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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Probably a special school.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Councils know.

Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent on advertising with RTÉ by his Department in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [34008/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not have a problem with the Government spending money on genuine public service information with the national broadcaster. As an aside, there is a need, however, to address as a matter of urgency the more general issue of the impact of commercial and advertising on the controversies that have unfolded in RTÉ. It was notable, although not entirely credible, that Noel Kelly was, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could that include people who do not tick those boxes but need help and a place to go? There are people who do not fit into these categories. I welcome the proposal but-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So do I.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his attendance at the European Council on 29 and 30 June 2023. [34009/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nuclear weapons are probably the most monstrous invention of humanity. Coming fairly close behind them are cluster munitions. As the Taoiseach knows, this country was the locale and one of the major promoters of the Convention on Cluster Munitions to ban them, with more than 100 countries signing up to it. Then this weekend we had the spectacle of US President Joe Biden talking about the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [34015/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I, too, want to press the Taoiseach on dates for the referendums on keeping water services and infrastructure in public ownership and on housing, both of which have been promised by the Government. The Government keeps echoing the mantra that housing is its biggest priority. The most severe social crisis facing the country, which it certainly is, is that hundreds of thousands of people, in...

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If you read the statement from the Taoiseach about the issues discussed at the European Council, you might on the face of it say they are reasonable, even admirable, things to be saying, in terms of the justifiable criticism of what Russia has done and is doing in Ukraine and the murder, brutality, kidnapping of children and generally criminal nature of the intervention by Russia’s...

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like the Minister of State to respond to my comments on the shocking double standard of rightly condemning the authoritarian, brutal, murderous and warmongering activities of Putin in Ukraine on the one hand and, on the other, collaborating and having arrangements with regimes that do exactly the same thing. I would like the Minister of State to elaborate on the question of Tunisia,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the extent to which she believes systemic issues such as advertising, commercial pressures and the funding model have negatively impacted on the public service remit of RTÉ and contributed to the controversy that has now emerged in the broadcaster; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34687/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Raidió Teilifís Éireann (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been much public fury about the secret payments in RTÉ, the pay cuts that were not pay cuts, secret accounts and so on. One of the things that has come across very strongly in all of this is how commercial activity and advertising have serious undermined and negatively impacted on the public service remit of RTÉ. Does the Minister agree that is a serious problem that...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, Deputy Gino Kenny will take this slot and I-----

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----will take the Regional Independent Group's time after Sinn Féin's next slot, if that is okay.

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Never.

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group for allowing me to use their time slot and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing that, too. I also thank all the Dáil staff, service officers, ushers, everybody in the canteen and everybody in here who keep us going during the term. I thank them for all their help and their great work, and wish them the best for the next few weeks. The Irish Government...