Results 22,561-22,580 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For the next two weeks, People Before Profit and others will be doing everything to urge people to get out in their many thousands on the streets of Dublin on the Saturday after next for the Raise the Roof housing protest. One of the components of that protest will be people from places such as Tathony House, another multi-unit apartment complex in Rathmines, St. Helen's Court in my own...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not doing it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are looking for excuses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are using the income thresholds as excuses not to do it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service unit of his Department. [54841/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the most depressing aspects of being a Deputy is dealing with the hardship and despair of people suffering from the housing crisis and the fact that they just do not know what to do. This week, I had two families in tears in my clinic. They felt absolutely hopeless owing to the prospect of their being made homeless with their children. They were worrying about the mental health...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not respond to my question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the senior officials group chaired by his Department to provide a strategic overview of the implementation of the sustainable development goals. [54840/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The SDGs are an internationally agreed set of progressive goals and aspiration. Goal 16 relates to justice, strong institutions and access to same. I put it to the Taoiseach that the Government's commitment to CETA threatens access to justice. He should not throw sand in people's eyes with talk about who is for free trade or trade generally. I am for fair trade, by the way, rather than...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fine but we do not need this body standing above normal institutions for justice and favouring multinational companies and threaten access to justice for ordinary people.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the high-level steering board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, to oversee the implementation of the high-level action plan for the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. [54842/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The decision of the Putin regime to sanction the Taoiseach and other Ministers is a further worrying sign about what is happening to our reputation as a neutral country. It has implications for our Defence Forces whose safety when deployed on missions is also linked to our reputation as a neutral country. We all condemn Putin's bloody war and the escalation we are seeing at the moment....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are now seen as protagonists.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have respect as a neutral country.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying the Taoiseach is now a protagonist in a war.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Except in Palestine, western Sahara, or Saudi-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Defence Forces (16 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These are consistent principles.