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National Marine Planning Framework: Motion (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Bríd Smith. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and I objected at the Business Committee to the original plan of the Government to attempt to push through this motion on the marine planning framework without debate. I am glad we did so. It is clear the Government wants to ram this through in order to silence legitimate concerns and questions by people concerned with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Among the industries and groups of workers in this country are the approximately 25,000 taxi drivers who have been crucified by the impact of Covid-19 public health restrictions. That will continue for as long as other sectors on which they depend for their income, such as music, entertainment, events, tourism and aviation, are affected. However, their appeals for specific assistance to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Taxi drivers have a number of simple demands, none of which have been met. They have asked for a financial package of supports to cover their fixed costs, which were estimated by the NTA a number of years ago at €11,000 a year. Those are debts they have been accumulating and they have been excluded from the schemes to support those fixed costs. They have asked for a moratorium on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest discussion with the President of the United States of America. [17203/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss with President Biden the issue of the TRIPS waiver for vaccine technology and vaccine formulae? Even the United States Government, as I have pointed out to the Taoiseach previously, has used wartime legislation to direct private companies to do certain things to respond to the coronavirus. This is in the heart of capitalism, if we like. It does not go far enough...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think I am next on the paper.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is noted on the actual book here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Citizens' assemblies have obviously done very good work in a number of areas. Many of the issues identified in the programme for Government as being ones on which we should have citizens' assemblies deliberate are extremely positive. If one were to ask people right now what they believe we should have a citizens’ assembly deliberate upon as a matter of urgency, I believe a very large...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the expected running order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [17202/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [15561/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with foreign affairs will next meet. [20476/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In five days, Abdulrahman al-Sahdan, who is a Red Crescent humanitarian worker from Saudi Arabia, will be sentenced by the Saudi regime to 20 years imprisonment for a tweet. Him and about 70 other democracy activists are facing sentences of between ten and 30 years each. They are persecuted by the Saudi regime, which, let us remember, carved Jamal Khashoggi into pieces in the Saudi embassy...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of these companies are riding roughshod over these people.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. I held back on speaking to Thursday's business until now. The Ceann Comhairle knows I raised this matter at the Business Committee last Thursday. The idea we will pass a motion on the national marine planning framework on the basis of a 50-minute debate is utterly unacceptable. For the Taoiseach to suggest that we are somehow trying to paralyse the process is utter...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the last couple of hours, I have been informed by the four national representative taxi groups that the Garda has banned their planned protest, which was due to take place outside Leinster House tomorrow, on Merrion Street. This is a shocking development. There would be no threat to public health because the taxi drivers were going to be in their cars. That was clearly outlined to the...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Barry. I thank Deputies Ó Broin and Conway-Walsh for using Private Members' time to bring forward this Bill. Most importantly, I commend and congratulate the USI on what already appears to be a successful campaign of people power. That should be said. As a result of its campaigning on this issue, it appears that it has forced the...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope he is going to stay for my contribution.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to respond to the appeals by musicians, events, entertainment and culture workers for a reopening roadmap for the sector; if supports will be provided in the meantime for many in the sector who due to the fact they do not have a public facing premises have been unable to avail of existing Covid-19 support schemes to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the allegations of blacklisting will be investigated against film workers who are members of a union (details supplied) who gave evidence of blacklisting practices to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in January 2018 and many of whom have been unable to secure employment on film productions...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 514. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has read a recent report (details supplied); his views on the report; his further views on whether it is now time to begin speaking in relation to Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people in terms of apartheid rather than merely occupation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21840/21]