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Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In fact, there are only four of us so we will have two and a half minutes each. The people of this country gave their verdict on water charges last Saturday week when 100,000 people took to the streets and said they could not and would not pay the charges, and the Government had no right to impose yet another crippling tax on low and middle income households and to make them pay for what is...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or you could just abolish the charges.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the corporations to pay for it.

Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy.

Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the face of it, the introduction of this Bill seems to be a reasonably positive move. As I understand it, we are making it easier for companies to develop generic medicines without running foul of patent laws or infringing intellectual property rights. I can certainly see the value of that. The bigger context for much of this debate is the scandalous manner in which big pharmaceutical...

Intellectual Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed. There was an understanding at the time that ideas were no one's property. Rather, they were an accumulation of generations of developments and advancements in knowledge. Everyone was standing on the shoulders of everyone else in the development of ideas, literature, innovation, etc. That is the truth. I do not know whether my next point is absolutely true, but I remember reading...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Incentives (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has considered developing district energy and community co-operative projects as part of developing our renewable energy strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40408/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (23 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider including using local labour and local economy gain stipulations in the licensing regime for off shore gas and oil exploration and development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40411/14]

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody said that. Nobody would say that except tax exiles.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the discussions he had on his visit to the Middle East in relation to Gaza and the humanitarian crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39814/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the crisis in Iraq and Syria with the Lebanese Prime Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39815/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The greatest slaughter that has taken place in the Middle East in recent times was not, as the Taoiseach has suggested, a result of the people of the region slaughtering each other. The greatest slaughter in the region arose when the United-States-led coalition bombed Iraq back into the Stone Age and, in the process, according to some estimates, took up to 1 million lives directly or...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the referenda he plans to hold before the end of his term in government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39816/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the past few days, some Government spokespeople have indicated the possibility of a referendum on the right to water. Given that the Constitutional Convention supported by 85% the idea that economic, social and cultural rights should be enshrined in the Constitution and, more significantly, given from 150,000 to 200,000 people came out on the streets at the weekend under the broad banner...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask a brief question?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the issue of the right to housing and given the housing crisis, is the Taoiseach thinking of responding to the Constitutional Convention's call for these sorts of rights to be enshrined in the Constitution?

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I understand the Government is distracted with the unprecedented popular revolt against water charges which has engulfed it -----

Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the crisis facing the Government mean that it has changed the promised schedule for bringing forward the other important publication on social housing strategy promised by the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government? It was promised before the recent recess that we would have the document and a debate in the House on a crisis that continues. Families are being made...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Taoiseach in view of the Constitutional Convention's commitment to have social economic and cultural rights enshrined in the Constitution, if the Government is going to adopt this in terms of a referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42226/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Taoiseach if he will indicate the parts of the Constitutional Convention's recommendations the Government will adopt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42227/14]