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Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach sure? That will be next year.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Freedom of Information Data (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is on top of his game.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to implement his strategic priorities as laid out in his recent strategy statement. [12132/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The strategic priorities document is littered with pious aspirations and noble objectives, particularly in the area of housing and social inclusion. They are belied by the actual policies implemented in these areas. I will quote the better society section of the Taoiseach's document: "We will seek to ensure that the position of vulnerable groups in society is taken into account." It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer my question at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what happened.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The decision is not being taken by the council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our councillors have raised it at Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Better a hotel in Dún Laoghaire than a hostel in Dublin.

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take up where Deputy Barry left off. Something that depresses me about the frightening rise of the far right and the openly racist - in some cases, openly neo-fascist - organisations is the poverty of analysis, deep cynicism and, often, dishonesty of the political establishment in this country and across Europe when faced with the dire threat of a return to the extreme nationalist and...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

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European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

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European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt Deputy Donnelly.

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Donnelly linked us to despicable people.

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It showed a dishonesty of analysis and a lack of any sense of humility about the failures of the political establishments in this country and Europe and their responsibility for giving rise to these vile political forces. We on the left are the ones who criticise Europe time and again, not because it is too generous to immigrants, but because it allowed 7,000 immigrants to die in the...

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Deputy. He does not like it when he is criticised.

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not interrupt you, so why do you not shut up?

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are the ones who try to address the inequality that the political establishment in Europe-----

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----has fostered and fomented. Now I am being interrupted by all three sides of the Dáil.

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They all keep interrupting because they do not like being criticised. Consider the gross levels of inequality that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have presided over and Europe has created, the high levels of homelessness and the housing crisis. It is these kinds of inequality and social injustice that provide the fuel for the rotten forces of the far right. Nor is there any reflection of...