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National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am fairly stunned by the Minister's response.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe I am missing something here. Does the Minister recognise that the public are appalled at the level of overruns with the children's hospital, the amount of money involved, the scale of the project, the extent of the overruns and the damning criticism by PwC of the entire process? Against that background, does the Minister not understand why they would be even a little concerned that...

National Children's Hospital: Statements (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I pressed for this debate at the Business Committee because the massive overruns relating to the national children's hospital, involving hundreds of millions of euro of public money, and the resignation of the chief procurement officer from the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board are examples of the substantial and important issues which have been overshadowed by the Dáil...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's policy is always to make the little person pay.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever it is, be it water charges, property charges, parking charges or carbon taxes, the small person always pays-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the Government never asks the polluting corporations to pay. They get away scot-free. When they lobby the Government, it states it will block Deputy Bríd Smith's Bill to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government states it will install a terminal that will lock us into the use of toxic fracked gas for decades to come at a time when, by the way, the British energy regulator has told the Government that it can use British gas up until 2035, by which time we should have reduced our use of that fossil fuel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where are the grants to make it possible for somebody who needs to have his or her home insulated, who is living in a damp and cold home but does not have the money to insulate it? The Government wants to tax such a person because he or she does not have enough money to do the work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government always blames the small person and never takes on the corporations. One hundred corporations are responsible for 70% of global emissions. Where are the taxes on them? Where are the penalties to make them change their behaviour? The carbon tax which has failed to reduce emissions to date is the only measure about which the Government talks. On everything else such as public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is still unaffordable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are the figures from the EPA on our CO2 emissions not yet another damning indictment of the failure of this Government to take the issue of climate change seriously? Some 5 million tonnes of CO2 have been emitted above the required targets and this is the third year in a row that we have missed them. From the point of view of the public, crucially, we are now facing fines amounting to...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The deaths of 39 people in the back of a container truck is an horrific and unspeakable tragedy and it should bring shame on us if this country played any part in those deaths. Those people very likely passed through this country. Does the Minister of State accept that the European Union's fortress immigration policies bear some responsibility for that tragedy and for the deaths of probably...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a good point.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The one redeeming feature of the deal is that for now, temporarily, it prevents the worst of all possible outcomes, namely a no-deal Brexit and a hard North-South Border. We all genuinely agree that would be a disaster. That is a redeeming feature of the deal but it is only a temporary guarantee of that because of the consent mechanism. As Deputy Paul Murphy rightly noted, and as...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council. [42160/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the UK Prime Minister in the week of 7 October 2019. [42161/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we not have a brief response?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I stuck to the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past decade or so, approximately 3 million US troops have passed through Shannon Airport to prosecute disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have had rendition flights illegally kidnapping people for torture using our airports, and we have had the US military transporting support to Saudi Arabia to carry out its horrific attacks in Yemen. The US war machine visits destruction...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not always have a choice.