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Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach again today took an opportunity to raise the spectre of populism and particularly had a go at what he described as "the far left populists" in this country. This common theme is repeated and has become a theme throughout Europe. This term is being used as a way of failing to understand the very serious political dangers and threats arising in Europe. It was not an amorphous...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was fascist right-wing-----

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. Extreme nationalists.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Leas Cheann-Chomhairle.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This failure to distinguish extreme right-wing politics with racism at its heart and what it did to Europe in the 1930s and to throw that accusation at others comes at a time when our own Government is in a political alliance with the most dangerous manifestation of crypto-fascist extreme right racist, Islamophobic politics in the entirety of Europe, in the form of Viktor Orbán, a person...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The populists are for public consultation.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree, but when people make decisions the Taoiseach does not like, he calls it populism.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with Prime Minister May. [13971/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously we hope that a deal might be done to resolve this matter, but we do not know if it will be done. Did the Taoiseach have any discussions with Theresa May about her view of what Britain intends to do in the event of no deal? The Taoiseach has said he is not making preparations. I welcome that because he should not. I am not so sure about the EU's intentions in that regard if there...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even Jacob Rees-Mogg and his gang are willing to jettison the North for their own parochial purposes.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He was at the summit.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public consultations under way or planned by him in 2019. [14252/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Public Consultation Process (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest that the Taoiseach holds a public consultation on the role of local government. There was a very good presentation today by a number of trade unions organising members in local authorities. It pointed out that we are at the absolute bottom of the European league table in terms of services provided by local authorities, the level of funding local government gets, and the extent to...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU-League of Arab States summit in Egypt and meetings he attended there. [10517/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): EU Summits (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This time last year, just prior to Land Day, I warned the Taoiseach that the Israelis were preparing to attack the Great March of Return protests planned in Gaza. I do not think he even responded when I raised the issue. In advance of the protests I said it was likely that hundreds of Palestinians would be killed and that turned out to be the case. It is estimated that more than 200...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the programme for Government, it is stated that the Government should be tested on its ability to deal with the housing crisis and provide social and affordable housing. On Friday, the Minister produced a regulation on affordable housing stating that somebody on €45,000 a year should be paying no more than 35% of their income, which would be €998 per month. On the front of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Rent of €1,300 is not affordable. That is €15,000 a year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They used to, they just stopped.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does it for other unions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is nonsense.