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Written Answers — Department of Health: Personal Injury Claims (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a person (details supplied) can pursue compensation and justice from his Department in relation to complications regarding an operation post-childbirth in 1967; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10801/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (5 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 494. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the preschool options available to a family with a child that will be two years and seven months in September 2019, missing the ECCE first year by one month and that cannot afford to pay privately for the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10409/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Property Tax Review (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a progress report on the plans to review the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9763/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Property Tax Review (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, People Before Profit opposes property tax, full stop. We believe the Minister would raise more money and it would be fairer to introduce a wealth tax and would help to get a budget surplus. However, given that property tax exists, he had promised a review at the beginning of last year and said people were deserving of certainty as to the future plans for property tax....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Property Tax Review (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to make a few points. First, I believe the Minister owes it to transparent and accountable Government to tell people what will happen with property tax before the local elections. It would be a bit of a scam to wait until after the local elections and then see massive hikes based on the November revaluation date, which is promised. Second, I would point out to the Minister that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Estimates Process (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Estimates Process (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They would involve a big surplus.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Estimates Process (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely I would.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Estimates Process (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Estimates Process (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we have done so.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Estimates Process (28 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will send it to the Minister

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By recognising Guaidó, who is a far right wing opponent of the government, the Venezuelan Government has essentially given the green light to civil war and to external intervention. It would not have been a problem if the Tánaiste had talked to the government there and various parties and considered assistance to Venezuela on the humanitarian front, but Europe has given legitimacy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the truth. That is what the Government has done.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The double standards and hypocrisy of the Government and the EU on this are stunning. Saudi Arabia brings Yemen to the brink of famine, kills Jamal Khashoggi and tortures and abuses civil rights activists, yet they do not even ask to visit its prisons. From the moment the Chavez regime came to power in Venezuela, America and the wealthy in Venezuela were trying to sabotage it, despite its...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Humanitarian Access (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly is.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the rationale for declaring Ireland in support of Mr. Juan Guaidó as the interim President of Venezuela; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9740/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights Cases (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I brought two Saudi citizens who are human rights activists to Leinster House. This woman and this man cannot go back to Saudi Arabia as they would be tortured and imprisoned if they did. That is what is happening over there. Expressing words of concern and making recommendations is meaningless. It is laughable. Saudi Arabia is on the UN Human Rights Council at the same time that it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights Cases (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, the Tánaiste's methods are not working.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights Cases (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Bin Salman says he will implement reforms for women and then simply locks up a lot of women. He tortures and abuses them and cracks down on human rights. Germany is not afraid to take unilateral action so why are we? Even Britain, which has a huge trade with Saudi Arabia, has politicians who are putting it up to the Saudi Government. We are not. Expressing concern is not enough. I ask...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights Cases (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a request, not a threat.