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- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (17 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 458. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the best practice guidelines for the development of the Irish wind energy industry are in line with European best practice guidelines, particularly in respect of effects on cultural heritage, proximity to residential communities and these communities' rights to quality of life and the visual impact of the development...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Law (17 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 615. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the prohibition that exists for the use of pellet guns, both air and gas powered with specific attention of the availability of such weapons to children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32874/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Jul 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 747. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32857/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The ambassador said he was still hopeful that there could be some chance of a two-state solution and a negotiated settlement with Israel, but also hinted that hope was running out in that regard. Why does the ambassador have any hope that Israel is serious about the two-state solution or has any interest in a peaceful solution? A large number of people think Israel has shown nothing but...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We would not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am one of the people who thinks the ambassador should be expelled from the country. This has nothing to do with him personally, rather it concern the policies of his state. Like Desmond Tutu, I think the time for treating Israel as a normal state is over because it is not behaving as a normal state. I want to ask the ambassador questions about that contention. For the record, it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How does the ambassador justify that? How does he justify those double standards? As people such as Archbishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela have done, I would certainly describe the Israeli state as an apartheid state with different laws for people depending on their race or religion. For example, at checkpoints going into the West Bank, there is a channel for those who are Israeli or European...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a disgraceful comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an absolutely disgraceful comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The ambassador's document did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish. Explain the law of return.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I saw it for myself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in international law.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government does not need a PPS number for that.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a recording.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Before the recess, many Members on this side of the House appealed to the Government to take urgent action to deal with the housing and homelessness crisis. Indeed, some of us protested about the summer recess taking place before this issue was addressed. The Taoiseach promised that the Government would come forward with measures to deal with it. Over the summer the situation has...
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach made promises.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He made promises to publish a social housing strategy-----