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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Bill deals with matters that are very important in the context of our society, the people of this country, our environment and many of the challenges we face. The latter include the acute housing crisis, climate change, the need to develop the infrastructure necessary to sustain our society and key matters like environmental justice and access for ordinary people to justice when it...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should take us through every section.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should be taking us through every section of the Bill.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I raise a point of order?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a point of order. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle can tell me-----

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point of order is that 20 minutes are allocated to the Minister. Is that correct?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Twenty minutes have been allocated to the Minister in the context of introducing a Bill-----

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill is 700 pages long. Normally, the procedure would be that the Minister, as well as any general explanation, would take us through every section of the Bill. Maybe the Minister will surprise me and state that he is going to take us through all 541 sections of the Bill in his 20-minute slot, but I would be highly surprised if that were the case. It is just indicative of the lack of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been contacted this week by a number of families whose children go to the Discoveries Crèche and Montessori School in Shankill. I understand something similar has happened at the Discoveries crèche in Firhouse. The organisation has decided to pull out of core funding because it is inadequate and therefore the parents are being told they will endure a 28% increase in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or, as we propose, by introducing a proper national childcare system.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 216. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what efforts he has made with the Israeli Government to end the onslaught in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50267/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he believes the actions of the Israeli Government with regard to the onslaught in Gaza should be referred to the International Criminal Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50268/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today is the UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Quite honestly, there are double standards in this Government and the western world with regard to their attitude to the illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the massacre which Israel has visited and the people of Gaza, the brutality which it continues to visit on the West Bank, the ongoing apartheid for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not doing that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is not interested in peace.

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (28 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of our hearts go out to the five-year-old girl and her carer who were the victims of a horrendous and tragic event. However, the expressions of bewilderment from the Government or An Garda Síochána about how the unfolding events could have happened are, to be honest, quite staggering. People, and not just us but others, who are watching the far right have been warning how...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the 1980s Governments across the world stubbornly resisted the demand to impose sanctions on the apartheid South African regime for its horrible racist system. It took people power and the resistance of black people in South Africa to eventually force the world to recognise that apartheid South Africa had no place in the civilised world. When the Taoiseach is having discussions with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (28 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The numbers are creeping up though.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (28 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the major obstacles to child welfare is access to suitable secure housing accommodation. I highlight the case of a young mother, Jamie, with two children, Cody and Brody, aged two and four, who have both been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy. This is probably a unique diagnosis in the world. The doctors do not know of any other. She is living with her two...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection why a person (details supplied) is receiving a reduced rate of social welfare of €129.70; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52213/23]