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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [43248/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the 2024 climate action plan progress report published by his Department on 3 September 2024. [42882/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A new international team of researchers has just established that 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded and critically that land-based carbon absorption has collapsed completely, going way beyond the worst case scenarios of previous research. Forests, lakes, soils and so on that are supposed to be absorbing carbon are not doing it anymore, such is the level of deforestation, the poor...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss with Donald Tusk the fact the European Union's credibility is in absolute shreds because of the blatant double standards that are being displayed between its attitude toward legitimate resistance by the Ukrainian people against the brutal Russian invasion and the wholly different attitude to Palestinian people resisting a brutal, genocidal assault on Gaza and decades...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe the Government is deceiving the public about what is actually happening in the health service. While it claims it is trying to recruit people to the health service to fill the staff shortages to address the ever-growing waiting lists, which have now reached nearly 1 million people in various hospitals, or the 10,000 children waiting for assessments of need, the 110,000 children...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It absolutely is. I was talking to radiation therapists who will be in here later today. They say that despite capital investment in, for example, linear accelerators and scanners in Cork, Galway and St. Luke's, the machines are sitting idle because they do not have enough staff, and that if people leave, there is no guarantee at all that they will be replaced and there is no effort to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe the health workers. I do not believe the Government. The workers are saying that they are stressed and overworked, that staffing levels are not safe, that patient safety is being endangered and that they are utterly demoralised. The Taoiseach should tell the truth about what is happening in the health service and scrap the pay and numbers strategy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are getting nearer to the truth now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have my facts from the HSE.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course the numbers are growing. Our population is growing and the need is growing. Baffling people with figures that are out of context does not tell the real truth. Waiting lists are not falling, according to the hospital consultants the Taoiseach mentioned. They are saying they are going to increase by 11% this year, so we will have 746,000 people waiting for outpatient appointments...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I got the figures from the Government. I got them from the Taoiseach's Minister for Health.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach called it that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is understaffed.

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Duncan Smith and his colleagues for this important motion. This debate is about whether we have safe and adequate staffing levels in our hospitals and health services, and whether the pay and numbers strategy is an embargo by another name to prevent the recruitment necessary to reach the safe and adequate staffing levels required to ensure patient safety and provide treatment...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his visit to the United States and his meeting with President Biden. [41379/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the hardship caused to staff on career break in her Department by the practice of extending career breaks beyond five and six years, while there are appropriate vacancies unfilled; if she considers that it is fair to the staff to impose considerable hardship on them unnecessarily; if she realises that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: War bonds.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At what point does the Taoiseach think Israel's crimes against the Palestinians reach the threshold of horror and unacceptability that mean it deserves the same sort of sanctions as apartheid South Africa? I ask that because the crimes it has committed are way in excess of even that horrific regime. Long before the genocide of last year, many South African representatives, going right back...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [36721/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [41381/24]