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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It sells arms to dictatorships like Saudi Arabia.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his plans in relation to third-level and post-graduate fees; if these fees will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12872/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it makes sense to maintain financial or other barriers to accessing all levels of further and higher education and that all such barriers should be removed including the leaving certificate given the significant skills shortages in a range of areas such as health, mental health, construction, education and others; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on new plans for training and apprenticeship places in all trades that are needed to ramp up the supply of housing across the country; the role that local authorities might play in this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12871/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of his plans to support and subsidise further education students to ensure that poverty does not deter them from continuing their education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12874/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the current plans for student accommodation are providing affordable accommodation for third-level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12875/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Considering the crippling increases people are seeing in the prices of petrol, diesel and, more generally, fuel and energy, the proposed measures are fairly pathetic. Taxi drivers, about whom I have talked to the Minister many times and who got very little during Covid, are a good example of how we are just going out of the Covid frying pan into the Ukrainian war fire, with its associated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the contributors. I am standing in for our health spokesperson, Deputy Gino Kenny, today. I thank all the healthcare workers and those present today for the fantastic work they have done under extremely difficult circumstances. This includes ambulance drivers, porters, nurses, doctors and midwives. Across the whole gamut, they have had a very difficult time. Unfortunately,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank our witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I ask one other question, and Dr. Molloy can then come back with his contribution? I ask our guests to comment on a phenomenon which strikes me. When I hear about the constant overcrowding in our emergency departments, I am simultaneously listening to the radio in the car and hearing advertisements to come to the Beacon or the Blackrock Clinic, etc., to receive emergency care there....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The world is rightly expressing its utter outrage and revulsion at the despotism and warmongering of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. I have asked at the Business Committee for the Government to facilitate a debate as a matter of urgency on a crisis every bit as horrific, involving Saudi Arabia and Yemen, where the UN recently reported there are now 13 million people on the brink of starvation....

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Healthcare workers put themselves on the front line for all of us during the two years, and more, of the pandemic. They are now overrun again. There are record numbers on hospital trolleys and further surges in Covid. On 19 January the Tánaiste proposed that €1,000 would be given to each healthcare worker. This week, I had several representations from healthcare workers to say...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The world is disgusted and revolted at what Vladimir Putin is doing, his bloody invasion and the imperialist logic behind it. Rightly, people's hearts go out to the people of Ukraine and they want to show all the solidarity they can. The best hope is that the resistance of the Ukrainian people, alongside the opposition of the Russian people to this...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Bríd Smith, Paul Murphy and Barry. We are happy to support the Sinn Féin motion on energy price increases and the proposed measures, but we also will move an amendment to the motion that the Government needs to use the powers it has under the Consumer Protection Act to put caps on prices to declare an emergency in respect of the supply of energy and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While the people of this country are showing extraordinary solidarity and generosity in terms of the terrible suffering of the Ukrainian people, they are simultaneously being crucified by the spiralling costs of living, electricity and gas prices, energy prices and so on. The latest bad news in that regard is the ESRI report that the rate of inflation will hit 8.7% this summer. People's...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point I am making is that collectively, the Irish Government and the European and American Governments do have the power. It is a power that was used during the Second World War, whereby profiteering was stopped and the State took control of energy and other vital supplies in order to control prices. Under the current regime, even if we do develop more renewable energy it will not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say we are self-sufficient. I said that the Government has the power to intervene.

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We believe the time is right and appropriate to have a referendum to let the people of this country make a decision, which is what this Bill is doing. We want to put our traditional military neutrality, which this and successive Governments have tried to undermine, into the Constitution so it is absolutely guaranteed and secured, and to stop the very concerted push by successive Governments...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim: “Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha.” I move: “That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."