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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Silence is golden.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: VAT Rate Increases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The increase on VAT on food supplements to 23% is shocking for huge numbers of people who need and rely on food supplements and vitamins. To put it simply, the Government needs to abandon this misguided plan. I will give the Minister of State a very simple example. Tony is a cancer patient and a constituent of mine. He is a pensioner with a medical card. He spends all of his small income...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have them soon? Does the Taoiseach have a date?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have already asked a question about income thresholds and I will add this further comment. The Taoiseach has gone on and on about a social mix in housing but the failure to raise the income thresholds for social housing makes a nonsense of social mix because nurses, council workers and people who are on low-to-average earnings are being whacked off the social housing list. That completely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach address my question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked a specific question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met. [2758/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that deals with climate change. [4067/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Briefly on that, the Taoiseach should start to prepare the ground for a border poll in the event of a hard Brexit and any effort by anybody to erect a border. It is a basic democratic call at this stage to let people make their decision if that eventuality occurs. My question is more generally about the Taoiseach's legislative priorities. I urge him to make a priority of legislating to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his legislative priorities for 2019. [2757/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It appears that anything recommended by a doctor is affected.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a hell of a lot more vacancies than there are applications.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government appealed the decision. It is fighting it in a court.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's researchers worked hard to find that one.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Migration Crisis (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on discussions he has had with his European counterparts with regard to the recent reports of 170 migrants missing in the Mediterranean Sea; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3967/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he plans to take with regard to the ongoing and worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4138/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed with his European counterparts the worsening humanitarian situation in Palestine since the United States of America implemented cuts to infrastructure projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3968/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has raised the issue of the reports of ill-treatment of eight female activists detained in a prison in Saudi Arabia with his counterparts across Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4137/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will establish a cross-party group to visit the detainees in a prison in Saudi Arabia in view of reports of ill-treatment and torture of eight female activists detained at the location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4136/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Before Deputy Durkan starts, I came in earlier and indicated that I had to go over and return, so I do not understand why I was not included in the first round of questions.