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European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like the Minister of State to respond to my comments on the shocking double standard of rightly condemning the authoritarian, brutal, murderous and warmongering activities of Putin in Ukraine on the one hand and, on the other, collaborating and having arrangements with regimes that do exactly the same thing. I would like the Minister of State to elaborate on the question of Tunisia,...

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If you read the statement from the Taoiseach about the issues discussed at the European Council, you might on the face of it say they are reasonable, even admirable, things to be saying, in terms of the justifiable criticism of what Russia has done and is doing in Ukraine and the murder, brutality, kidnapping of children and generally criminal nature of the intervention by Russia’s...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I, too, want to press the Taoiseach on dates for the referendums on keeping water services and infrastructure in public ownership and on housing, both of which have been promised by the Government. The Government keeps echoing the mantra that housing is its biggest priority. The most severe social crisis facing the country, which it certainly is, is that hundreds of thousands of people, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [34015/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his attendance at the European Council on 29 and 30 June 2023. [34009/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nuclear weapons are probably the most monstrous invention of humanity. Coming fairly close behind them are cluster munitions. As the Taoiseach knows, this country was the locale and one of the major promoters of the Convention on Cluster Munitions to ban them, with more than 100 countries signing up to it. Then this weekend we had the spectacle of US President Joe Biden talking about the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not have a problem with the Government spending money on genuine public service information with the national broadcaster. As an aside, there is a need, however, to address as a matter of urgency the more general issue of the impact of commercial and advertising on the controversies that have unfolded in RTÉ. It was notable, although not entirely credible, that Noel Kelly was, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could that include people who do not tick those boxes but need help and a place to go? There are people who do not fit into these categories. I welcome the proposal but-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So do I.

Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2023: (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Advertising (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the amount spent on advertising with RTÉ by his Department in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [34008/23]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Teo is 13 years of age. He is on the severe end of the autism spectrum and is in residential care. If he does not get a school place this September, it will be his third year out of school, which is shameful. He is being told there are no school places with the supports and resources that are necessary for him available and that the only option for him is home tuition. His parents want...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Probably a special school.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Councils know.

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to invest.

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for being late. I was outside the gates of Leinster House at a protest on the cost of living. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this important motion. I am very grateful to grassroots football for the role it played in my life, instilling certain discipline, experience and education about the importance of working together with others, team discipline,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure an invitation is extended to an organisation (details supplied) to the Research and Innovation Policy Advisory Forum; whether there are defined criteria within his Department for the selection of representatives at the advisory forum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34570/23]