Results 2,221-2,240 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take some of the points the Minister is making. Due to a family member being ill for some time, I have had occasion to go into one of our major hospitals every week, at least once a week, for about the past year. I can tell the Minister that the story I hear every week is the same, namely, understaffing, lack of resources, not enough people on the wards and, in some cases, outright chaos,...
- Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I cannot remember the last time we had a debate on the housing crisis, the rental crisis or the homelessness crisis when the Minister for housing stayed for even half the debate. There is a studied contempt - I have said this before but it is very clear now - for the Opposition and, most importantly, for the public affected by the housing and homelessness crisis, the rental crisis and the...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Palestinians are the oppressed, not the oppressor.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is what agreed, sorry?
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Should we not leave it until tomorrow?
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all housing. It is better to leave it until tomorrow.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not going to get in all the speakers.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Agreed.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier, I asked the Taoiseach about our obligations under the genocide convention. He claimed that it is only for one of the state parties affected to invoke it. This is just misleading the House. Under the genocide convention, to which Ireland, all the other EU states, the United States and, indeed, Israel, for that matter, have signed up, all have a responsibility to protect against and...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No way.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not accurate.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not have the capacity.
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Middle East (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Arab and Islamic representatives to discuss the conflict in the Middle East. [53588/23]
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last Sunday was UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The disability community and disability activists are asking when the Government will adopt the optional protocol to the UNCRPD to make itself accountable and to ensure real equality for people with disabilities. This Thursday, a new alliance of disability groups will protest outside the Dáil between 12 o'clock and 2...
- Estimates for Public Services 2023: Programme for Government (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [53587/23]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel's actions in Gaza are not "disproportionate", as the Taoiseach suggests. It is a massacre and genocide unfolding in front of the eyes of the world. Leading genocide experts and historians of the Holocaust, including many Jewish historians of genocide and the Holocaust, are saying this is genocide. This Saturday is the day the UN marks the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all states.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about child and family homelessness?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not section by section.