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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome what the Taoiseach outlined. Following on from that, what some of the second level students said is that sometimes, teachers handpicked people to talk to inspectors but there was not engagement with the mass of students and there should be a bit more engagement on the ground. The other point they raised related to facilities in a lot of schools, which vary widely from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just think we should listen when school students speak because they were passionate about education but they just felt the current system was not fit for purpose.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to listen to the school students about what they think is necessary to make it work for them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a very interesting encounter with the Irish Second-Level Students Union yesterday. I spent the afternoon discussing with students from secondary schools up and down the country the issues they are concerned about. It highlighted for me the urgency of radical reform of our secondary school system and a few points should be borne in mind in that regard. One of the things they said was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [4019/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the child poverty and well-being unit. [4031/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Child poverty and child homelessness are completely unacceptable. We have 190,000 children at risk of poverty in this country. One of the most damning facts is that child homelessness has gone through the roof and we now have 4,105 children and 2,000 families living in emergency accommodation. Child homelessness has gone up from October 2021, when there were 2,300 children in emergency...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit published a plan for the funding of RTÉ and public broadcasting in August last year. It was obvious at that stage that there was a funding crisis. The TV licence has always been a regressive charge. After the Government's issues and the Tubridy scandal, it was obvious this could not work but the Government has not made a decision. The consequence is that 13,000...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government needs to scrap the TV licence and bring in a digital tax to directly fund RTÉ and public service broadcasting.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Planning and Development Bill is the second biggest piece of legislation that has ever gone through this House. It deals with critical issues to do with the delivery of housing, the right of communities to participate in the planning and development of their area, the right of communities and individuals to have access to justice on community planning and development issues, and much...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Held hostage. They are being held hostage in Gaza.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Government cannot simply say: "Oh there's nothing we can do". Because that impunity is what has given Israel the licence to continue with this horror.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The west is arming Israel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying we should end apartheid.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: None of the horror that has happened over the past four months would have happened if western governments, including the European Union and the United States, had not given impunity to Israel for years. Long before the current horrific escalation of violence, Israel was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity for its occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing, which has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is incomprehensible that a regime which has for four months inflicted a slaughter on the people of Gaza that has claimed the lives of close to 30,000 people, displaced almost 2 million people and brought an entire population to the brink of famine, and which is in the dock, indicted for genocide, the worst crime a state or human being can commit, is contemplating yet another massacre of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of reports a Palestinian-Canadian journalist (details supplied) has been abducted by Israeli authorities in Gaza; if he is aware of reports that journalists are being targeted by Israeli authorities in Gaza; if he has raised the issue with the Government of Israel; if he has raised the issue with the Government of Canada;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 470. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process by which a person who is not currently in Ireland and is in need of international protection would apply for asylum in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6521/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This section relates to the continuation in force of pre-commencement development plans, which are development plans that are in existence before the new Bill commences, section 66(3) allows the Minister, by order, to reduce or extend the length of that pre-commencement development plan. Our concern is that there would be too much power in the hands of the Minister to make decisions about...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This could be procedural. Does he not have to be here to move it?