Results 521-540 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the ICC gone.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand the context.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems to me that there is a crisis in terms of the EU's commitment to even its own human rights legislation and to international law. The newly elected Chancellor of Germany has invited Benjamin Netanyahu to Germany. This is somebody who has an arrest warrant out for him by the ICC for genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the new German Chancellor is inviting him to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why do we have a staffing crisis then?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no staff.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is on staff.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [6428/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach was caught out misleading the public, to put it kindly, on the housing completion numbers to try to win an election. Will he now admit that the crisis in our health service is also another area where he has been misleading the public about what is actually going on with regard to the lack of staffing across the health services? This has prompted all of the health workers...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [6087/25]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A lot of Members are not here so we could double up on the questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Due to the Victorian decrepit water infrastructure in much of my area - this is probably true of much of the city, but it is certainly true of Dún Laoghaire - when it rains, the run-off water mixes with foul water and the foul water all goes into the pumping station in Dún Laoghaire, which cannot cope and therefore foul water goes into the sea, destroying water quality and making...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the establishment of a Cabinet committee on water quality. [6086/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A more honest answer.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Taoiseach's Questions?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is trying to undermine democracy by insisting that the Lowry and Healy-Rae groups can be part of the Government and simultaneously be part of the Opposition-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----taking up its speaking time, committee places and resources. This is clearly an effort to minimise the ability of the Opposition to scrutinise the Government. Another example of that is that this week for the third time, every single week, instead of two appearances by the Taoiseach at Taoiseach's Questions, he will appear only once this week. The fact that it is not a coincidence...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That would further reduce the Government's exposure to interrogation, not just by the Opposition but by its own backbenchers whom it claims to care so much about.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an alliance of the left.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 325. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Central Bank is not acting in a manner that might be complicit with genocide given that the bank is continuing to allow Israel to sell Israeli bonds in EU Member States, despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide and the ongoing South African case at the ICJ...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assistance is available to families who go above the income threshold for social housing supports due to the automatic payment of working family payment arising from a reduction in income that year, and therefore lose their cumulative waiting time on the housing list. [7451/25]