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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government intervene to protect public service broadcasting? Will it ensure there are decent jobs for workers and that they are not the victims of this process? Will public service broadcasting be properly funded by taxing the obscene profits of social media companies?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: However, there will be crap conditions for workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was grimly amused by the Tánaiste's accusing others of ideological obsessions in response to an earlier question. Surely the ideological obsession that is most evident is that of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to privatise everything that moves, whether it is selling public land to private developers for housing or the issue I want to raise, public service broadcasting. It has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just "Fair City".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So the Government washes its hands of the matter. The Government is responsible for not reining in the obscene salaries, which everybody knew about, at the top of RTÉ, whether it was executives or a tiny number of overpaid presenters. Now, however, the people getting it in the neck are the skilled people - the ordinary workers. They are the ones who will lose their jobs and they will...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to speak on behalf of People Before Profit. Local authorities are chronically under-resourced and underfunded and are having their powers stripped away from them systematically and on an ongoing basis through underfunding, outsourcing and backdoor privatisation to the point where they are becoming increasingly irrelevant when it comes to doing...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on discussions with his counterparts in Europe with regard to imposing sanctions on Israel because of its war crimes in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27578/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had, or plans to have, any discussions with the US president or his counterparts in the US with regard to their financing and arming of Israel while it continues its assault on Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27577/24]

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The Taoiseach said the nominations of Deputies McGrath and Chambers to their new posts were about policies and not personalities. I agree, so I will focus on policy and not personality. First, it is extremely worrying that the discourse around Deputy McGrath's nomination to the European Commission is focused on the horse-trading going on in terms of...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Turning to the question of the finance portfolio, we will be voting, for policy and not for personal reasons, against the nomination of Deputy Chambers because we have had more than 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Ministers for Finance. We think they have had their chance and have not delivered, not even when this country has more revenue and is wealthier than it has ever been....

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A number of years ago, we passed a referendum to put children first, but when one listens to the testimonies of the school principals who were in Leinster House last week or of the parents, teachers and SNAs who attended our recent meetings on special education, what they describe is a dire crisis in our schools and the Government's complete failure to adequately resource, staff and fund...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (26 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 28 May 2024, the basis on which Ireland does not impose restrictive measures unilaterally; if this is a matter of Government policy or whether he is bound by law not to exercise the powers contained in Article 42 of the Criminal Activity (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (26 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 28 May 2024, if he or his predecessors have ever exercised the powers contained in article 42 of the Criminal Activity (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005; if Ireland has previously imposed restrictive measures on those carrying out terrorist, terrorist-linked, or terrorist-financing activity in a domestic context by...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Dublin-Monaghan Bombings (26 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason An Garda Síochána has failed to fully cooperate with operation Newham in terms of failing to provide a single document in relation to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings; the reason An Garda Síochána has failed to provide intelligence information in relation to this case to operation Newham; and if she...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is currently departing the Chamber-----

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and I am sorry that I did not get a chance to challenge his countermotion directly with him. I must first thank Sinn Féin for tabling this important motion on energy costs. We are happy to support the measures in it, such as beefing up the CRU to try to address the high cost of energy in this country. However, we would go further, and we think we need caps. We tabled a Bill at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the Palestinian state's representative to Ireland. [26277/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is and was a welcome step, belatedly, to recognise the Palestinian state. If it is not going to be more than hollow symbolism something has to follow that assists the Palestinian people in liberating themselves from a regime that is capable of committing what the International Court of Justice believes is a plausible genocide and which most reasonable people think is a genocide. Any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The rest are kids and the parents are dependent on social welfare. They are all homeless now. After 15 years on the list they are over the threshold for social housing. Nothing is available for them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of their daughters is working in our hospitals looking after our sick. They are all homeless and not eligible for social housing or HAP. It is crazy.