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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the public respond to the Government's cold-hearted decision to lift the eviction ban by coming out in their thousands on the demonstration on 1 April outside the Dáil. I genuinely want to know what the Minister has to say to people in my area where currently there is no family emergency accommodation at all. For his information, there is a six-month waiting list. If people...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it in place now?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [12855/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The attitude of the DUP to the Windsor Framework and the Stormont brake, which was a major concession to the party, just shows that it will do absolutely anything to cling onto the sectarian bandwagon and maintain the sectarian status quo. When we see that, does it not suggest that if we need a force that can challenge the sectarianism the DUP seeks to perpetuate, the place to look is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department. [12856/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Friends of the Earth report, which is still left out in the cold, is just the latest report we have, either from environmental or anti-poverty groups, that points out the grant system for retrofit is massively skewed in favour of the well-off and is of little, if any, use to low-income households, particularly those in the private rented sector, although similar things could be said about...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not a Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework. [11606/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If well-being and quality of life are to mean anything, they must surely mean that people have some security about the place where they live. I do not see how someone can possibly have either of those things if they do not have security about where they live. The Government's decision to lift the eviction ban means approximately 750,000 people in rented accommodation in this country have...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is running late.

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. It is already clear that the Government has no respect whatsoever for any decision that this House might make to maintain an eviction ban as we in the Opposition wish to do because it has already ignored a Bill that was passed four weeks ago by People Before Profit, calling for the maintenance of the eviction ban for as long as the housing...

Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent engagements with church leaders. [12857/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government commits to ensuring we develop an education system that serves everybody, whatever religion they are or if they have no religion whatsoever, and that commits to advancing the divestment programme. As we know, currently 90% of schools are in the hands of the Catholic Church. The schools run with their ethos, which is hardly appropriate for a country that is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the International Women's Day protest, one of the biggest issues of concern to people was the housing crisis. We have had extensive debate about the Government's decision to lift the eviction ban. One of the features of those who are going into homelessness is how many of them are women and children and the impact that has on children. I will give the Taoiseach an example. What are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach have any answer to my question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [12863/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I found the Taoiseach's answer to my previous question rather evasive. I will frame the question again. It is not just about the individual case; it is about how that case epitomises the failure of the Government to understand what is going on or its wilful denial of what is going on. What is not particularly specific to this case is that there is somebody trapped in homeless...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am finished.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The barbarism and criminality of Vladimir Putin is plain to see and he should be investigated and prosecuted for his undoubted war crimes and crimes against humanity. Of course, an incredible irony is at work when Joe Biden also suggests that is a good idea, given he represents a country that refuses to accept the jurisdiction of the ICC, possibly...