should not deter us from facilitating necessary investigations into injustices or serious matters of public concern. In the context of the current housing crisis and the debates about that situation, we need to look at...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am simply saying that there are many issues that require proper investigation. The model we need to look at is one of independent public inquiries, rather than these commissions of investigation, which end up as a festival of moneymaking for legal people.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When it comes to the housing crisis, I am afraid the Taoiseach is living in a parallel universe. Every single day, evidence of the disastrous consequences of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil policies piles up. In the past few weeks, there has been evidence about cuckoo funds pricing ordinary working people out of being able to buy homes. Yesterday, evidence emerged of rents rising across the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For 15 years I have been campaigning to get public and affordable housing on the Shanganagh prison site, so the Taoiseach should not say that we do not want affordable housing. Fianna Fáil- and Fine Gael-controlled councils in our area have not seen one sod turned and now the Government wants to hand it over to the LDA. People need to read the Bill. The only mention of social housing...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want the Government to sell off the public land bank.
- Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think and, I hope, that when the names of taoisigh, tánaistí and Deputies who were in office over the past year have been long forgotten, the memory, inspiration and the legend of what the Debenhams workers have done over the past 15 months will still echo through the annals of working-class history. I have no doubt people will be singing songs, reciting poems and writing plays...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Registration of Births (12 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for a delay in processing the foreign birth registration of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24726/21]
- Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for using its Private Members' time to raise this important issue. The Government has learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous mistakes that have led to the current housing crisis. The two mistakes were the disastrous decision to invite in the vulture funds, cuckoo funds and speculators, particularly in 2013 and 2014, and the simultaneous and equally...
- Europe Day: Statements (11 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier, the Taoiseach said that what defined the European Union was that it is an institution based on the idea of rules-based international co-operation. He argued that the European Union is a bulwark against extremism. Let us test that proposition against the EU's relationship with Israel on the day that Israel is, once again, committing war crimes in Gaza. As we speak, it is launching...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (11 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21778/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (11 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also think it is beyond despicable that the Stardust families are not being given legal aid. The Taoiseach should address that as a matter of absolute urgency because the families have been through enough and do not need further obstacles put in the way of their pursuit of justice. I wish to raise a matter I have raised with the Taoiseach a number of times, that is, the plight of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Late in the day as it is and hollow sounding as it is, will the Taoiseach's claim that housing is now the Government's priority lead to any actual change in the disastrous policy that has led us to the housing crisis we are experiencing? There seems to be a grudging acknowledgement of what an absolute disaster Fine Gael and Labour made by allowing these vulture funds to come in and take over...