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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because they put profit before health.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (16 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [39828/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (16 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic division of his Department. [41814/18]

Resignation of Minister: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I came into the House with an open mind. I do not have evidence to question the integrity of former Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, but what the Taoiseach has revealed about private meetings between the former Minister and Mr. McCourt means there was no doubt but that he had to resign. It is somewhat shocking that it has taken until now to reveal that these meetings took place. Despite...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (11 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Statements (11 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The resignation of the Minister, Deputy Naughten, is the crescendo of a totally failed and shambolic process of privatisation of a key infrastructural project for the State. He made reference during his resignation speech to the fact the Taoiseach did not have confidence in him. If that is the case, the Taoiseach needs to come in immediately to give us his side of the story. Why did he not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In recent months, the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection has advertised that employees who feel they may be victims of bogus self-employment practices should report that, which is welcome. It has been a long time coming because such practices are widespread, particularly in the construction industry. Does the Government have any intention, in the forthcoming Industrial...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, I take this opportunity to offer my condolences and sympathies to the family of Emma Mhic Mhathúna on the day of her funeral. I was unable to attend the service this morning as I had to attend a centenary celebration for the victims of the RMS Leinsterin Dún Laoghaire. All of us across the country owe her a debt of gratitude for her courage and bravery in speaking out about...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Lahart. The problem is that the respect of the Government only extends to what it considers to be the political establishment. It does not extend to forces outside of this establishment even though on many of critical issues that are facing this country right now those who are not part of the establishment have played a key role in trying to mobilise forces to offer...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed, possibly the longest in the history of the world. We have emergency legislation in an economy that is recording record growth rates, where the Government is boasting about the level of economic growth and where corporate profits have doubled since the Government came into power from €77 billion to €144 billion. Some people in the economy are doing well but still it...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and not to the monocultural industrial model, which is damaging the environment. The extra money is welcome but a radical change in policy is needed. A key area where the Government could do something to address emissions is public transport but there is nothing radical or changing in the budget. Even with the small bit of additional funding, there will be significantly fewer...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with an absolutely shameful housing and homelessness emergency, a crumbling health service which is inflicting such hardship and suffering on so many of those who use it, a climate emergency that is galloping towards us, a further education system that is in dire need of investment as our universities tumble in the world rankings, and in a society that is marked by some of the greatest...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Ministerial Meetings (9 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 433. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the meetings he held with representatives of the remaining consortium for the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take to ensure that the recommendations of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar are implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40115/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Vocational Training Opportunities Scheme (4 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that when a social welfare recipient is transitioning from jobseeker's to a VTOS scheme, he or she is required to pay a back week and therefore does not get paid for the first week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40385/18]

Taxation Agreement: Motion (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our reputation went a good while ago.

Taxation Agreement: Motion (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue of global multinational corporations avoiding tax by shifting profits from where they are actually generated to other jurisdictions where they can through complex means avoid paying tax is arguably the major contributory factor to staggering levels of inequality globally that are galloping away in their obscenity. 9 o’clock Year after year, the gap between the wealth of a...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State, Deputy English, accused some of us on this side of the House of not liking facts. We very much like facts, but the facts regarding what the Government is delivering in affordable and public housing are pretty grim. In the first six months of this year, the Government delivered 203 council houses in the four Dublin county councils, 16 of which are in Dublin city. That...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to, please, stop trying to deceive the public. The Government must build public housing on public land and stop relying on vulture funds, speculators and corporate landlords which are making an obscene fortune from the misery of others. It is clear the Government will not do that, which is the reason for the protests and people power of the sort exemplified by the Take...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It could double the number of houses provided.