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South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (10 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have very mixed feelings about this motion. I am not from the south-coast area so I lack the sort of specific knowledge or guidance that would allow me to make a properly informed decision as to what I think about this motion. We all know we need to develop renewable energy and that offshore renewable energy will be an important part of that. We should also know, however, that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I know that.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he has discussed with his counterparts in the US the ongoing provision of arms and weapons to Israel which are being used in what the International Court of Justice has called a “plausible genocide in Gaza”, in military raids in the West Bank and now in the Israeli military assault on Lebanon; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The images of people of burning alive at Al Aqsa Hospital and in a tented camp beside it are possibly the most horrific, stomach churning, terrifying images of this horrific year of genocide by Israel against the people of Gaza. I suspect those images will be a lasting image in people's minds of the utter horror Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza - burning people alive in hospitals,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Taoiseach going to do to stop the Irish banks facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds to finance the genocidal massacre that is being committed? He is speaking out of both sides of his mouth unless he does something on these issues.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not answering any of the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe the Taoiseach could answer the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Government doing?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not say it publicly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a quiet little chat.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last November, we introduced a motion calling on the Government to instigate action for genocide against Israel. The Government voted against it. In October last year, we introduced a motion asking the Government to put sanctions on Israel as it commenced that genocide. The Government voted against it. Before any of this started, we asked the Government to publicly support the demands of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You never put up clips, do you? Jesus.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we seek action.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tens of thousands of health workers across the health service are balloting for industrial action against the pay and numbers strategy. I have raised this with the Taoiseach, the Minister for public expenditure, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister for Health repeatedly over recent weeks. Workers are feeling forced to take industrial action because the pay and numbers strategy, despite...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will give an update on the programme for Government. [40036/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government made commitments on legacy issues, specifically the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. I have been asked by those campaigning, including families, victims and so on, to raise what they believe is the outrageous failure of the Government and Garda to release the files relating to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings to Operation Newham, that is, the Police Ombudsman for Northern...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The campaigners will have to go to court.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [40037/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to bring to the Taoiseach's attention the shocking case of a new social housing development, St. Germaine, in Ballybrack in my area. It is in the hands of Co-operative Housing Ireland, an AHB, and was built by a developer called Kavco. It was finished at the end of last year and there are 31 units with many families. I met people the other day and, while they were delighted that,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.