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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will respond briefly to the point made by Deputy McDonald. I am glad she accepts that these are obnoxious so-called reforms. They are vile intrusions and cuts on particularly vulnerable people. To my mind they have to be resisted full stop. Mitigation is not enough. This is appalling. These are private companies - those involved not even medical practitioners - telling people whether...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that, as Deputy Burton said, it has not happened here yet, but we must not allow it to happen. Sinn Féin should not have passed that Bill. This is the point about whether Stormont is in place. We have to resist these measures regardless of who is in government and regardless of the Administration that is in place because these measures are vile and obnoxious. This is not...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the more frustrating aspects of the endless finger-pointing that has been a feature of the Brexit debate is that issues which have a real day-to-day impact on people in the North, particularly those who are vulnerable and less well off, are being completely forgotten. The UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 was one of the most obnoxious pieces of legislation to come from Westminster. It was...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was talking about the North.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of all of the promised legislation before this House, the abortion legislation has the most unequivocal democratic mandate from the people of this country. It is also has a very definite timeline to make abortion facilities available to women in this country. A minority of people, however, seem to wish to frustrate the democratic wishes of the people in this country, regardless of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Regardless of that question, given the obvious attempts by some to frustrate the democratic wishes of the people of this country, at this stage we need to send a clear signal. I refer to sitting on Friday, if necessary, and sitting until this legislation finishes this week. This legislation could also be amended in the Seanad, so the Dáil, if necessary should sit on extra days before...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not asking for a guillotine. I am asking for a Friday sitting.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Friday sitting?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not said a word about abortion for two days.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Health if a centre (details supplied) will remain open with all the services and staff available to the blind community of CHO area 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50804/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is reasonable that the blind community of CHO 6 would have to travel from County Wicklow to Tallaght for services that have always been available in Dún Laoghaire in view of reports of the possible transfer of a centre (details supplied) to Tallaght; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50805/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Funding (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 223. To ask the Minister for Health if the urgent need for 24 hour care for a person (details supplied) will be recognised; if funding for same will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51091/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in preparing for Brexit. [50807/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (4 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is massive uncertainty about what will happen in Britain in the coming weeks. The hope that certain issues could be avoided on the basis of an agreement that resolves things to everyone's mutual satisfaction is looking a hell of a lot more shaky. That brings the possibility of a hard Brexit into view. What scenarios are being envisaged in the contingency planning mentioned by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War in Paris. [50806/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the armistice event on 11 November, President Emmanuel Macron warned against the dangers of nationalism rising in Europe. In particular, he referred to the dangers of the far right. We need to be very conscious of the dangers posed by the far right and the sort of political forces that gave us the horrors of the first part of the 20th century. When he looks at the uprising and protests...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the same matter, I was there last night when the teachers occupied the building for a brief period. They did so out of desperation because they do not know what to do. They have not been paid their wages, which is money owed to them, and the owner has disappeared into the night, leaving them completely high and dry. I was talking to one teacher, whom I know quite well, and this is the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to these highly qualified people. Will the Government fast-track using the Social Insurance Fund, consider a teacher protection fund-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and smooth the way to resolving any social welfare difficulties the teachers may have coming into Christmas?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today's business shall be No. a18, motion re opt-in under protocol of a measure in the area of asylum, migration and integration funds, referral to committee; No. 18, excess Vote in relation to 2016 - Vote 35; No. 18a, motion re parliamentary question rota swap; No. 38, statements on the report on the procurement process audit of the national broadband plan; No. 19, instruction to committee...