Results 361-380 of 26,831 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sallynoggin. Since I raised this, the people are still in there and still looking to get out. By the way, the Rialto Action Group took a legal case against Dublin City Council some years ago because these kinds of conditions are a breach of the European Social Charter. The group won the case. The Sallynoggin case is similar. These people's rights are being breached by the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government refers to work-life balance, quality of life, quality employment and it even contains the phrase "a secure future for all living things", which is quite a noble ambition. I want to shout out for a group of workers very close at hand who do not have any of those things. They are the majority of people who work for Oireachtas TV, who broadcast proceedings from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree with me?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have a place on the commission but the Government has a place.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just thought I would start the ball rolling.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was only raised with me last week.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach support them?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I bet you I have been on more protests outside the Russian embassy than you have.

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.