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Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government refers to work-life balance, quality of life, quality employment and it even contains the phrase "a secure future for all living things", which is quite a noble ambition. I want to shout out for a group of workers very close at hand who do not have any of those things. They are the majority of people who work for Oireachtas TV, who broadcast proceedings from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree with me?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have a place on the commission but the Government has a place.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just thought I would start the ball rolling.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was only raised with me last week.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: About a week ago, I raised the plight of tenants in Sallynoggin who have been living in council houses for years with infants and children where there is mould all over the walls, all of the time, water running down the insides of the walls and rodent infestations. The tenants are still being forced to live there. It has been earmarked for redevelopment but the point is that the tenants...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sallynoggin. Since I raised this, the people are still in there and still looking to get out. By the way, the Rialto Action Group took a legal case against Dublin City Council some years ago because these kinds of conditions are a breach of the European Social Charter. The group won the case. The Sallynoggin case is similar. These people's rights are being breached by the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not very stable for tenants.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Impose minimum standards.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about rehousing people when they are in those conditions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should impose minimum standards.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Classical economists Karl Marx and David Ricardo, on different sides of the political spectrum, agreed that all wealth is derived from labour. One of our biggest problems is skills shortages in every sector of our economy, whether it is construction, the health service, education or retail. The reason is increasing numbers in their tens of thousands of young people are bailing out of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Society is not a football game. Perhaps the Taoiseach thinks it is. We need our housing to be affordable for young people and to remove financial barriers to education that drive many of our young people out.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach support them?

European Union Regulations: Motion (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy to support this motion for Ireland to opt in to the negotiating mandate on the EU-UK youth experience scheme. It is worth noting that the consequences of the anti-immigrant sentiment that drove the right wing campaign in the UK against the EU are now becoming apparent. It should be a salutary warning to people who want to go down the road of anti-immigration that it comes back to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is planning any engagements with his counterparts in the USA or the EU administrations in relation to Donald Trump's proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4492/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been in discussions with international counterparts in relation to the definition of antisemitism by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4491/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Artificial Intelligence (11 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a detailed breakdown of all funding allocated for the year ahead or spent in the past fiscal year by his Department on artificial intelligence systems or artificial intelligence research; and what programmes or Department operations, if any, are conducted using artificial intelligence tools. [3870/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Sales (11 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that went sale agreed in 2024; how many of these were apartments and how many were houses; the number bought by individuals; the number bought by institutions; the number bought by local authorities; how many of the individuals that bought these homes were first-time buyers; and if he will make a...