Results 321-340 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It will be a three-state solution-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach can just say "Yes" or "No".
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Palestinians are the victims; they are not the aggressors.
- Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The simple reason we have a housing disaster in this country is that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have danced to the tune of greedy, profit-driven speculators, vulture funds and corporate landlords. The response to the resulting crisis, which has left us with 100,000 families waiting for more than a decade on housing lists, unaffordable rents and unaffordable house prices, is for the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a TUD course.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could crack the whip with TUD as well.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is new in the job at the Department and I ask him to intervene on behalf of lecturers in the British and Irish Modern Music, BIMM, institute. Four of those lecturers are here in the Public Gallery. They were all on the picket lines earlier. I was with them today on Thomas Street. They have been forced to take strike action and mount protests because of absolutely shameful...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: TUD is publicly funded. Some 80% of the students at BIMM are on courses provided by TUD. It gives €3 million in direct funding to BIMM and the SUSI grants and other moneys the students receive go to BIMM. It is public money. The Minister does have responsibility. He cannot wash his hands of this. Given his responsibility for higher education, the Minister has an interest in...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have still not had a discussion on the Housing Commission report that we have been asking for a debate on since it was published seven or eight months ago.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As was requested at the Business Committee, we are looking for a discussion on the housing crisis and the announcements the Government is making and an opportunity to question the new Minister about the Government's crazy housing proposals.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We want to question the Minister.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is planning to further expand the gravy train of ministerial jobs and allowances and it is doing it with a guillotine to suppress proper debate and discussion of the expanded gravy train it is planning. This is completely unacceptable. There should not be a guillotine. Additionally, we have had very alarming pronouncements made by the Taoiseach that he is planning to,...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is planning any engagements with his counterparts in the USA or the EU administrations in relation to Donald Trump's proposal to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4492/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been in discussions with international counterparts in relation to the definition of antisemitism by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4491/25]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Artificial Intelligence (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a detailed breakdown of all funding allocated for the year ahead or spent in the past fiscal year by his Department on artificial intelligence systems or artificial intelligence research; and what programmes or Department operations, if any, are conducted using artificial intelligence tools. [3870/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Sales (11 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that went sale agreed in 2024; how many of these were apartments and how many were houses; the number bought by individuals; the number bought by institutions; the number bought by local authorities; how many of the individuals that bought these homes were first-time buyers; and if he will make a...
- Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Lies, lies, lies. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael won the election based on a pack of lies about some of the most serious issues facing the country, whether that is housing, the crisis in the health service, looking after the disabled and those who need care-----
- Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the issue of Palestine.
- Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know what you are going to say; we will call it misleading, then.