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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 295. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ask the Israeli authorities why approximately 350 acres of crops, all less than the regulation 40 cm in height and newly planted by Palestinian farmers in Gaza, have been destroyed by Israeli crop sprayers operating in the access restricted areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3746/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 296. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he regards the Israeli confiscation of land and forced transfer of Palestinian Bedouins from the E1 area of the West Bank as contrary to international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3747/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 297. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has requested Israel to unequivocally clarify that it will not forcibly transfer Palestinian Bedouin from the El area of the West Bank or seize any land in this area for settlement expansion; if he discussed this during his December 2015 visit to Tel Aviv, Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3748/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 298. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has an assessment of Israel’s treatment of minority groups, given the Israeli Supreme Court’s decision to allow the demolition of the Bedouin village of Umm al-Hiran inside Israel and the removal of its inhabitants against their will; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3749/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to specify why English language schools with no external quality assurance system were allowed to be part of the interim list of education programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3750/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (28 Jan 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how allowing English language schools have an unspecified quality assurance system or external validation furthers the stated Government policy of Ireland becoming a quality destination of choice for international students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3751/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on discussions he has held with the President of France, Mr. François Hollande, since the tragic events in Paris, France; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42435/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach to report on discussions he held with European Union leaders since the atrocities in Paris in France on 13 November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44825/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Feb 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the increasingly long waiting times for operations at Cappagh Hospital in County Dublin, where waiting times of 18 months and longer are leading to some patients developing conditions arising out of the long-term use of pain medication, which is necessary given the waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3942/16]

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I too congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on his election, as well as those Deputies elected for the first time and those who have been re-elected. All of us have to stand humble in the face of the judgment of the people. We spent several weeks campaigning on our different policies, priorities and political records, but now the judgment has been made. Our job is to act as swiftly as...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome this motion, one to which we also signed up. Again, I would ask for humility in the face of the judgment of the people. Nobody here has a monopoly on demanding or calling for political reform. That demand has come from the people through the ballot box and in many movements on different issues affecting our society, whether it is water, hospitals, disability, young people and the...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does refer to the debate about what needs to be discussed as a matter of priority on 22 March. That is a challenge to those who are talking about democracy, making this House relevant to people who are alienated from politics and that they live up to their pledges. There should be no attempt to slither out of pledges made in pursuit of votes in the election that has just gone. There is...

Standing Order 112 Select Committee: Motion (10 Mar 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except for the reference to the Independents.

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While the main parties of the political establishment in particular have been engaged in an elaborate political charade, an escalating social emergency exists in housing and homelessness that simply cannot wait to be dealt with. We have tabled a specific motion, although I acknowledge the wider points made by Deputy McDonald and others, on the need for urgent, comprehensive and radical...

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I have one more sentence?

Business of Dáil (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The remit of NAMA must be changed so that it can immediately bend all of its resources and energy towards the direct provision of council and affordable housing. This has to happen immediately and we must cease allowing NAMA to do things that are worsening that crisis. These issues have to be addressed as an absolute matter of urgency. They are of far more importance and interest to the...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to nominate Deputy Ruth Coppinger for the position of Taoiseach. The process of Government formation since the general election has become a total farce. Coincidentally, it is now 40 days and 40 nights since the general election that this farce has continued. While Jesus Christ wandered in the wilderness for 40 days and nights, contemplating the sins of humanity and maybe the...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I nominate Deputy Coppinger not because we are interested in personalities, the drug of power or political position, but because we want to use this opportunity to highlight the issues that matter to our citizens and that every single Deputy in this House has a responsibility to address urgently. The two biggest parties, which are in a position to form a Government, should stop messing...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil are holding the country to ransom. Citizens have been left stranded and are increasingly becoming angry and frustrated as for close to 50 days Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil have been playing out this really cynical spectacle. 5 o’clock This is motivated solely by the pursuit of political power, while the citizens are blighted with a diabolical...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has disintegrated as the major political force on the left in this country, not because of who it talks to or who it got into bed with, but because of the policies and promises-----