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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.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a person (details supplied) will receive their SPSV licence, given that they applied over seven months ago, with no information on its status being communicated to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48843/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are different aspects to these amendments but all of them revolve around the critical question of quality employment and training, whether it is for actors, writers, directors, performers or crew. I hope the Minister is hearing, because we certainly heard at the budget scrutiny committee where we examined this matter in detail, and it is a matter I have been raising at every Finance...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When was that? Could the Minister repeat that?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, can I-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we not discuss them as a group? I thought we would discuss them-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister have a chance to respond, finally?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is slightly odd that we have done it this way. We are going to go back in after a vote and continue debating the same grouping.