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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the Cabinet committees on which he sits. [46433/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach again about the Government's attitude towards preventing people ending up homeless. Obviously I think it was an absolutely disastrous decision by the Government to lift the eviction ban. The majority of people who end up homeless do so because they are evicted through no fault of their own. With regard to the other element of why people end up homeless I will cite...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the State apologies issued by Taoisigh in each of the past ten years, and to date in 2023. [43876/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned the State apology to mothers and children who went through the mother and baby home institutions, but the fact is that approximately 24,000 people who went through those institutions as children were excluded from the redress scheme. The redress scheme is still not open for applications, which is pretty incredible given the age of many of these people. The exclusion...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Connolly and Pringle for moving this motion, which we are glad to support to try, at this critical movement, to stop the deliberate, sly push by the Government to abandon our neutrality. In the short time available to me, let me make an obvious point. Let us look at the strength of language and the litany of adjectives used by Government spokespeople to describe the brutal...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In broad terms, I think this Finance Bill has failed to address the cost-of-living and housing crises that are imposing such hardship on hundreds of thousands of families and workers in this country. It could have done so, but, as is typical of this Government, it failed to do so. This failure is driven by a commitment to always protect the haves over the have-nots, the very wealthy over...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The severity and extent of our housing crisis is shameful in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, but it will also increasingly become, and is already, an economic problem. When workers cannot afford to live because rents and house prices are so high, that is a serious economic problem. It is increasingly the case that people are going out to work and working very hard but rents...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the economic policy unit of his Department. [43875/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [41216/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made it very clear that it is quite shameful what people like Ursula von der Leyen and some of the European Union states have done to essentially give carte blancheto Israel to commit war crimes against the people of Gaza, and indeed their failure to hold that regime to account over many years for its crimes against the Palestinian people. I will refer to a particularly disturbing case...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Torren is 11, has autism spectrum disorder, ASD, is non-verbal, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, ADHD, and an intellectual disability. He has been homeschooled until now, but as he gets older his behaviour is deteriorating and his mother cannot cope. It has been recommended by the children's disability network team, CDNT, and the child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [43867/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has committed himself to try to address the completely chronic homelessness crisis which continues to get worse month in, month out. I appeal to him once again to look at a particular cohort of people who are above the social housing income thresholds because they are working. Yesterday, I had another woman in my clinic who works in a major hospital in my area, is now homeless...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the two-state solution that has failed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, I am horrified by every single death but, you see, the world is responsible for failing to call out the reality of the Israeli regime. It is an apartheid regime. It was set up on the basis of the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians. It has sustained itself through the ethnic cleansing - ongoing - of Palestinians day in, day out, in East Jerusalem, across the West Bank,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a simple question for the Taoiseach. How many innocent Palestinian civilians - men, women and children - does Israel have to slaughter, how many war crimes does Israel have to commit, and how much death and destruction does Israel have to visit on the people of Gaza and Palestine before the Taoiseach will call for and impose sanctions on Israel, expel the Israeli ambassador from this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the Taoiseach move beyond words of concern, impose sanctions and expel the ambassador of this apartheid, murderous state?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been any reduction in the VAT rate applied to sports and fitness classes in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46309/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a person (details supplied) can take a matter further as advised by the Board of Education when their daughter who is legally blind was refused a place on the basis that she could not complete the visual part of the entry assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46324/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Someone does not need to be a rocket scientist to work out why people are dropping out of college. Of course, if people actually studying to be a rocket scientist they would be living on less than the living income, as we know from our PhD students, but we have covered that ground. The Minister mentioned the increase in core funding. The Government accepted that there was a shortfall of...