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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In July, the HSE announced that there was a lifting of a recruitment embargo for the health services. That announcement was a deception. How do I know? It is because over the past number of weeks, I have had multiple calls from people at different grades and in departments in St. Michael's Hospital saying that a staff quota has been imposed. This means maternity and sick leave is not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is worse. The IMO says it is worse.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I say to the Taoiseach that there are no red lines for Israel. There is no atrocity it will not commit or horror it will not perpetrate. The latest one is by any definition an act of reckless, murderous state terrorism. This is the evil genius of getting thousands of pagers and putting explosives inside the pagers and then simultaneously detonating them all over Lebanon and parts of Syria....

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Apple ruling confirms Governments colluded systematically over more than a decade with the efforts of Apple to avoid tax and deprive the people of €14 billion when they were on their knees being crucified with austerity. It is worth remembering that in 2013, we were also starting the process of getting rid of the biggest property portfolio in the world via NAMA and selling it off...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Either you can meet the targets or you cannot.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the new measures and investment she is proposing to expand and improve the provision of grassroots sports facilities, in particular to address the significant deficit in the provision of sports and playing pitches, as we approach the budget, and in the aftermath of Ireland's success in the Olympics and Paralympics, and the growing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a welcome move by the Government to add a new leaving certificate subject - drama, film and theatre studies. A problem is that many people who might take up that subject and go on to study in college will face poverty and precarity when they-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I thought it was with one of the later questions. There is a chronic deficit of pitches and playing facilities across the country. There has been a welcome expansion in participation in sport, particularly in women's sport, but everywhere - certainly in my area - there is a dire deficit of all-weather pitches, pitches generally, decent facilities, facilities with showers and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were very proud in our area that Monkstown Boxing Club had one of its boxers, Jack Marley, participate in the heavyweight division of the Olympic Games. The area was very proud and it is a fantastic community club. Does the Minister of State know how long it has been fighting for a permanent facility? It has been for about three decades. It is one of the most inclusive, community-based...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad to hear the positive response. The whole borough of Dún Laoghaire, and indeed the whole country, was very proud of Jack Marley but also of many others of our Olympians and Paralympians. We need to really support and resource them. There is not a proactive approach towards this issue in a lot of the local authorities. I will take Sallynoggin Pearse for example. Again,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, given Ireland's success at the 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, she agrees there is a need for a significant increase in public investment in grassroots sports, playing pitches, facilities and sports clubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37009/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State could share the time among us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mentioned earlier the tremendous success of Jack Marley in the Olympic Games and, previously, in winning gold and silver at European level. I should also mention Robin O'Reilly, who is 14, also from Monkstown Boxing Club. She started boxing when she was ten and has just won a bronze medal at European level. The important thing about that is that success is down to a club that was built...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dick Shakespeare was my manager in UCD when we won the Collingwood Cup in soccer. He has an interest in soccer and I am glad to hear that positive response in Dublin city. That needs to be generalised everywhere. There has also got to be a focus on clubs which have a particular community remit. It is not just about the high performance stuff, although that can be important, as we have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Local authorities should not be so controlling when we are talking about the development of facilities.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite the Minister's claims of success and his promises and commitments, while the Dáil was in recess the human misery resulting from the housing and homelessness crisis continued and escalated. Given that the Housing Commission and now the Central Bank have told us that the Government's plan, Housing for All, provides for approximately half of what is necessary to deal with the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----with no prospect of being able to afford the private rents that are out there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been campaigning on the Shanganagh site, which the Minister will open tomorrow, for 18 years. It has taken us 18 years to develop a public site to deliver 600 social and affordable houses. At that rate, we are facing a grim and long housing crisis. By the way, we still do not know what the price of the affordable housing there will be. There will be 200 social houses. There are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister please do something about the thresholds? People have spent 15, 16 and 17 years on the list and then that time is gone.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister help the people I mentioned?