Results 221-240 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Daly for bringing this motion forward, which we are happy to support. I heard somebody say Tallaght was the worst in terms of the waiting list. I was reported in the middle of last year that Dún Laoghaire was the worst, so we are competing for that accolade. Certainly, waiting times for tests and resits in Dún Laoghaire are shockingly bad. They...
- Disability: Statements (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A group of 54 parents of children with special needs will be outside the Department of Education at 1 p.m. this Friday to fight for their children's right, which the Government is failing to vindicate, to have a school place with the special education resources and supports they need. It is bad enough to have to fight for the right of one's children to have a school place which the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not. I talk about one state and a land for all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the ICC gone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand the context.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems to me that there is a crisis in terms of the EU's commitment to even its own human rights legislation and to international law. The newly elected Chancellor of Germany has invited Benjamin Netanyahu to Germany. This is somebody who has an arrest warrant out for him by the ICC for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the new German Chancellor is inviting him to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why do we have a staffing crisis then?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no staff.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is on staff.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [6428/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach was caught out misleading the public, to put it kindly, on the housing completion numbers to try to win an election. Will he now admit that the crisis in our health service is also another area where he has been misleading the public about what is actually going on with regard to the lack of staffing across the health services? This has prompted all of the health workers...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [6087/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A lot of Members are not here so we could double up on the questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Due to the Victorian decrepit water infrastructure in much of my area - this is probably true of much of the city, but it is certainly true of Dún Laoghaire - when it rains, the run-off water mixes with foul water and the foul water all goes into the pumping station in Dún Laoghaire, which cannot cope and therefore foul water goes into the sea, destroying water quality and making...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the establishment of a Cabinet committee on water quality. [6086/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A more honest answer.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Taoiseach's Questions?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is trying to undermine democracy by insisting that the Lowry and Healy-Rae groups can be part of the Government and simultaneously be part of the Opposition-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----taking up its speaking time, committee places and resources. This is clearly an effort to minimise the ability of the Opposition to scrutinise the Government. Another example of that is that this week for the third time, every single week, instead of two appearances by the Taoiseach at Taoiseach's Questions, he will appear only once this week. The fact that it is not a coincidence...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That would further reduce the Government's exposure to interrogation, not just by the Opposition but by its own backbenchers whom it claims to care so much about.