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Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue I am highlighting is how we will deal with a proposal for a directive on country by country reporting on the European Union's efforts to clamp down on aggressive tax avoidance by multinationals. As we all know, this country and companies operating here are at the centre of that controversy. This is specifically directed at multinationals. I find it extraordinary that an all-party...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a specific question. I understand the Minister for Education and Skills is to sign a statutory instrument by the end of this week that essentially closes off the possibility of level 8, Montessori trained teachers being able to work, as they have until now, within the State system in special schools. These teachers are trained in St. Nicholas Montessori College in my constituency and...

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This motion is part of an ongoing and systematic cover-up, one involving the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and others in the House, of the country's collusion with aggressive and large-scale corporate tax avoidance by the largest and most profitable multinationals in the world operating in Europe, including this country. It is extraordinary that the only reason we are even debating this motion...

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was to be no discussion in the Dáil.

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of clarification, the motion was not to be discussed in the Chamber.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Industry (16 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has had discussions with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on the exploratory drilling at Woodburn Forest in County Antrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16155/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will introduce a national ban on hydraulic fracturing, given the international evidence on its dangers; if not, why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16154/16]

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Greyhound?

Death of Jo Cox, MP: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit and the Anti-Austerity Alliance, I extend our heartfelt condolences and sympathies to Jo Cox’s husband, Brendan, her two children and all her family and friends. Jo's murder was an utterly vile and obnoxious act which must be condemned outright. British politics and the Labour Party in Britain have suffered the loss of a champion of progressive...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I brought an issue to the House with regard to St. Augustine's special school in Blackrock for children with mild intellectual disabilities. That was following a mobilisation, if you like, by very concerned parents about the children and plans by St. John of God Community Services to cut HSE funding to vocational services. I was glad to hear that on foot of the protests and...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in the past, outreach projects for vulnerable young people in poorer and more disadvantaged areas. That is happening, and I ask the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health to have a close look at what is being pulled here and whether it is line with the policy of the Government.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to campaign in Britain on the referendum on a British exit from the European Union. [17144/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We in People Before Profit want absolutely nothing to do with some of the vile and racist forces that are campaigning for an exit from the European Union in Britain, some of whom have stoked up the sort of racist conditions and sentiment that took the life of Labour MP, Jo Cox. We must all dissociate ourselves from that. Having said that, I disagree with the consensus in the House that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are now being shot.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the next British-Irish Council meeting. [16863/16]

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the song "Imagine", John Lennon asked us to imagine if there were no countries and a brotherhood of man. That is the view held by socialists. We do not believe in national borders or frontiers. We believe there is one race, the human race. Frankly, I find it frustrating, to put it mildly, that a previous speaker suggested that those of us who are critical of the European Union and...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The mass movement against water charges is set to score two victories in a week. It is forcing the Government to reverse a scandalous effort by private waste companies to hike in charges to extortionate levels, and later in the week the Government will be forced to climb down in its effort to inflict water charges on people. The movement against water charges was a child of the movement...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister does not accept is just how greedy the people concerned are and what they were willing to do. They were trying and willing to ratchet up charges by between 50% and 200%. All we are getting from the Minister is a promise that it will not happen for 12 months, but there is no promise that it will not happen in the future. We have been down this road before; it happened 15...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why will the Minister not pass the measure we propose which would cap charges and reintroduce waivers? The reason is the waste companies do not want him to do so.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister must balance his loyalty to the profit seeking bandits with what is a jury that has come in on the private waste industry and privatisation.