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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase the number of special education teachers, special needs assistants, and special classes to ensure that every child with special or additional needs receives appropriate supports in their preferred school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase investment in education per student to at least a level equal to OECD average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase recruitment and retention of primary and secondary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the hot meals programme menus cater for all food allergies and if the ingredients and cooking methods reach the standards for healthy eating as per the standards outlined by the WHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8608/25]

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish the Minister the best of luck with her new brief. It is important she succeeds for the sake of hundreds of thousands of people who rely on the health service every year and indeed for the workers who provide the healthcare. I apologise in advance that I will need to leave because I am simultaneously participating in the Dáil reform committee and therefore I will not be here for...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is me, then Deputies Connolly and O'Gorman. The Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine was an absolutely brutal, unjustified, criminal action and he should get out. Putin should get out of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have the absolute right to resist that brutal invasion and occupation. However, particularly the powers that dominate NATO, the US, Germany and the UK, are not reliable...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not good examples.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single opinion polls show the majority of people are in favour of neutrality.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever. They also, in their hundreds of thousands, protested about decisions of previous Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments to allow millions of US troops to go through Shannon Airport to assist US-UK led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered on the basis of lies put out by the US. The coalition Government of which the Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We got the triple lock.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The US context has changed too.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point of the UN part of the triple lock is that we do not deploy troops in conflicts between the big imperial powers. The Minister is right: Putin is a nasty imperialist aggressor. However, is it not interesting that he does not call Trump a nasty imperialist aggressor when he has just said to the Ukrainians, "We might consider giving you a few weapons, but only if you give us all those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not given one example.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am listening very carefully.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is waging a very thinly veiled stealth war against Irish neutrality. The move to remove the triple lock is part of that very conscious and deliberate campaign by this Government to undermine our traditional neutrality. Can the Tánaiste please explain why the Government is getting rid of the triple lock? Is it not clearly just a move to undermine Ireland's traditional...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not trust Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael with Irish neutrality. For example, the Department of Defence has just contracted a US defence agency based in the pentagon to redesign the Irish Defence Forces. In the blurb on its website, this US pentagon-based company says it is grounded in American values. Maybe they are the values of Donald Trump as he has shown in a video the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There certainly is a delay with the committees and the business of the House is being stalled because of that. That is solely the responsibility of the Government for trying to overstep the mark of all previous convention and trying to muddy the waters between the Government and the Opposition for its own advantage, and to neuter the Opposition. It is not good enough for it to have a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will there be pre-legislative scrutiny?

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing forward the motion. As others have, I pay tribute to those in the Public Gallery for coming here today and for having the courage to speak up, and to advocate and campaign on this issue. Their presence is hugely important because listening to the Government and some of the contributions here, they might think that there is a very clear determination to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail any cooperation between his Department and NATO, including, but not limited to, PESCO and the EU Common Security and Defence Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6081/25]