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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure whether the Taoiseach answered on whether the Cabinet committee on housing will meet before the summer recess. He might repeat what he said if he did. It is very important the housing committee meets before the summer recess to tackle a number of things. One of them is the one I have mentioned as it is a serious issue, namely, that the eligibility criteria for cost rental do...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Taoiseach which Cabinet sub-committees will meet before the summer recess. [28607/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach painted a rather rosy picture of the Government's progress in addressing the problems of the health service. A very different picture was presented by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association on Friday in a press statement it put out, detailing that 893,000 people are now on some form of National Treatment Purchase Fund waiting list, that a further 250,000 people are waiting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health is next due to meet. [28606/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [28603/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is interesting that the Taoiseach was talking about the difficulty of the leaving certificate mathematics exam when it is clear there are problems understanding mathematics in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The competitiveness challenge report highlighted the vital need to address the high cost of housing and one of the centrepieces of the Government's response...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank God for that.

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my condolences to those offered to the family of Christy Dignam, as Deputy Smith did. Christy was a legend in music and a beautiful singer. He was a working-class hero and I suspect his songs will be sung for a long time, if not forever. He will be greatly missed but his legacy will live on. It would probably surprise many people that we have a situation where there is such a thing...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, should we first hear from Dr. Killian?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be good to hear from her as well.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Clarken and Mr. Murtagh of Oxfam and Professor Killian for their contributions. I am very glad the committee is examining this. As Mr. Clarken said, it is a discussion whose time has come. I would say it is overdue but it has never been more appropriate that it should happen. I overwhelmingly agree with what Oxfam said. What it is proposing in its wealth tax proposal is, if...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Billion or million?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Taxation of Assets and Wealth: Discussion with Oxfam (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we get to hear a response from-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cross-Border Co-operation (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to particularly welcome the South African delegation to remind the Taoiseach of a very particular relationship that exists between this country, South Africa and Palestine. We had the first version of apartheid with the penal laws. These were systematic discrimination which contributed very substantially to the Famine in this country. The people of South Africa struggled...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national reform programme for the European semester recently published by his Department. [26164/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The NRP acknowledges the problems with assessments of need but has less to say, when one has obtained an assessment, about the resources that are made available. I will give the Taoiseach an example. The case involving Theo, who is 13, and his parents, is quite urgent. Theo has severe autism and intellectual disability. He is in residential care but he has not been in a school...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Neither do the Americans.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not suggesting that Israel is planning to withdraw.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet again, it is noticeable that despite the sort of laudable concerns the Taoiseach had about human rights at the Council of Europe, there was no mention of Palestine. Yesterday I met with the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel. I met its representatives again at the Joint Committee...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the Council of Europe. [24732/23]