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Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. Shame on the United States, shame on Britain, shame on the European Union and shame on this Government for continuing to give Israel impunity while it carries out a genocide and a massacre on the people of Gaza. On 18 October, Solidarity-People Before Profit put forward an amendment to a Government motion on Gaza where we...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (14 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for details surrounding a "military photoshoot" conducted on Knockfierna hill in Limerick on 14 October; what measures the Defence Forces have in place to inform the public that soldiers dressed in military equipment, carrying real or replica rifles and other firearms, are carrying out drills in areas open to the public so that they are not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister think there has ever been any other government in the world that has been told it could have an additional €14 billion in revenue and said, "No, we do not want it", and then went on to spend €8 million in legal fees fighting to ensure we do not get the money? That €14 billion is more than three times the housing budget. Imagine what that money could do...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and that it owed us €14 billion-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the Government does not want it. Will the Government now withdraw from this case?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell us how much we are paying the lawyers. How much are we paying the lawyers?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister of State not think, and I also put this question to many in the Opposition, that it is time to re-evaluate the notion that Israel is some sort of normal state and re-evaluate the so-called two-state solution?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us look at what we have and then I will say what the alternative is. Referring to the Palestinians, Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion stated in 1948, and I am roughly paraphrasing him, that the only thing for the Arabs to do was leave. That is what they then did. In 1948, as part of establishing the state, 800,000 people were ethnically cleansed. Under international law,...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Saturday, I was a participant in an online international event organised by the Rohingya people in solidarity with Gaza. Among others, there were numerous academics and experts in attendance, including many Jewish people who were expert in the area of genocide. They, along with many others, including many representatives of the Jewish population worldwide, are rightly describing what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No searches.

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has never been any appetite by Israel - ever.

Ceisteanna - Questions: International Relations (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has indicated there may be war crimes being committed by Israel in Gaza. Most people have no doubt they are being committed because they are happening right in front of us and, critically, Israel is not hiding it. Leading ministers and military personnel have publicly declared their intention to commit war crimes - to starve the entire population of water, food, gas and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [46435/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A point I have made to the Taoiseach many times is that for people who are working and whose income exceeds the social housing threshold, the only available option is a cost-rental home. However, the delivery of cost-rental homes is very small at the moment and, therefore, people who find themselves in housing difficulty and who are working and over the thresholds, or in quite a few cases...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hostages. That is what they are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It worked with South Africa.