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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suspect the British Government wanted to water down the backstop.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There should be no question of us giving an inch on the question of the Border and the assurances given. We often focus on the very immediate and important question of the debacle in Britain and what the implications might be in terms of a crash-out Brexit in the event that there is a deal or no deal. However, over the Christmas period it would be worthwhile reflecting on the wider...

Post-European Council: Statements (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Murphy will go first. We are sharing time.

Post-European Council: Statements (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Socialists share.

Post-European Council: Statements (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Good politics, particularly in these very tumultuous times in Europe, is about seeing the connections between things. Bad politics is about isolating issues and imagining they can be resolved in isolation. Bad politics is not understanding the connection between what is happening in Hungary, France and the debacle in Tory Britain, the issues that affect this island in terms of Brexit and...

Post-European Council: Statements (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from earlier comments, will the Minister of State tell me whether there was or is recognition at the European Council of the major significance of developments such as the yellow vest protests in France where Paris and other cities were burning and the protests in Hungary? How are the latter protests connected to the very dangerous direction in which Mr. Victor Orbán is...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But ensuring proper legislative scrutiny, of course.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am ecstatic.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the one amendment I am not excited about. I salute Dave Gibney and all the Mandate crew, along with Joe Carolan from the New Zealand trade union Unite, who are in the Visitors Gallery. Joe Carolan was with me ten years ago on quite a few pickets with building workers at building sites protesting against bogus self-employment. I and many others stood with many building workers...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke to workers.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a payoff, not a penalty.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Having listened to the Minister, I am hopeful that things are moving. By the way, I thought the advertisement was good. It just needed something else with it to say there were legal protections. We have made progress and I take the Minister at her word, but I do not buy the technical argument because there is politics behind it. I am not saying the Minister is being duplicitous, but there...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance Costs (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason insurance rates for taxi vehicles, particularly wheelchair and disability vehicles, are high compared to EU rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53509/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services Provision (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 297. To ask the Minister for Health the full entitlements of children between 12 and 16 years of age in the HSE dental programme; if children between 12 to 16 years of age are entitled to full and free dental treatments needed without restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53507/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Coverage (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 479. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if licensed taxi drivers are permitted to seek and acquire insurance for work vehicles from insurance companies in other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53508/18]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is happy as long as the Chinese eat more red meat.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, will meet next. [51725/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is extraordinary to listen to the Taoiseach's answer on the health service: one would think everything is improving. We are facing industrial action by thousands of nurses from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland. Incredibly, the Taoiseach's Cabinet committee on health has not met since November despite facing industrial action by...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach could answer the question I asked him.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I asked is why the Taoiseach thinks the nurses are going on strike.