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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with President Biden. [43866/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach often says there are no instant solutions to the housing crisis but I wish to suggest something the Government could do that could make a dramatic and rapid impact on it. I attended an ICTU conference on housing the other day where one of the other speakers was from Vienna. She pointed out that in Vienna now, 60% of all new developments are required to be social or affordable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The big investors are buying a lot of them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the committee on economy and investment will next meet. [42349/23]

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: First Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [43865/23]

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: First Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Paul Murphy is taking some of it. One and a half minutes.

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: First Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It depends on what one is the lead spokesperson for, or what particular portfolio one has. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to direct the Central Bank to cap interest rates on private dwelling house mortgages at 3 per cent; and to provide for related matters. Hundreds of thousands of mortgage holders in this country have been absolutely fleeced and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The barbaric slaughter that Israel is visiting on the people of Gaza and its publicly stated intention to ethnically cleanse 1 million Palestinians from northern Gaza under the threat of massive aerial bombardment are war crimes. Does the Taoiseach acknowledge that his constant references to Israel defending itself are completely inappropriate in the face of Israeli war crimes publicly...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is backing the corporations and forgetting about the thousands of postgraduate researchers holding our universities together.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with an utterly catastrophic housing and homelessness crisis and with unprecedented resources available to it, this Government did absolutely nothing in its budget to deliver additional social and affordable housing. It has decided, in its bloody-minded way, to stick to a plan that has left us with record and ever-worsening numbers of people in homelessness and where rents are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to see an end to all killing, all violence, all death, and the release of all prisoners and hostages.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem here is that I do not believe an apartheid regime has the right to exist anywhere. I do not believe a regime that engages in ongoing daily, weekly and monthly ethnic cleansing of another group of people based on their race or ethnicity-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which is what Israel is doing, has the right to perpetrate those crimes. These are crimes against humanity. This is a regime that for decades has denied UN resolutions calling for the right of return of Palestinians, millions of whom have been ethnically cleansed since 1948, and are living in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, cast to the winds of the world. They are denied...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course, he will not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am disappointed with the Taoiseach's remarks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Millions of Palestinians have no rights and no votes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I lived there; I know exactly what it is like.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that it is not okay for Israel to attack civilians and civilian infrastructure and to threaten to starve the people of Gaza. It most certainly is not okay; it is a war crime. The Israeli Government has brazenly, publicly and openly declared its intention to commit a war crime, and has commenced that war crime against the people of Gaza. It has said it intends to starve...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will always oppose this measure, which is a fairly significant increase this year, of 75 cent per packet of cigarettes. We do so because, of course, we completely support the view we need to reduce the number of smokers and the number of people who take up smoking and to encourage people to stop smoking. There is absolutely no question as to how bad it is for your...