Results 741-760 of 26,831 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Quality, not quantity.
- Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which I am happy to support. I will not get into the discussion about whether it goes too far or far enough other than to say I bow to the knowledge of people in the region, whether they are campaigners or political representatives, who I am sure know a hell of a lot more than me about the details of what is happening to the health...
- Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Good. Fair play to you, Minister. I support the motion. The case of Aoife Johnston, her tragic and unavoidable death, should be a wake-up call for everybody. Something like that should not have happened. It is absolutely tragic and no doubt linked to massive overcrowding and the fact that she was left on a trolley for 13 hours without the medication she needed to save her life. Her...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to ask about staffing in the health service. In July, the Government announced a lifting of the recruitment embargo in the HSE. However, over the past few weeks I have started to receive desperate calls from staff in multiple departments in my local hospital about a recruitment embargo being imposed in St. Michael's Hospital that is endangering patient safety and means workers...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Even if they are understaffed and unsafe.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Taoiseach who is putting the target on their backs.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has done it. I did not make the statement; he did.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the Taoiseach.
- 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...