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European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not, a Cheann Comhairle. It is my maiden speech in the Thirty-third Dáil, but actually it is not that either.

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The EU's shame is on display in the Greek islands at the moment. Its pretence to be some bastion of progressivity is exposed with the harrowing and terrible scenes of thousands of desperate men, women and children fleeing the most horrendous circumstances of war, oppression, displacement and conflict and then being penned up in this way, subject to violence and living in the most appalling...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with the decision for the reasons outlined. Public health officials need to concentrate on addressing the crisis rather than spending unnecessary time at committee meetings. As I said at the Business Committee today, I welcome the Taoiseach's comments about briefings. There also needs to be provision, however, for parties, groups and whatever to put forward proposals in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (5 Mar 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 417. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a transgender drop-down option in the Garda PULSE system in order to record hate crimes against transgender persons; and if not, if the situation will be rectified. [3670/20]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I wish to say that we will support Deputy McDonald's nomination for Taoiseach. During the campaign, People Before Profit had stamped on every one of our leaflets and posters the slogan "Break the cycle of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael" and 100 years of two-party rule. In record numbers, voters responded to and echoed that call. We have an historic shift...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to make an effort to establish a left minority Government to give effect to the demand for change and the demand to break the cycle of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael rule.

Ainmniú Iarrthóirí agus Ceann Comhairle a Thoghadh - Selection of Candidate and Election of Ceann Comhairle (20 Feb 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I offer congratulations to the Ceann Comhairle on his re-election and I offer commiserations to Deputy Naughten. While he failed to be elected he made some very good suggestions, which we should consider seriously. Many of us share his frustration with parliamentary questions, for example, those on health, which are batted from the Department to the HSE and take a long time to come back....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The private insurance industry are rip-off merchants. That is what we have learned from the Central Bank. Some of us have been saying that for quite a long time, by the way. The Government said it was all fraudulent claims, particular risks, etc. They are rip-off merchants. We cannot allow the fate of childcare to be dictated by rip-off merchants. We need a not-for-profit insurance...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is from the calculator on the Minister's website. It is €20 a week against those costs.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Childcare Services (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The comments of the Minister of State, Deputy Michael D'Arcy, this morning that there is nothing the Government can do to intervene in regard to increasing insurance costs struck fear into many people. Basically, what the Minister of State said is that the cost will either result in the closure of crèches or in the cost being passed on to parents. I have been contacted by many...

Post-European Council: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To use a seasonal metaphor, turkeys do not vote for Christmas. We absolutely must address the climate emergency. There appears to be no recognition by the European Union that if addressing it seems like punishment for large sections of the population, they will just not buy into it and, worse still, they will react against it. I mentioned that the far right is worryingly on the rise across...

Post-European Council: Statements (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At one level, Ursula von der Leyen's commitment to a new green deal and addressing climate change is positive because the climate emergency is a terrifying reality that is hurtling at humanity at a ferocious pace and threatening our existence and that of future generations. Insofar as the popular movement, in particular of young people and environmentalists, has forced this issue, through...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that discusses environmental matters. [51529/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely freezing outside, and I think most people have felt that cold. We should bear this in mind over the next number of weeks because we have hundreds of thousands of people in this country affected by fuel poverty. For elderly people, in some cases, it is life threatening. There are hundreds of thousands of people in receipt of the fuel allowance. These are, in the main,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: An issue in respect of which I - no more than anybody else - have tabled hundreds of parliamentary questions since I entered the Dáil in 2011, is forestry. Those questions date right back to the misguided plan to sell off the harvesting rights of Coillte. In the interim, there has been, at a rhetorical level, an improvement in terms of the Government's official policy on forestry,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that discusses agricultural matters; and when it will next meet. [51861/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Meetings (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to meet the new Prime Minister of the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53384/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (18 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed with his counterparts in Europe the ongoing uprising in Bolivia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53383/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach mentioned, there was talk in Europe of radical action on climate. However, the signs are that it is just talk. The green new deal is good on aspiration but very short on detail. In any event it was not possible to get everybody to sign up to it because Poland has opted out. When I say it is good on aspiration, carbon neutrality by 2050 is not a bad aspiration, but if we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (17 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for official visits abroad over the next six months. [51528/19]