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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard the Taoiseach's responses earlier on the nursing home charges scandal. He defended the strategy that has been pursued by successive governments not to give people what they should be entitled to in respect of the huge outlays they have for nursing home charges. He defended that position and said the Government has never conceded the obligation to pay these charges. If that was the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent phone call with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. [4424/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I noted that those in the Dáil for Leaders' Questions stood for a pause for peace. It is a very good thing that people would stand up and call for world peace. When we look at the horrific conflict that is taking place not only in Ukraine but also in Yemen, Syria, where we have seen the horrors, and many other parts of the world, I do not really understand how we can stand for peace...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not being blasé. It is death or glory though.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [3073/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Davos gathering of billionaires, political elites and multinational corporations that are staggeringly wealthy to discuss the future of the world is sort of nauseating in and of itself but at least it provides the opportunity for groups like Oxfam to highlight gross inequality and wealth and put forward proposals. As I mentioned earlier, and as we have done ever since I have been in this...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, I commend all those who have fought and campaigned, and continue to campaign with the emails they are sending to us in this House and particularly to the Government. They are appealing to it, even at this late stage, to rethink what it is doing and not to deny the survivors of mother and baby homes the closure and justice they deserve. After all they have suffered and been through...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Funchion, Sherlock, Cairns and others for their comments and contributions. For clarity, I want to respond briefly to something Deputy Michael Healy-Rae said. Of course, there were many decent people in the church and State, but there was a system that was official, orchestrated and systematic. It was approved and endorsed at the highest level of the State for most of its...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So did I.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to support Deputy Funchion's amendment. We have enough reason to worry given the Government has set its face against the appeals of survivors and people in this House to not exclude people. It has not provided an explanation for that because we all know the explanation, it would appear, is about penny-pinching on real justice and redress. That is in line with the sort of other...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point has been made by many here, again and again in this debate, and in previous debates. It is tragic and unacceptable that the Government is not willing to acknowledge the central point that is being made. I will take this last opportunity to dramatise the issue for the Minister about why the exclusion is so completely unacceptable, and fails to acknowledge the human reality that the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I agree with the Deputy.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support this proposal. People have waited long enough and there should not be uncertainty over getting a prompt decision. As has been said, we had reports and they were relayed to the Minister here recently. When was it we last discussed this? Was it a few weeks ago? We spoke about people having experienced significant delays in getting their personal information, so there is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are restrictions and regulations on private for-profit companies operating in schools; if so, if he will provide these restrictions and regulations and any decision-making process attached; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5112/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (1 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any allowance for utility bills can be made for those who are hosting refugees in their homes given the rising costs of energy bills and the pressure this is creating for many families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5111/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Tánaiste explain to the public why successive Fianna Fáil- and Fine Gael-led Governments, including many he was a part of, have pursued a systematic strategy over many years of denying rights and entitlements to vulnerable people and to people who have been wronged by the State, often pursuing a very hostile, cynical legal strategy to deny people their rights? Vulnerable...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2001. By the way the report also found, and this is important, that people who had gone to private nursing homes were, in fact, entitled to public nursing home care but none were available to them and they were forced into the private system. The Tánaiste is still saying these people were not entitled to this care when that report made it clear that they were. Another report in 2003...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Tánaiste read this report in 2001? It made very clear that successive Governments, including the one he was part of, knew that the basis on which these charges were being levied had no legal basis. He has gone on to repeat what the Taoiseach said earlier this week about the State still not conceding that people who were in private nursing homes but had medical cards had the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All those pensioners were taxpayers too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was €64 billion for the banks but not for the pensioners.