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Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [53229/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 3 of 2022 will be published. [53577/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the next two weeks, People Before Profit and others will be doing everything to urge people to get out in their many thousands on the streets of Dublin on the Saturday after next for the Raise the Roof housing protest. One of the components of that protest will be people from places such as Tathony House, another multi-unit apartment complex in Rathmines, St. Helen's Court in my own...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Agreed.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the Government position but it is not Ireland’s position.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an outrageous invasion, but the Government did not say this about the Iraq war in the context of neutrality-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And sacrifice everything else.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting of the European Council in Prague. [53576/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once again, we have further evidence of the Government trying to soften up public opinion to abandoning Ireland's neutrality. In respect of the Ukraine conflict, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, stated that we were not neutral. This begs the question of what neutrality means if we abandon it when there is a conflict. The Minister went on to say that people should talk to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach want parallel courts to cover it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We can develop trade between Canada and any other country without introducing a system that bypasses the court system and which favours multinational investors. I will tell the Taoiseach what I do not want, and this is the connection between housing and CETA. I do not want what has happened to the United States, which is that the National Apartment Association, which represents big...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, told this House that we could not ban further fossil fuel extraction because of the threat of possible legal action by fossil fuel companies.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not say this is a red herring. It is true, and you will not even let people have a say on it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Eamon Ryan told this House we would be sued.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should read Eamon Ryan's comments on the climate emergency Bill.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Read the judgment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to a referendum whereby the people could debate and vote on whether they want to be part of this dangerous agreement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I did not. I connected the housing issue to CETA.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying it is another reason with CETA.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, I attended the press launch of the Raise the Roof campaign at which trade unions, student unions, housing groups, anti-poverty groups and many more, including Opposition parties, outlined details of the national housing demonstration that will take place in Dublin city centre on the Saturday after next. We expect many thousands of people to take to the streets to demand action...