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- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about genocide?
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste has no response on the genocide.
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have four days from the commencement of the truce to stop the resumption of the massacre and slaughter that Israel has told us it is going to resume as soon as that truce expires. The question to the Government is what it or the international community are going to do to prevent the resumption of the massacre and slaughter that Netanyahu, his ministers and his military commanders have...
- Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has a requirement. What is it going to do? Otherwise it is guilty of allowing the most obscene crime possible, which is genocide, take place.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [51154/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to ask when the referendum will take place on the right to housing that the Government promised, and when it would be inserted into the Constitution. Will it renege on the promise to have that referendum during the course of this Government or will it keep that promise? I have no doubt that the Taoiseach may say - because he has certainly said it in the past - that inserting a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland, overseen by his Department. [51155/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The well-being framework refers to the issue of quality of employment. In that context, I draw the Taoiseach's attention once again to issues that will be discussed later this evening during the debate on the Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023. Deputies from Sinn Féin and the Labour Party and I have put forward amendments to the Bill advocating on behalf of people who work in the arts, such as...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a progress report on Housing for All for which his Department is responsible. [51156/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Jennifer Bray recently did a fact check on the Government's Housing for All progress and it was pretty revealing. She revealed that in 2022, the Government's target for affordable housing was 4,100, but what it actually delivered was 1,757. In fact, it was really less because it had included 750 approvals for the first time buyers scheme, and there was actually only 137 draw-downs. This...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us just press it to a vote.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have had the discussion at length but the Minister is giving an extra €50 million on top of the €100 million that goes to the film industry. Other money is going in as well. We want the film industry to thrive. We want more money to go into it but we do not believe it is right that, despite the perception of the film industry as terribly glamorous, for the vast majority of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: By what year did Mr. Gilvarry say?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to go in five minutes. Could I have five minutes now, if Deputy Conway-Walsh and the Chair do not mind?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that. I want to ask about the banks and the ISIF money. There is €6 billion of the ISIF money in the banks. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That contains the bank shares.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the witnesses remind me how much there was in banks before we started to sell off the shares in the banks that we had nationalised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was about €20 billion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As we sold off those shares did that money just go back to normal Government expenditure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Future Ireland Fund and Infrastructure, Climate and Nature Fund Bill 2023: Discussion (22 Nov 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It came back to central funding. Are we getting dividends from our shares in the banks?