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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is clear from the Taoiseach's response earlier during Leaders' Questions that he is not even aware of the Government's legal obligations under the genocide convention to act to prevent genocide, incitement to genocide or complicity with genocide. I strongly urge him to check on the Government's obligations under the convention because they are onerous, and with very good reason. The...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many thousands of people swim in Dublin Bay every day, particularly during the summer. Even during the winter very hardy souls swim. The numbers are growing all the time. For years now - and this continues to be the case - when heavy rains come down the sewage mixes with the rainwater, at least in our area, and the pumping station off the West Pier is not able to pump the stuff out quickly...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [50901/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Shannon, the Taoiseach trusts the United States to tell the truth about what is on those planes. This is the same United States that told us there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and then continued to kill 1 million people in Iraq based on a pack of lies about weapons of mass destruction. We will not even search planes when it is backing up the slaughter that Israel is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apartheid.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And the genocide.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government will not even look at it. It should look at its obligations under the genocide convention.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Dublin this weekend, outraged at the atrocities Israel is inflicting on the people of Gaza. Thousands more will be outside the Dáil tomorrow evening calling on the Government to support People Before Profit's motion which calls for sanctions on Israel for the crimes it is committing - the massacre it is committing - in Gaza and for...

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, was here for the first part of my Second Stage contribution.

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I made many of the points I wish to raise. I will briefly summarise. My significant interest in this is particularly informed by the experience of the Debenhams workers. The Minister of State is aware they went through an incredible struggle, undertaking 406 days of strike action to try to vindicate their rights. Under a collective redundancy agreement that had been agreed with Debenhams,...

Science Week: Statements (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the opportunity to discuss science and its role and importance in our society and for our future in Science Week. The Minister said in his speech relating to Science Week that science is about being human, and I think that is absolutely right. In a way, it defines what being human is, although Deputy Gannon is also right to say that the other thing that defines what being human is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope and expect that there will be tens of thousands of people assembling in Parnell Square this Saturday at 1 p.m. to march in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine as they face the horror being inflicted on them by the State of Israel. I will ask the Minister one of the questions they are going to be asking this Saturday. How many Palestinians does Israel have to massacre,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is still doing it. He is still talking about Israel's self-defence. Apartheid, which is what the Israeli system is based on, has no more right to defend itself than apartheid in South Africa did. Illegal occupation does not have the right to defend itself, nor does ethnic cleansing or a state built on ethnic cleansing. The people who have a right to defend themselves are the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any expedition for families applying for reunification of their family members in Gaza who cannot access original documents as necessary in usual circumstances given this is an abnormal situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (16 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the options that are available for Ukrainian families when host family can no longer accommodate them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50365/23]

Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some sort of legislative response to the scandalous situation that faced the Debenhams workers has been a long time coming. Those workers were forced to engage in a strike for 406 days because of the absolutely despicable manner in which Debenhams laid them off. It made them all redundant and then refused to honour the collective agreement to give them two weeks' statutory redundancy plus...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very obvious to everybody who is being honest that Israel is engaged in a genocidal massacre in Gaza. Why does the Taoiseach, along with the sponsors of Israel, namely, the United States, Britain and the European Union, continue to persist with the falsehood that this has anything to do with Israeli self-defence or that Israel is in any way a normal state, particularly when its own...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----we will never end the horror?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another war criminal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is a terrorist.