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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one very specific question. The housing crisis is the most acute domestic crisis we face at the moment. I cannot emphasise enough how bad it is for a huge number of people, whether they are on housing lists or are working and cannot afford market prices or market rents. Along with public housing, one of the big issues for us is affordable housing. What freedom and latitude do we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Scéimeanna Teanga (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the Irish language scheme in his Department. [14253/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B (Social Policy and Public Services) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [10926/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning I attended the latest meeting of the Raise the Roof housing campaign. It was agreed that there would be another major demonstration on 18 May because of the failure of the Government to address the housing crisis and provide the desperately needed public and affordable housing required to address the housing emergency. I have to say one aspect of the Government's policy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The crisis is still going on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy McDonald was supposed to speak before both me and Deputy Micheál Martin.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The atrocity that took place in New Zealand should absolutely shock us all, but it should also make us consider how such a hate-filled racist and Islamophobic massacre could take place. How did it happen? New Zealand is not the sort of country one would associate with this kind of thing. When I witnessed that horror and just a couple of days before I witnessed the Taoiseach meeting Donald...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about my question about Trump? The Taoiseach does not want to answer that question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will not answer that question.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Quite right, Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Apologies.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I am on the Business Committee. In front of the Ceann Comhairle, the Chief Whip said the reason the Government was not going to free the Bill and the process from the committee was that it opposed the content of the Bill. That is what he said.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are telling the Government it has no right to frustrate this Bill.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The process relating to this Bill.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are trying to change the process.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has covered itself with shame in how it has dealt with this Bill, just as it has covered itself with shame in how it has failed to deal with the climate emergency that represents an existential threat to the future of humanity. It did not feel shame before Christmas when it was being lobbied by the representatives of the oil companies. We have checked the lobby register and...

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a climate change policy that has failed and the Minister of State knows that. It is even acknowledged in the Government amendment. It is a policy that has failed. We are pathetically short of our targets and the Government is not willing to take the type of radical action that is necessary. The Government says it will not affect emissions. That is a nonsense. This is a global...

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the point made by Deputy Bríd Smith, which I also made in my contribution, is the Government's amendment not out of order?

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not in any way deal with the content of the motion, which the Ceann Comhairle also alluded to.

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, seriously-----

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on, you just said a minute ago-----