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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on. Give me a break.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is shocking.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It sells arms to dictatorships like Saudi Arabia.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he is planning to update the national reform programme for 2022. [11771/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [12792/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The pre-condition for well-being of the people of this country is for them to have a secure, affordable roof over their heads. One of the standing scandals in that regard, besides the abysmal failure of the Government to deliver new public and affordable housing, is the inability to deal with the utter scandal of vacant and derelict properties the length and breadth of the country. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the contributors. I am standing in for our health spokesperson, Deputy Gino Kenny, today. I thank all the healthcare workers and those present today for the fantastic work they have done under extremely difficult circumstances. This includes ambulance drivers, porters, nurses, doctors and midwives. Across the whole gamut, they have had a very difficult time. Unfortunately,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank our witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I ask one other question, and Dr. Molloy can then come back with his contribution? I ask our guests to comment on a phenomenon which strikes me. When I hear about the constant overcrowding in our emergency departments, I am simultaneously listening to the radio in the car and hearing advertisements to come to the Beacon or the Blackrock Clinic, etc., to receive emergency care there....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why should a religious body own it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They then wait 20 years for a building.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is land right beside the hospital. Use a compulsory purchase order.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not so much Saudi Arabia.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus, they just chop up people with swords.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just against all dictators.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the same in Yemen.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is selling arms to the Saudi dictatorship. The Taoiseach does not want to mention that. It is embarrassing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach certainly does.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [12791/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, this is International Women's Day. In this country, church organisations have played a pretty terrible role, historically, in their treatment of women and their denial of rights to women. This is something we have begun to overcome with the successful campaigns to repeal the eighth amendment, for marriage equality and so forth. Yet, it is still the intention of this...