Results 241-260 of 26,831 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You are not hearing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am listening.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Government that decides.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a commitment.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To talk.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We got that commitment last night.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Deflect, deflect, deflect.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to help primary and secondary school parents to cope with school costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8427/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase the number of special education teachers, special needs assistants, and special classes to ensure that every child with special or additional needs receives appropriate supports in their preferred school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8426/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase investment in education per student to at least a level equal to OECD average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8428/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase recruitment and retention of primary and secondary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8425/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (27 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the hot meals programme menus cater for all food allergies and if the ingredients and cooking methods reach the standards for healthy eating as per the standards outlined by the WHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8608/25]
- The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish the Minister the best of luck with her new brief. It is important she succeeds for the sake of hundreds of thousands of people who rely on the health service every year and indeed for the workers who provide the healthcare. I apologise in advance that I will need to leave because I am simultaneously participating in the Dáil reform committee and therefore I will not be here for...
- Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is me, then Deputies Connolly and O'Gorman. The Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine was an absolutely brutal, unjustified, criminal action and he should get out. Putin should get out of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have the absolute right to resist that brutal invasion and occupation. However, particularly the powers that dominate NATO, the US, Germany and the UK, are not reliable...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not good examples.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single opinion polls show the majority of people are in favour of neutrality.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever. They also, in their hundreds of thousands, protested about decisions of previous Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments to allow millions of US troops to go through Shannon Airport to assist US-UK led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, where hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered on the basis of lies put out by the US. The coalition Government of which the Tánaiste...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We got the triple lock.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The US context has changed too.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The point of the UN part of the triple lock is that we do not deploy troops in conflicts between the big imperial powers. The Minister is right: Putin is a nasty imperialist aggressor. However, is it not interesting that he does not call Trump a nasty imperialist aggressor when he has just said to the Ukrainians, "We might consider giving you a few weapons, but only if you give us all those...