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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You have been saying that for nine months. Nine months you have been saying it for.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Talk about untruths.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But you do not turn up for those debates.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We want the Minister to come in and talk about the Housing Commission.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is your report.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said earlier he cared about workers. Where is this Government's respect for 27,000 section 39 workers who look after the disabled, elderly and vulnerable and who still have not received the 8% pay rise agreed in the WRC and who still do not have the parity that was promised with workers employed directly by the health service? I was talking this morning to home care workers...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [6085/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Dublin and Monaghan bombings were the single biggest atrocity in one day of the entire Troubles when 33 people were killed in bombings that Loyalist paramilitaries admitted they carried out, almost certainly with the collusion of the British Government. The Taoiseach should ask for Britain to release all the files and information available about those atrocities but he is in a very weak...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not happening in Drew Harris's case.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sort this one out.

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not allowed use the word "lies" in here, so instead we will have to say the Government is systematically misleading people about why we have a recruitment and retention crisis in our health services in general and, specifically, in our mental health services. It fails to acknowledge the reason we cannot recruit or are not recruiting the staff we need - psychologists, psychiatrists,...

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion and I thank the parents who have come in and who are devoted to their children and to vindicating their children's rights. We are talking about their rights, both under Irish law to education and under the UNCRPD to equality and to be able to participate fully in society on an equal basis to every other child. The Government is failing children...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is considering new taxation measures to replace possible losses in tax revenue given the policy announcements of the new Trump US administration and potential implications for Ireland's tax revenues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5107/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning further changes to section 481 film credit to vindicate employment rights of film workers and to ensure greater security of employment of film workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5108/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning to close tax incentives benefitting vulture funds, other property-related investment funds and profit driven investors to prevent them buying up residential property given the on-going housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5109/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance if he read the latest wealth report by an organisation (details supplied); and if it will make him re-consider a wealth tax on the assets of multi-millionaires and billionaires to address inequality in the distribution of wealth. [5106/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Disputes (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had or if he is planning to have discussions with the Minister for Health regarding the planned industrial action of Section 39 workers and similarly the recent ballots for industrial action by other health workers in relation to the 'pay and numbers' strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rules for grants for taxi drivers to replace their vehicles with electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5234/25]

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister does not bother his backside to turn up for two housing debates in a row and the Government refuses to discuss for nine months the Housing Commission report which provided a damning indictment of the failures of Government housing policy. Why? It is because the Government does not want to solve the housing crisis. It does not care about the people who have been on housing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vital bus routes and public transport services should not only run if a private company can make a profit out of them. A private company, Aircoach, has just announced that it is going to cut several routes, including one that goes through my area. The cut means there will no longer be a route going from Shankill, Ballybrack and Loughlinstown to Dublin Airport. Bus drivers in my area are...