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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ursula von der Leyen is directly complicit with the genocidal massacre that Israel has committed in Gaza over the past seven months. She greenlit the massacre and she should be unceremoniously sacked. People should state publicly that she should not remain as the President of the EU Commission. They should say publicly, "Ursula von der Leyen; sack her." Say publicly she should be sacked...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not, actually.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am against its current direction.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has good environmental directives.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on his most recent communications with his European counterparts in relation to imposing sanctions on Israel in light of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that there is a plausible case that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20911/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope it is clear at this stage that there is no level of atrocity that Israel is not willing to commit against the Palestinian people. It should have been clear long before now for a state that was built on ethnic cleansing on an ongoing basis, on apartheid and on a 17-year-long siege of Gaza, but now, when we look at the massacre in Gaza, it should be clear. Under the genocide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit put a motion to the Dáil in November of last year asking the Government to take a case against Israel for genocide under the ICJ and it voted against it. Now, belatedly, because South Africa did what Ireland should have done, the Government is saying there will be some class of intervention. I suppose later is better than not at all, but when we consider the horror...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been campaigning for Palestinian rights since I was there in 1987 - I lived there - and my position has been very consistent over a very long time, as has been the movement in this country of solidarity with Palestine. My position is that, in relation to the apartheid state of Israel, we need to do what was done to the apartheid state of South Africa. A state based on apartheid and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Dunnes Stores workers played a big role.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And a free Palestine.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hamas was not even around in 1987. It did not even exist.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is not interested.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The boycott precipitated it.

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The 50th anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings will occur on 17 May. The families of the victims of the bombings are still looking for truth and justice. A film documentary opens tomorrow, which again looks at those bombings and the murders. The producer of the film "Anatomy of a Massacre" is in the Public Gallery. I met him and a relative of one of the victims. I refer to Cathy...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit requested this debate at a meeting of the Business Committee. We are glad it is happening. We requested it because, like everybody else, we are being inundated by families who are concerned for the welfare of their children. It is clear that the State - the Government - is failing children with additional needs and disabilities. That is an unacceptable moral failure...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 511. To ask the Minister for Health whether injections for osteoporosis with the medication festeo are still reimbursable for medical card holders; to provide a rationale for their removal if these injections are no longer available for medical card holders; what recourse medical card holders who have previously required such injections have if they have been removed from the list of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been in contact with the German government about the suppression of the Irish language and other forms of censorship in relation to protests in Germany against genocide and Israel’s actions in Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20912/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach boasted earlier about the increased construction of housing under his Government. What he is not acknowledging is that the majority of what is being delivered is completely unaffordable. We get 10% social housing on private developments. The rest is unaffordable rents and unaffordable house prices and the result is record homelessness, particularly egregiously for families...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been promised for weeks. Can we have it soon?

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the recent special meeting of the European Council. [20459/24]