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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am joking.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The last questions are mine.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time is the Ceann Comhairle allocating for each block?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be happy to cut my very specific question about correspondence to six or seven minutes-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and then give extra time to the other two.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am so helpful.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the United States of America and the meetings he had. [12830/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Would the Taoiseach not accept that telling a joke about assisting Donald Trump with a planning matter was at best an embarrassing mistake but at worst conveyed a desire to cuddle up to the US President and make common cause with him rather than criticise him for some of his dangerous and, in many cases, obnoxious policies? I say this in all seriousness, setting aside the debate as to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----about possible diplomatic retaliation? Whatever about Putin being an authoritarian, which he certainly is, and a dangerous force, Donald Trump is clearly ratcheting up-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the cold war confrontation as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a stretch.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us avoid that indignity at least.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Honesty is an important prerequisite to serious debate. Deputy Martin said that those who are critical of the decision to expel are defending Russia, in response to which I noted the Taoiseach was nodding.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy did say it. As recently as last week, Deputy Gino Kenny and I condemned the behaviour of Russia on the floor of the Dáil. We asked the Government to bring in the Russian ambassador to answer questions about what Russia is doing in Syria. Lest anybody is in any doubt, Putin is an authoritarian war monger but this does not, however, mean that Russia is guilty, without...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are the Russians trying to hack? Definitely. We are all aware of the scandal that unfolded recently in regard to Facebook, an American company which gave information to Cambridge Analytica, which is being used to subvert democratic elections. The Russians and the Americans are dodgy and there are spies in the Russian embassy, the American embassy and the Israeli embassy. Let us be even...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Correspondence (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Taoiseach the system used by his Department for dealing with correspondence. [12831/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Correspondence (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said a substantive response is usually given to any correspondence his Department receives within an appropriate time. I have a specific question about a piece of correspondence dealing with a serious matter. It relates to a whistleblower whose story and the issue he brought to public attention featured in a "Prime Time Investigates" programme in 2015. It involved a company...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Correspondence (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach could give him a reference.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Barry has outlined how a state of the European Union is engaged in pretty unacceptable and brutal repression of those protesting against injustice. There is also an ally of the European Union with preferential trade arrangements, Israel, whose actions we should consider as we come to Easter weekend. Easter, of course, commemorates the persecution of the Israelites by the Roman Empire...
- European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How long do we have for questions?