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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or its complicity in those crimes-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in giving it impunity for genocide, illegal occupation and apartheid. I will finish by saying there is a national demonstration at 1 o'clock this Saturday-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in solidarity with Palestine.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Believe me, they are very critical of this Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not the United States which gives-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel's ongoing genocidal, year-long massacre in Gaza and now its savage assault on Lebanon have triggered a terrifying escalation of conflict and violence that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. It is worth saying that the state that is guilty of this massacre in Gaza and that is attacking Lebanon has nuclear weapons and has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will see. Why does the Government still refuse to pass that Bill? Why does it not ban all overflights of weapons being carried by Israel? The Government denied that such flights were happening but now we know that they were happening in Irish airspace. Why does it not ban all flights carrying weapons through Shannon Airport? Why does it refuse to condemn the United States for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the US military to use Shannon when it is up to its neck in the crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza and Lebanon and which are now threatening to escalate into an all-out regional war?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, rather than moving the Ukrainian families from a location (details supplied), he will engage with the owners who would like to continue to accommodate these families and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39174/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I contacted the Minister some time ago about this case. On 7 October, 29 residents, including ten children, six family groups and two additional married couples, all of whom are Ukrainians fleeing the war and are living in a former commercial building in the Blackrock-Stillorgan area, will have to leave. They have been there since Christmas 2022. The children are at school, many, if not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a deadline looming and what we are doing about it is not clear to the community people supporting the residents and the residents because it is next Monday. It is very instructive to look at who these residents are in terms of the employment in which they are engaged. One is a pharmacist assistant, one is a lab worker in UCD, one is a construction worker, one is a carpenter, one is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds positive and I will relay back what the Minister is saying but why bring problems upon or put extra pressure on himself or discommode these people and the local community when it is not necessary? Hopefully, that solution will work. I know that in terms of contacting the Department of Social Protection about rent supplement, that has not been fully processed. Perhaps the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not for tourism.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the discussions he had with the Minister for Social Protection in advance of Budget 2025 with regard to guaranteeing an income for those with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39175/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the shortage of school buses for a school (details supplied), which means that after four weeks of school term, some students are still without transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39227/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a report on the number of sanctioned whole-time posts across CDNTs in September 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024; details of whether these posts are filled or vacant and, broken down by CHO and discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39409/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 242. To ask the Minister for Health if a CT scanner has ever been considered or approved for installation in St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; if so, the outcome; where the scanner is now; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39330/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 256. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a report on the number of sanctioned whole-time posts in the Ireland East Hospital Group in September in 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024; the details of whether these posts are filled or vacant and, broken down by hospital and discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 257. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a report on the numbers of sanctioned whole-time posts across CAMHS in September 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024; the details of whether these posts are filled or vacant and broken down by CHO and discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39410/24]

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To my mind if we are going to put any kind of stamp duty to try to deter these profit-driven investment funds from bulk buying properties, it should be 100%. Otherwise we are wasting our time. That is what it should be because there is nothing good about these investment funds bulk buying homes. It is disgraceful that apartments are not included. Most of what is being built at the moment...