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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B - social policy and public services - will next meet. [16371/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer my final question about the unaffordability of rent and accommodation and, therefore, I will try again. DCU students were protesting outside Leinster House earlier. They are being asked to swallow a 30% rent increase, bringing their rent up to almost €9,000 annually. This is because student accommodation was not covered by the Government's inadequate...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is still no answer to the question on housing, despite it being asked twice. There were three minutes spent on one issue. Could it be spread out a little?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Chancellor Merkel on 20 March 2018. [13943/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Germany is the most powerful state in the European Union and probably the biggest supporter in Europe of the state of Israel. Does the Taoiseach ever raise questions with it about its policy of providing pretty much uncritical support for Israel, particularly given what has happened? Before the Easter break, I warned the Taoiseach in this House that innocent, unarmed protestors would be...

Topical Issue Debate: Syrian Conflict (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been the first to say, and have said most loudly, and there is no doubt that the Assad regime is a brutal, callous, murderous, authoritarian regime supported by a very cynical Russia. I have no doubt about the brutalities it has committed and is capable of committing. The idea that US, UK and French missiles and a massive dose of hypocrisy and double standards from those powers will...

Topical Issue Debate: Syrian Conflict (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We got three minutes.

Topical Issue Debate: Syrian Conflict (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Saying the attacks were understandable in any shape or form is tacit support. Quite frankly, the Tánaiste is not applying uniform or consistent standards when it comes to the behaviour of the big powers who dominate and who are currently paralysing the UN Security Council. What is good for the goose is good for the gander. People like Macron, May or Trump, with Israel cheering them...

Topical Issue Debate: Syrian Conflict (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the chemical weapons attacks in Gaza?

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to say I am finding it quite interesting.

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason I am a socialist and believe capitalism needs to be replaced with a system that has a different set of values is that in its essence capitalism turns everything into a commodity from which someone can profit. As he or she accumulates that profit, he or she gains more and more power over society. When the first critiques of the pernicious logic of commodification and profit at the...

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an allegation. I am just saying it is-----

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise.

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just stating this is happening. The allegation is very much in the public domain. I am not judging or adjudicating on it.

Data Protection Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not deciding it. I am not even offering an opinion on what the outcome of the case in the courts should be. I am simply stating what anyone can read on RTÉ's website, that the matter is being looked at and that there is an allegation which was written about widely in the newspapers at the weekend that Mr. Denis O'Brien and his representative in that company inappropriately...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if correspondence in relation to persons (details supplied) will be responded to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16368/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for naturalisation; the reason for the delay in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16369/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 929. To ask the Minister for Health the engagement he has had with an organisation (details supplied) and the pharmaceutical industry to ensure that new medicines are available to persons with MS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16163/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 926. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time the women's refuge in Rathgar has been closed; his plans to re-open same; his further plans to open other women's refuges in the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16155/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 955. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for a redress scheme for persons who were forcibly committed by the State prior to the enactment of the Mental Health Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16362/18]