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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was a disgraceful comment.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a shocking comment regarding the jackboot.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So do we.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was disgraceful that it was said we were Putin's puppets.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we did not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not on that. It is convenient for you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the weekend, President Higgins rang the alarm bells about the dangerous drift in Ireland's foreign policy away from neutrality and raised concerns about the composition of the Government's consultative forum. The President has to be somewhat constrained and diplomatic in what he says. However, what he said echoes what we have been trying to say for the past number of months, namely,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any fair-minded person who looks at this will see it is dripping and stacked to the rafters with pro-NATO people and people associated with the military-industrial complex. For example, there is not a single speaker from the Non-Aligned Movement. For people's information, that is the biggest movement of states in the world that do not associate or identify with the big military powers,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [29534/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Data (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland, overseen by his Department. [29535/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Data (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Monday, a young woman with her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, both of whom are homeless, came into me and said they had nowhere to go. I got into the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and in fairness, it responded quickly and they got a placement. Then I got a text from the young woman saying the place was not the best and was absolutely manky. It stated the cooker was in reach of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Equality Issues (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department’s public sector duty equality and human rights assessment. [29536/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Equality Issues (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many disturbing and unacceptable aspects to the homelessness crisis but undoubtedly one of the worst of them is the number of children living in homeless situations. It is difficult to overstate how much the State is letting down children who have to endure emergency accommodation and homelessness, particularly for long periods. I have raised multiple times in here the case of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Members of the Irish Wheelchair Association, IWA, including staff and wheelchair users, were protesting outside today. They may still be there. I strongly urge the Taoiseach to look at its pre-budget submission. All of the wheelchair users I spoke said they feel abandoned and they are not getting the income supports they need to deal with the additional costs of disability, which the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first progress report for the first quarter of 2023 of the climate action plan. [29543/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, climate change, among other things, results in extreme weather events. One impact and consequence that is becoming apparent in my area, and in other areas with swimming spots around Dublin Bay, is that when we get these torrential downpours the pumping stations that deal with foul water overflow. The good weather of the past week or so has meant thousands of people...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A very good People Before Profit policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Ringsend - the swimming?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the swimming?