Results 261-280 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not allowed use the word "lies" in here, so instead we will have to say the Government is systematically misleading people about why we have a recruitment and retention crisis in our health services in general and, specifically, in our mental health services. It fails to acknowledge the reason we cannot recruit or are not recruiting the staff we need - psychologists, psychiatrists,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not happening in Drew Harris's case.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sort this one out.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Dublin and Monaghan bombings were the single biggest atrocity in one day of the entire Troubles when 33 people were killed in bombings that Loyalist paramilitaries admitted they carried out, almost certainly with the collusion of the British Government. The Taoiseach should ask for Britain to release all the files and information available about those atrocities but he is in a very weak...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [6085/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said earlier he cared about workers. Where is this Government's respect for 27,000 section 39 workers who look after the disabled, elderly and vulnerable and who still have not received the 8% pay rise agreed in the WRC and who still do not have the parity that was promised with workers employed directly by the health service? I was talking this morning to home care workers...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was grimly amused by the Taoiseach's suggestion earlier today that he was calling for a housing debate.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been asking every week since the publication of the 250-page Housing Commission report - commissioned by the Government - for a debate on that report and the Government has run away from it every single week for nine months, and again this week. Can we finally have the debate the Taoiseach says he wants on the Housing Commission report that the Government published? Of course, we...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How do you know? You will not debate it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You have been saying that for nine months. Nine months you have been saying it for.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Talk about untruths.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But you do not turn up for those debates.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want the Minister to come in and talk about the Housing Commission.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is your report.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will pay higher bills with the Taoiseach's policy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who told you that, Elon Musk?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What we get is very different.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Please, if we could-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been asking for-----