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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (18 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 388. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a commitment will be given to the systematic testing of the waters of Dublin Bay at a minimum of ten locations throughout 356 days of the year (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26063/21]

Education (Leaving Certificate 2021) (Accredited Grades) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we are discussing education, it would be appropriate to begin my remarks by paying tribute to Seamus Deane, one of Ireland's great academics and intellectuals, who has just passed away. I was privileged enough when I was studying English literature in UCD, having entered there in 1987, that Seamus Deane was already an intellectual legend teaching in UCD. I remember reading his wonderful...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste mentioned the Israeli ambassador. I was at the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence this morning and the ambassador came in with a brazen and really outrageous defence of the ethnic cleansing that Israel is engaging in against the people of Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem and the murder of innocent children in Gaza, where 17 children have been killed so far and more...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school (details supplied) can stay on its current site now that the lease has been renewed for one more year while the permanent site is being developed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with the parent group of a school (details supplied) with regard to a permanent site for their school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the advice for a person who has been refused a contributory pension due to the fact their contributions for working prior to becoming a homemaker cannot be located by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be phased out in 2021; if so, the way this will be done; the timescale for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25409/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am addressing the ambassador and the supporters of the Israeli project, state or whatever it is. I am one of the people who think that state is a colonialist enterprise and that it is an apartheid state. From its very beginning, it achieved its aims through the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people, something well documented by Professor Illan Pappé in his book, The Ethnic Cleansing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel or Palestine is a place that deserves peace but the ambassador's state has shown no interest in actual peace and reconciliation with the Palestinian people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a brief point of order, and it is a genuine one-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be noted that the camera went off for my entire contribution. That was very odd because my camera was on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not on the television feed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that but it is not the point I am making.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My camera went off during my contribution for some bizarre reason.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is interesting, though.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach might look into the ultraviolet plant as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [24248/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The National Economic and Social Council has regularly referred to the issue of water quality and the need to address the very poor levels of water quality as a result of the discharge in multiple locations across this country of untreated sewage. In my area of Dún Laoghaire alone, untreated sewage goes into Dublin Bay at 11 points. I see the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree that we clearly have to find a cost-effective and more efficient way to deal with these important matters of public interest. While we absolutely have to do that, it should not deter us from facilitating necessary investigations into injustices or serious matters of public concern. In the context of the current housing crisis and the debates about that situation, we need to look at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am simply saying that there are many issues that require proper investigation. The model we need to look at is one of independent public inquiries, rather than these commissions of investigation, which end up as a festival of moneymaking for legal people.