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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has echoed the scapegoating.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. The Taoiseach used language that was dangerous.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach used dangerous language.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach used dangerous and dishonest language, suggesting things that are simply not true about asylum seekers and people exiting direct provision, when it is the Government which has exacerbated the homelessness crisis by lifting the no-fault eviction ban and by failing to address the deficit in social and affordable housing. Why does the Minister not ask the Taoiseach to stop...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the oldest tricks in the book of a cynical government under pressure is the tactic of divide and conquer, and scapegoating innocent people for that government's own failing. That is what we heard from the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, over the weekend, when he essentially hung a target on the backs of asylum seekers, people exiting direct provision and immigrants generally by suggesting-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that they were responsible for the housing crisis.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she supports permanently increasing both child benefit and qualified child payments in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37620/24]

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One hundred and ten thousand.

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The efforts and programmes the Minister of State spoke about might make some difference. I wish that, instead of me, the parents and teachers of the children in question were here responding to what she said. They are the ones who know how the system is failing their children, despite all the efforts, promises and programmes from the Government. Like Deputy Gino Kenny said, the debates on...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the outset, let me thank former judge, Mr. Justice Bernard Barton, for giving me a briefing on this issue some time ago and apologise to him - he is probably watching - that I have not been able to get back to him in the past two days. It has been a bit manic in advance of this debate. However, I am cognisant of his strong views on this Bill and I agree with them and with the concerns...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister help the people I mentioned?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite the Minister's claims of success and his promises and commitments, while the Dáil was in recess the human misery resulting from the housing and homelessness crisis continued and escalated. Given that the Housing Commission and now the Central Bank have told us that the Government's plan, Housing for All, provides for approximately half of what is necessary to deal with the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----with no prospect of being able to afford the private rents that are out there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been campaigning on the Shanganagh site, which the Minister will open tomorrow, for 18 years. It has taken us 18 years to develop a public site to deliver 600 social and affordable houses. At that rate, we are facing a grim and long housing crisis. By the way, we still do not know what the price of the affordable housing there will be. There will be 200 social houses. There are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister please do something about the thresholds? People have spent 15, 16 and 17 years on the list and then that time is gone.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dick Shakespeare was my manager in UCD when we won the Collingwood Cup in soccer. He has an interest in soccer and I am glad to hear that positive response in Dublin city. That needs to be generalised everywhere. There has also got to be a focus on clubs which have a particular community remit. It is not just about the high performance stuff, although that can be important, as we have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Local authorities should not be so controlling when we are talking about the development of facilities.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, given Ireland's success at the 2024 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, she agrees there is a need for a significant increase in public investment in grassroots sports, playing pitches, facilities and sports clubs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37009/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State could share the time among us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mentioned earlier the tremendous success of Jack Marley in the Olympic Games and, previously, in winning gold and silver at European level. I should also mention Robin O'Reilly, who is 14, also from Monkstown Boxing Club. She started boxing when she was ten and has just won a bronze medal at European level. The important thing about that is that success is down to a club that was built...