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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 430. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what recourse an employee has when the regulations on the right to sit in SI. No. 358/1995 are not being adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57322/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 815. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 6 July 2023, whether the statistical data referred to in relation to the tenant-in-situ scheme has been published yet; if not, when it will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to remedy the adverse effects made to households by vegetation from public and private lands, including the obstruction of natural light; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56639/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Undefined (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1093. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1371/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the decision of the Government, albeit belated, to concede to a debate on Gaza that we asked for. I object that the Government motion in this has only come out in the past 20 minutes or so and we have been given five minutes from now to put in amendments. This is completely unacceptable, especially given the failure of the Government to accede to the request of those concerned...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the left who criticise Israel for apartheid are somehow guilty of antisemitism.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his Department’s new publication entitled Government Response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2023. [53909/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Contrary to mainstream economic theory, all wealth in our society is generated by workers. It is very obvious now that we are chronically short of the skills and workers we need in a whole range of areas, including construction, the health service, teaching, bus drivers and hospitality; you name it. Of course, the reason we are short is that it is unaffordable for tens of thousands of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just ban them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a lot of issues that will have to be dealt with in the Covid inquiry but certain things are beyond question. The Irish health service is operating at near 100% capacity. Most countries in Europe operate at about 80% to 85%. If we are hit with further public health emergencies or major accidents, unless we have a buffer within our health system, which means additional capacity so...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because they ripped it apart.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Church-State Relations (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Saint John of God Community Services is facing a funding crisis. The organisation has informed me that a meeting of the board is taking place this Thursday. If the €32 million deficit, which the HSE and the Government were supposed to address, and additional funding is not made available, it will not be able to provide services. We need to understand there are 8,000 children in its...

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it did not.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it did not.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fact.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was our idea; it was the Opposition's proposal.

Conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is trying to deliberately mislead the public and this House about its shameful failure to discharge its responsibilities under the genocide convention. On 22 November, People Before Profit tabled a motion in the Dáil through which we appealed to the Government to discharge its responsibilities under the convention, which I remind the Government are not about holding...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion on housing. I do not think we need to pore over the litany of failures of the Government. The facts and reality speak for themselves in terms of the catastrophic situation we are now facing with the human misery the housing and home crisis is inflicting. There are record numbers of people in emergency accommodation. People are absolutely...