Results 41-60 of 25,546 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it seven minutes or two minutes?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We probably would not have enough time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people of this country in their majority have long recognised Palestine. Finally, the Government has caught up with the people. It is a pity it has taken seven months of a genocidal massacre in Gaza and decades of ethnic cleansing by Israel, illegal occupation, the siege of Gaza and brutal suppression of Palestinian rights, but it is a step forward. It will mean very little if it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any sensible person knows there is a climate and biodiversity emergency and that, if we do not address them, we will be in trouble. As much as the far right want to deny it, the impacts will cost our society very dearly. We have to recognise that large numbers of people have become alienated from the climate action and biodiversity action agenda because they see climate action as a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions he has had with other world leaders in connection with the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. [22692/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Policy (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the final Climate Action Plan 2023 progress report, published by his Department in March 2024. [22691/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [21751/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a local issue but it speaks volumes about a bigger one. I was pretty shocked by an advertisement I was sent last night relating to Dalkey Garda station, which is up for sale. It has been sitting derelict for about a decade. I cannot believe it is being sold. Local community groups and other organisations are crying out for spaces to use, we have a massive housing crisis, there is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apartheid does not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is an apartheid-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not agree with that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As equals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have 50% social and affordable on all developments, as we have asked for.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have 50% social and affordable of all housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Seven months of public outrage and protests have finally forced the Government to recognise the state of Palestine. I hope that is going to be accompanied by sanctions. I wish to discuss another protest that will happen this Saturday at the Customs House over the Government’s failed housing policies. This comes at an appropriate moment, given that the Housing Commission has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has probably read it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not had a chance yet.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government gave it to the press, not to us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For those who are not convinced by the Taoiseach's answer, the housing protest will be outside Customs House at 2.30 p.m. this Saturday. I hope people will come out onto the streets for it. No one disputes that there will be a private sector in housing, but the private sector should not be subsidised at the expense of delivering the social and affordable housing that it is incapable of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been phoning the journalist to try to get it.