Results 281-300 of 27,016 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Oh, Jesus.
- Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have any time to do anything.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They said they were going to leave after one hour.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not compare the two.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These protestors were sitting down.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They said they would leave after one hour.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Israeli war bonds. That is complicity. Absolutely it is.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Israeli war bonds.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach how he intends to increase the coordination role of his Department in national security. [12374/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly advise people to read George Orwell's book 1984 in which the world is divided into three blocs and governments tell people to live in fear of the others all the time to justify increasing authoritarianism and more expenditure on arms and weapons while working people are kept down and denied the money that is going into weapons and arms, which should go into health, education and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely disgusting. These were peaceful women protestors on a Mother's Day protest. Does the Taoiseach condone that kind of treatment of people who were a threat to nobody? It is absolutely outrageous behaviour. Does the Taoiseach condemn that? Is that where we are heading? Is that the sort of society we are heading for? They were protesting about our continued complicity with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I note the poor oppressed Government backbenchers are getting plenty of opportunities to speak today. As of tomorrow, they will have half the time to raise important issues like our response to storms, despite the Taoiseach's claims that he is standing up for their rights. One group that we will not be able to talk about as much is the ambulance drivers of the National Ambulance Service,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is less exposure for the Taoiseach.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he has had with the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in the days before, during and after storm Éowyn. [15506/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications he has had with the United Nations in relation to Ireland’s departure from the UN mandate to deploy troops abroad; the interdepartmental communications he has had in relation to maintaining Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15535/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 172. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications he has had with the European Union and the United States regarding the provision of arms and economic support to Israel following Israel’s breach of ceasefire in Gaza and escalating settler violence in the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15533/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional measures he is proposing to the EU to impose sanctions on Israel given the ongoing and worsening attacks in the West Bank and Gaza following the breach of ceasefire by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15532/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (1 Apr 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional sanctions against Israel is he proposing given that Israel broke ceasefire with Hamas and killed of over 800 civilians; if he is planning to cut trade ties with Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15534/25]