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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering a revision to budget 2024, given the context of the wide range of inflation projections for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46960/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2024 (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects to revise funding for any public services in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46958/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he expects to revise his allocation of capital spending across any Departments in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46959/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basis on which he decided to increase capital expenditure by only €250 million in 2024, given the large surpluses in the public finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47028/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Invasive Species Policy (26 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to ban log imports following the confirmation of the spruce bark beetle (ips typographus) in Scotland; if so, the date he will bring in the ban; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47172/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Again and again, the Taoiseach has proclaimed the Government's commitment to international law. In front of the world's eyes, Israel is committing actions that fit the definitions of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide as defined in the Rome Statute. Is the Taoiseach going to do anything about that? The Government could take a case. I met the Spanish social protection...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not know that at all.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach take a case? Will he take a case?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am next.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I attended the demonstration in London two weeks ago. For British political and government figures to call it thuggish is absolutely outrageous. It was an entirely peaceful demonstration and the thought that there would be efforts to deter people from protesting or even banning them is absolutely outrageous. One of the things that protesters here and in Britain on that day and at all of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do they have the right, through military means, to defend themselves against a siege, against occupation and against the killing of thousands of Palestinians by Israel over the past number of years?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Under international law, they do but it seems that nobody seems to want to accord them that right.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach his views on the recently published annual report of his Department. [43877/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach referred to the Government's commitment to promote biodiversity and address the climate crisis. I would like to take the opportunity to mention the sudden, unexpected and tragic death of Andrew St. Ledger of The Woodland League in the past week. I am not sure if the Taoiseach is familiar with Andrew but he would have been involved in the environmental pillar and, most notably,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where has the peace process been for the last 25 years?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hostages. That is what they are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It worked with South Africa.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [46435/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A point I have made to the Taoiseach many times is that for people who are working and whose income exceeds the social housing threshold, the only available option is a cost-rental home. However, the delivery of cost-rental homes is very small at the moment and, therefore, people who find themselves in housing difficulty and who are working and over the thresholds, or in quite a few cases...

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has indicated there may be war crimes being committed by Israel in Gaza. Most people have no doubt they are being committed because they are happening right in front of us and, critically, Israel is not hiding it. Leading ministers and military personnel have publicly declared their intention to commit war crimes - to starve the entire population of water, food, gas and...