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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And those complicit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the published third meeting of the cross-government network on child poverty and well-being. [23997/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all very well setting up a committee to deal with child poverty and welfare but it has to do something. The Taoiseach said he wants to give children the best start in life - absolutely. One of things that guarantees they do not have a good start in life is if they are homeless or they are facing the prospect of being homeless. A total of 4,170 children are in emergency accommodation,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government was written when we were coming out of the Covid pandemic. Much of it dealt with economic recovery and the impact of Covid on particular groups of workers. One group that I campaigned and advocated for very strongly was taxi drivers. They last two years of work at the time. Following pleas from the taxi drivers, the Government conceded that those with cars...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will be opposing the Government motion on the migration and asylum impact and the pact itself, not for the reasons that some in this House may put forward but because we believe the European Union and, sadly, our own Government are beginning to make concessions to anti-immigrant hysteria and to the scapegoating of immigrants by the far right in a dangerous way that is not...

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward this motion on the hospitality and tourism sector. We are all aware of the employment contribution this sector generates and its importance to our wider economy and to many local areas. In Dún Laoghaire, we have many small businesses such as coffee shops, restaurants, independent food retail outlets and so on, many of which...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (18 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Taoiseach to clarify whether the Barron inquiry was in receipt of all relevant files relating to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings; and any files that related to suspected perpetrators of those bombings. [25818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is the case that currently, to receive the full State pension (contributory), a person requires 980 A1 stamps, equivalent to 20 years full-time work, but that as of 2034 (that is, those born after 1 January 1968), the requirement will increase to 2,100 A1 stamps, equivalent to 45 years full-time work; the rationale for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will outline, following the recent 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, the engagements she has had with the families and survivors of the bombings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26525/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions she has taken to support the families and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in their campaign for justice and truth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26528/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans in relation to assisting the families and survivors of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings in their campaign for justice and truth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26526/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all files in possession of her Department relating to the Dublin and Monaghan bombings will be released to the families and survivors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26527/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, we have just passed the 50th anniversary of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, where 34 people were murdered and 258 injured in an atrocious bombing carried out by loyalists, almost certainly with the collusion of the British state or elements of it. Families and victims are still fighting for justice. The question is about the Government and the State's responsibility...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt the British Government has a lot of questions to answer, and I think most people believe it does not want to answer them because of the extent of British state collusion with the people who carried out the Dublin and Monaghan bombings and, indeed, other massacres carried out by the Glenanne gang. The Irish Government, however, has very serious questions to answer as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds like the families will never be given the files, will never be given an explanation and will never get the truth and justice they deserve. It is shocking beyond belief that the families and survivors of this atrocity were put under Garda surveillance. They are entitled to know who ordered that, what files were generated on foot of that and why it was done. The original...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of Sophie Cole, I ask the Tánaiste to have the assault leave scheme amended urgently. I do not know if the Tánaiste knows Sophie. She is a former SNA who was assaulted and injured in the course of her work in November 2022. She has been left with lifelong injuries and in excruciating pain. The financial implications of this situation have seen Sophie and her husband...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is shocking that someone can be left with lifelong injuries-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while working for the State and suffer dire financial consequences, as well as the medical impact suffered.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Tánaiste look at this issue urgently?

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." We initiated this Bill last year, 2023, in response to ten interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank, ECB, which impacted tens of thousands of mortgage holders in this country. These are working people who are trying to put a roof over their heads and they were hammered again and again by interest rate hikes by the European...