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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: New computers for the HSE might help.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was appalling.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department’s Covid-19 and health unit. [7682/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent meeting with the British Prime Minister. [7681/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Eighteen years ago, the British Government was critical in supporting the US Government in telling a pack of lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Those lies were used to justify a murderous war in that country, albeit against the nasty regime of Saddam Hussein. However, the premise of the war a pack of lies that had been recycled by the British Government and the US Government....

Mobility and Transport Supports for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this very important motion. As has already been said, the question of transport for people with disabilities is absolutely critical. Without a decent transport system, every aspect of their lives is diminished. This includes access to education, employment, a social life and everything. As a result, people with disabilities suffer disproportionately...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No problem. I am glad Deputy Healy-Rae is okay.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From where does the benchmark of 34% to which Mr. Lawler referred come? Is it standard across Europe that pensions should be 34% of average earnings? It is not a lot. He stated that average earnings are €44,000 at the moment. It is not really a lot. What is the particular rationale for that figure? Is it just tradition? Where does it come from? Is there any variation across...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not particularly. It is for anybody who feels like responding.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have a policy on this now so no indexation per sewas considered in the context of the budget. In the options made available to the Government now or which could be made available to the committee, Governments or anybody considering the matter coming up to a budget, how easy would it be to set out what the different options for indexation would deliver in advance of a budget? That...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does. I thank all the contributors.

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The utterly hopeless and disastrous situation in which many working people find themselves when it comes to trying to do the basic thing of putting a roof over their heads was summed up this week for me by a young man who came into my clinic. He works in retail and he is a low-paid worker. He works in retail and he worked all during the pandemic. His partner is also in low-pay, part-time...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On economic recovery, the Taoiseach is often fond of saying, rightly, that we should support people who are working. I have asked the Taoiseach repeatedly about the plight of people who are working but who are punished because their income goes over the social income threshold. I have mentioned multiple cases to the Taoiseach over recent weeks. I had another case this week of a young...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The review.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The longest consideration ever.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is self-evident.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Call it out for Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has nothing to say about Saudi Arabia then.