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Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the work his Department is planning to prepare for the Pope's visit in August 2018. [13945/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Pope should get a welcome only if he does what Pope Ratzinger refused to do, which was to provide the files containing the church's own information on clerical sex abuse by its members in this country. Ratzinger refused to provide the Vatican's own internal information on this after the production of the Ryan, Ferns and Murphy reports and so on. Ratzinger then, without any particular...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it is entirely appropriate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it is entirely appropriate because-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Papal Visit (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pope Francis, when he went to Chile and Peru in January this year, was met with very significant protest because he appointed a bishop who was widely believed to have covered up and turned a blind eye to clerical sex abuse carried out by a particular Catholic sect. There were uproar and protests every day over his decision to appoint this bishop. We need to put to Pope Francis the question...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Mr. Donald Tusk. [12829/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to know also what, if anything, the Taoiseach said to the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk, about matters Russian in the aftermath of the Salisbury attack but also significantly after widespread reports of known and confirmed Russian atrocities in eastern Ghouta, including the use of chemical weapons. There was no call, as I understand it, from the Taoiseach,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the Taoiseach is the one who has made a decision that has profound implications for Ireland's neutrality based on a conspiracy. The Taoiseach has presented to us a conspiracy that there is no other plausible explanation. That is not evidence; that is a conspiracy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet when it comes to the appalling use of these weapons by Russia in eastern Ghouta, not a dickie bird is heard. In fact, last week in the Dáil, myself and Deputy Gino Kenny asked that the Taoiseach summon the Russian ambassador to the Dáil over what Russia was doing in eastern Ghouta. He ignored us and refused to do it. This week, the Taoiseach is expelling an official from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was no answer regarding Russia.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach does not want to answer.

Government Response to Salisbury Attack: Statements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is really disingenuous of the Minister to suggest that the decision to expel a Russian diplomat does not impinge on our neutrality. Anybody looking objectively at what is happening globally would say there is an escalating confrontation between the United States, Europe and Russia. That is clear. Some of the most horrific outcomes of the new cold war and the confrontation between the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, will contribute to delivering more affordable housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13950/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Communications (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to ensure that alternative telephone numbers to 1850 and 1890 in all Departments of the Revenue Commissioners are provided in order that those trying to discuss issues with officials are not charged beyond their normal telephone packages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13949/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Book Sales (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he continues to allow banks, particularly those in which the Government has an ownership stake, to sell mortgage loans to vulture funds; his plans to implement policy changes to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13630/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Financial Forum (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his Department's or his involvement in the European Financial Forum. [7006/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Abolition (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to undertake a comprehensive review of all corporate tax reliefs and expenditures to establish if such tax reliefs benefit the public and society or are simply providing a mechanism for extensive tax avoidance and private corporate profit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13629/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to award free travel passes to persons with epilepsy and their travel companions in view of the fact that many are banned from driving and are advised by doctors not to cycle and not to use public transport unaccompanied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14102/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the recent decisions to allow homemakers pre-1994 to discount those years from pension calculations will be enacted; when women will benefit from same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14109/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except that one question is mine.