Results 261-280 of 26,831 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not given one example.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am listening very carefully.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is waging a very thinly veiled stealth war against Irish neutrality. The move to remove the triple lock is part of that very conscious and deliberate campaign by this Government to undermine our traditional neutrality. Can the Tánaiste please explain why the Government is getting rid of the triple lock? Is it not clearly just a move to undermine Ireland's traditional...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not trust Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael with Irish neutrality. For example, the Department of Defence has just contracted a US defence agency based in the pentagon to redesign the Irish Defence Forces. In the blurb on its website, this US pentagon-based company says it is grounded in American values. Maybe they are the values of Donald Trump as he has shown in a video the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There certainly is a delay with the committees and the business of the House is being stalled because of that. That is solely the responsibility of the Government for trying to overstep the mark of all previous convention and trying to muddy the waters between the Government and the Opposition for its own advantage, and to neuter the Opposition. It is not good enough for it to have a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will there be pre-legislative scrutiny?
- Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing forward the motion. As others have, I pay tribute to those in the Public Gallery for coming here today and for having the courage to speak up, and to advocate and campaign on this issue. Their presence is hugely important because listening to the Government and some of the contributions here, they might think that there is a very clear determination to...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail any cooperation between his Department and NATO, including, but not limited to, PESCO and the EU Common Security and Defence Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6081/25]
- 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]