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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----from this Government during the Covid pandemic?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The same company gave a 10% pay increase to British Airway workers. I forgot to say that.
- Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There have been no sanctions.
- Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No sanctions.
- Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "good offices to search for a peaceful settlement" "— further calls for Ireland to provide increased humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine and for Ireland to offer refuge for all people fleeing the war; — further condemns the arrests and persecution of anti-war protestors by President Putin and the Russian state;...
- Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, Deputy Coveney, will have his chance. I cannot help but call out the double standards, unless the Government will surprise me tomorrow. Instantly, it wants to and has imposed sanctions against Putin for crimes against humanity, which he is committing. They are crimes against humanity.
- Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to hold on and not to interrupt.
- Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Come on.
- Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Amnesty International is calling for sanctions against Israel for crimes against humanity and today we had a briefing from people from Yemen who talked about the direct involvement of the USA in supporting Saudi Arabia to commit crimes against humanity in Yemen. There is not a word about those things, but active support for the countries that do it or at least trenchant opposition to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yemeni lives are less important.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, because they are selling guns to the Saudis.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We cannot but call out the Government's double standards.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach support Amnesty's recommendations for sanctions against Israel?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: NATO is not their friend.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he is planning to update his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [7687/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry for standing up at the wrong time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Eager.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach’s Department's strategy statement lists a number of priorities. Priority E is, “Strengthening Ireland’s place in Europe and the world”. In the context of the current crisis, invasion and war in Ukraine, I want to know what that means. What is our role in this? Obviously, all of us believe that Putin should be stopped, that he should leave Ukraine...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and which failed to acknowledge, for example, that it conducted a bloody invasion and occupation very recently in Afghanistan and that it bombed Libya. I wonder is the Taoiseach's opposition to warmongers like Putin selective insofar as we seem to oppose some warmongers but not others. We had briefing today with people from Yemen. They asked why no action is being taken over the role...