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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the same in Yemen.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is selling arms to the Saudi dictatorship. The Taoiseach does not want to mention that. It is embarrassing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach certainly does.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [12791/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, this is International Women's Day. In this country, church organisations have played a pretty terrible role, historically, in their treatment of women and their denial of rights to women. This is something we have begun to overcome with the successful campaigns to repeal the eighth amendment, for marriage equality and so forth. Yet, it is still the intention of this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is land right beside the hospital. Use a compulsory purchase order.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why should a religious body own it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They then wait 20 years for a building.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [12792/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The pre-condition for well-being of the people of this country is for them to have a secure, affordable roof over their heads. One of the standing scandals in that regard, besides the abysmal failure of the Government to deliver new public and affordable housing, is the inability to deal with the utter scandal of vacant and derelict properties the length and breadth of the country. They are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he is planning to update the national reform programme for 2022. [11771/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will be meeting with European leaders in Versailles to discuss the impact, including the economic impacts, of the war in Ukraine.  Many people in Europe quietly want to use the war in Ukraine to boost up military spending and make our relationship to NATO a closer one and yet the Taoiseach uses excuses about Europe to say he can do nothing about rising fuel and energy costs...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly what it is doing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been pushing to do this and now it is using the war as an excuse to do it again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We sell arms to some of these countries.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been protesting about Putin long before the Taoiseach.  Our comrades are anti-war protestors in Putin’s prisons at the moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach joking me?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are the ones selling arms to Saudi Arabia not warmongers?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on. Give me a break.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is shocking.