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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With the publication of the summer economic statement today, the debate on what will happen in the budget is going to crank up. I want the Taoiseach to think about the fact that the cost of disability report suggests that people with disabilities have additional costs of €7,000 to €9,000 per year, but the disability allowance is €220 per week. In other words, the vast...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a lot of people who are just trapped through no fault of their own.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on health will next meet. [32540/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with disability will next meet [32550/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I extend my deepest sympathies and condolences to the families, friends and classmates of Max Wall and Andrew O'Donnell. I simply cannot imagine the unbearable sense of loss, tragedy and devastation being felt by their families and friends. I also extend all my sympathy to the St. Michael's school community who have to bear this terrible loss. Does the Taoiseach think we owe a State...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Children first.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Thursday, there is a debate on Ireland's further participation in the European Defence Agency. This is a mouthpiece for the European arms industry. The Taoiseach is planning to further involve us with this organisation, which represents those who make profits from producing weapons that are sold to, among other places, countries like Israel to murder Palestinians. Not only do European...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Film Industry (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 268. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or the relevant senior official in his Department will meet with representatives from an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the procedures dealing with cases in the WRC involving the employment rights of workers in the film industry; if such a meeting could be arranged prior to the summer recess; to confirm whether...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if money granted by Caranua to a survivor of an institution that was to be used, only for household goods, but not yet used may still be claimed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32110/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the appalling conditions that 3,000 bulls and heifers were subjected to on 30 May 2023 on a shipment of cattle that left Greenore Port in Ireland, with the destination of Haifa port in Israel; the animal welfare regulations and inspections that are in place to prevent these cruel conditions; if there are animal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 624. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are being implemented to rectify the situation where nursing homes prior to the fair deal scheme were mischarging residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32390/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In addition, there are issues relating to the copyright directive and the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act is not being complied with. We need to address that culture.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my view, the stakes are very high in the RTÉ secret payments scandal, and the impact it has on public service broadcasting. I do not want to live in a world where the only sources of news and broadcasting are Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg and big for-profit corporations. At least public service broadcasting is supposed to be not-for-profit and serving the public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will you stop?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not mention any names.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my view, a plot was hatched to conceal these secret payments from the public, from the Oireachtas and from the workers of RTÉ, to launder that payment through Renault, and to mislabel that payment as a consultancy when it was clearly not a consultancy. It was a payment to an individual, which a group of people or individuals wished to conceal from the public. The public was always...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This suggests the Government and this House have to be responsible for a massive culture shift to end that sort of obnoxious inequality-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and to restore the credibility of public service broadcasting.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not. The Ceann Comhairle clearly misheard me.