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Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not putting up with this. These people want to wreck democracy. They want to silence these voices in one go. We are not putting up with it. I am sorry, but they want to disrupt democracy but we are not going to let them.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You want to be in government and in opposition.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You want to have your cake and eat it.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Silence is complicity in this.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not sit down, with all due respect to you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government wants to sabotage democracy.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am letting rip.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is unparliamentary.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I raise a point of order?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Business Committee sets the schedule. This all-party committee has put a proposal to us. When this proposal for a debate was raised at the committee's meeting, there was not a word of dissent from the Government.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a sabotage of the Business Committee, which is supposed to organise the business of this House on the basis of co-operation between parties. It is an abuse of the Government's majority. Sickeningly, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party are lining up to drive a coach and horses through the process of democratic reform. The Business Committee and the Committee on Standing...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a move to gag the Opposition in the most shameful way, as if the Government had not done enough sabotage over the last week. It sabotaged the self-employed, the taxi drivers-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has attacked-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished making my point of order. This is absolutely shameful behaviour on the part of the Government. I absolutely cannot believe that the Green Party is a party to this. They sabotaged democracy. This is-----

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak to our amendments, Nos. 10 and 33. The argument we are making in both amendments, very simply, is that we are still in a public health emergency. The ban was brought in to protect people against being evicted and made homeless in the context of an emergency that threatens people's health. Unless something has changed that we have missed, we are still in that public health...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are supposed to call in order, a Cheann Comhairle.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are you not taking us in the order of the amendments?

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the way it is normally done, a Cheann Comhairle. I do not know why you are departing from the normal procedure. I could not understand that.