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- Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Very good.
- Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Murphy has made many of my points. We welcome the Bill. Single parents suffer disproportionately from poverty. That has been well documented and remained consistently the case for many years now. The fact that the amount of maintenance single parents might receive, the vast majority of whom are women, is means-tested and then impacts on their social welfare payments is completely...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On New Year's Day, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, issued an absolutely damning ruling against Metropolitan Films, which is one of the biggest film producing companies, with tens of millions of euro of public money having been issued to it over the years. Awards in the region of hundreds of thousands of euro have been made to film crew workers. This ruling revealed systematic...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (18 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to consider establishing an Ombudsman for An Post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2185/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to reconsider the refusal of a critical skills employment permit for a person (details supplied) in light of the applicant's legal residency in the country as an international protection applicant, and in light of the applicant's Irish Dental Council registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2181/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the guidelines set out in section 4.2.4 of the national guidelines for the assessment and allocation process for social housing provision for people with a disability, in relation to the time scale of processing applications, have a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2289/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (18 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the commitment to keep all Coillte lands in public ownership in the Programme for Government and the claim on Coillte's website that land is available for sale; the steps the Government has taken to ensure that Coillte land is not sold or privatised during the life of this Government. [2182/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (18 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of Coillte's advertised policy on the sale and leasing of public land; how much land has been sold or leased since he became Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2183/24]
- Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Doherty and Sinn Féin for tabling this motion to highlight the malign influence of vulture funds and investment funds in helping to create, perpetuate and ever worsen the dire housing crisis that we face in this country, which is causing so much hardship for hundreds of thousands of people. It has contributed substantially to the record levels of homelessness and is...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: History will judge harshly the people who stood by while the genocide was taking place and refused to call it for what it is and do as South Africa, a country that knows about apartheid and colonialism, has done. South Africa stood up, with an Irish legal representative who did this country proud, and presented an overwhelming case that Israel is guilty of the worst crime humanity can...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Palestinian people and the 60,000 or 70,000 people who were on the streets last weekend do not understand why the Government will not do this. Is it because it is afraid of America?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have an answer from the Government on whether it is going to allow for a debate on genocide? I mean, seriously, the Minister did not even answer. Is the Government going to give us a debate on a genocide that is happening and the ICJ case? It is shameful if it does not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe we could do what South Africa did.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a genocide.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have it for weeks.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We used it in November and the Government voted it down.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a genocide.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Gaza? There is a genocide going on. Will the Government give us a debate-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----where we can discuss the genocide, the worst crime-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the worst possible crime?