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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the interference with the market-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am with Mr. Hall 100%. We will see. Mr. Hall has put his finger on it. It is the nonsense that we cannot interfere with the market.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will keep pushing. I thank the witnesses for their testimony and Mr. Hall for his work. I hope we can put enough pressure on the Government to do something because, clearly, it is an intolerable situation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Equality Issues (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many disturbing and unacceptable aspects to the homelessness crisis but undoubtedly one of the worst of them is the number of children living in homeless situations. It is difficult to overstate how much the State is letting down children who have to endure emergency accommodation and homelessness, particularly for long periods. I have raised multiple times in here the case of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Equality Issues (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department’s public sector duty equality and human rights assessment. [29536/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Data (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland, overseen by his Department. [29535/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Data (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Monday, a young woman with her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, both of whom are homeless, came into me and said they had nowhere to go. I got into the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and in fairness, it responded quickly and they got a placement. Then I got a text from the young woman saying the place was not the best and was absolutely manky. It stated the cooker was in reach of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [29534/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any fair-minded person who looks at this will see it is dripping and stacked to the rafters with pro-NATO people and people associated with the military-industrial complex. For example, there is not a single speaker from the Non-Aligned Movement. For people's information, that is the biggest movement of states in the world that do not associate or identify with the big military powers,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the weekend, President Higgins rang the alarm bells about the dangerous drift in Ireland's foreign policy away from neutrality and raised concerns about the composition of the Government's consultative forum. The President has to be somewhat constrained and diplomatic in what he says. However, what he said echoes what we have been trying to say for the past number of months, namely,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how a person (details supplied) can receive a permit for employment without immigration status, which is required for their worker's permit, but they cannot gain immigration status (stamp 1) without a worker's permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29142/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the defective apartments and duplexes redress scheme will be enacted; if retrospective applications for redress will be included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29324/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how a person (details supplied) may gain immigration status given that their stamp 1G visa has expired and they wish to continue working in Ireland with no need to pursue further education, but they have been refused a working permit on the grounds of immigration status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth 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 he will make a statement on the matter. [29208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 563. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 16 May 2023, the reason for the removal of the service; if there is an intention to replace the service; if not, where else the service might be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29079/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has plans to fund the drug, dupilumab which is used to treat a form of asthma, under the reimbursement scheme; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29408/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not on that. It is convenient for you.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Relations (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like the Taoiseach to comment on the imprisonment of Mr. Rached Ghannouchi. He is the elected Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament. I met his son at a Palestinian solidarity conference in Oslo a few weeks ago. He is very worried about his father because he is 81 years old. Mr. Ghannouchi is a renowned human rights activist and writer and was a central figure in the Arab Spring....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were just attacking her bias.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.