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Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach how he intends to increase the coordination role of his Department in national security. [12374/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly advise people to read George Orwell's book 1984 in which the world is divided into three blocs and governments tell people to live in fear of the others all the time to justify increasing authoritarianism and more expenditure on arms and weapons while working people are kept down and denied the money that is going into weapons and arms, which should go into health, education and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely disgusting. These were peaceful women protestors on a Mother's Day protest. Does the Taoiseach condone that kind of treatment of people who were a threat to nobody? It is absolutely outrageous behaviour. Does the Taoiseach condemn that? Is that where we are heading? Is that the sort of society we are heading for? They were protesting about our continued complicity with...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They said they were going to leave after one hour.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not compare the two.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These protestors were sitting down.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They said they would leave after one hour.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israeli war bonds. That is complicity. Absolutely it is.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israeli war bonds.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have any time to do anything.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Oh, Jesus.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Regrettably, the Ceann Comhairle has compromised the integrity of her position and her independence by involving herself in the grubby deal that was done between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and Michael Lowry, the politician who was found by the Moriarty tribunal to be "profoundly corrupt". The reasons for that, obviously, are that the Government does not care about corruption and is quite...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why did you not put that on the agenda?

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is your motion.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fact check.

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is obvious the Government does not want to solve the housing crisis. It has dropped the pretence. It has no targets, it is curtailing the tenant in situ scheme, it has always resisted rent controls and its homelessness figures continue to rise. It does absolutely nothing about it. It does not want to stop the flow into homelessness. It is planning to remove even the minimal rent...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Financial Instruments (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Israeli bonds that have been sold in Ireland since 2023 and the value of these and if he will introduce legislation to forbid the Central Bank of Ireland from facilitating the sale of bonds for countries that are in breach of human rights law and the Geneva Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16062/25]