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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Referendum Campaigns (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been canvassing for the past four or five weeks and one learns much about what people are saying and thinking on both sides in the course of canvassing. Whatever side people are on, they are overwhelmingly shocked by how vile the imagery is. They are really upset by and very angry about it. I take some consolation from the fact that many who were considering voting "No" will now...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I must say I find this a very useful document, at least as a starting point. There is a lot of useful information put into a very readable form and it is not too long, which will be very helpful for working out what is going on in different Departments. I know that these are sectoral things but among the interesting things that have jumped out at me is the issue of bed days lost through...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, indeed, or felled. The report also indicates whether the figures have risen or fallen. Perhaps it is for the sectoral committees to flesh out or elaborate on the metrics in order to have a net picture. However, here the report gives the figure for the new hectares of forest planted, it does not say how many trees were cut down in the same period, so one cannot see if net afforestation...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We would like to know how many were cut down.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That does not always happen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise a brief point of order on this question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I submitted the exact same question, word for word, as Deputy Martin, which appeared on the Question Paper, and it was refused by the Taoiseach's Department. I contacted the Ceann Comhairle's office which told me it was the Taoiseach's Department that would not allow exactly the same question with exactly the same wording on the paper, and there was back and forth communication on that. A...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely unacceptable. The rules are the rules, and they apply to one and all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is bizarre.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just saying it is bizarre.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach yesterday whether he and the European Union should condemn the shooting of what is now a total of 44 unarmed Palestinian protesters in Gaza in recent weeks by the Israeli forces. I welcome the fact that the Taoiseach condemned it, but really what I want to ask in the context of Europe, Donald Tusk and our role in Europe generally is whether we can move beyond the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee at which communications and media mergers are discussed; and when it last met. [18889/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Media Mergers (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many issues arising from the recent controversy surrounding INM, including the lobbying of the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, and the data breach involving journalists' and barristers' emails. Another issue which to my mind is the most important is the lack of media plurality in this country. The hallmark of any meaningful...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On foot of comments made by Deputy Donnelly yesterday, I want to clarify a point about the 1,482 women. As well as the additional 1,500 women who had cancer diagnoses - and the pretty frightening implications given that 208 women's false negative results missed their cancer - of the original 1,482 only some 400 of those women were included in the audit. Is this correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the witness be as brief as possible because I have a very short time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What flags?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To put it another way, what about the other 1,082?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the time, if Mr. Gleeson allows me to hone my question, is there no possibility that those 1,082 cases not included in the review had false negatives and were victims of the same errors as the 400?