Results 101-120 of 26,780 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in its plans to ramp up military expenditure in Europe?
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not an answer.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, there are 20 minutes for questions and answers. If other people have questions, that is fine, but there is no strict time limit on this.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine, that is okay, but there is nobody else signalling and there are 12 minutes on the clock.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There was no need for the Acting Chair to try to -----
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, grand. No problem. I am quite happy to give way to Deputy Lahart for a second question but I will take my second question. I asked the Minister of State a question about Jeffrey Goldberg and The Atlantic and the reference, to use the words in the chat, to adding to the “horribles on why the Europeans must invest in their defense" in the context of attacks on Yemen. I just...
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I just want to elaborate in order that people understand. They are saying that they are prompting the European Union to spend more on defence, which Ursula von der Leyen and this Council are promising to do, with the current EU expenditure on weapons, at €356 billion, more than doubling to €800 billion, in their interests. The same regime is threatening tariffs against...
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister of State accept that any country in Europe that is providing weapons to Israel is guilty of complicity with genocide?
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When I spoke earlier, I asked the Minister of State whether this Government will stop facilitating the sale of Israeli war bonds through the Irish Central Bank. It is an absolute outrage that that is allowed. Maybe the Minister of State’s official can fill him in there. I am quite happy if the Minister of State wants to confer with them.
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. The Government raised its concern for the Middle East. In his speech, the Taoiseach said that he condemns the attacks that Israel has resumed against the people of Gaza and the ongoing attacks on the West Bank. The Government does not call it genocide. Its European partners refuse even to mention the name "Israel" when these horrific attacks are taking place, but the Taoiseach says...
- Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In his regular statements, the Taoiseach is very happy to say - as am I - that Putin is a warmonger, tyrant and imperialist. The problem is, however, the people the Government wants us to ally with in the United States and Europe, are also brutal warmongers, imperialists and militarists. Trump is giving billions to Israel to commit a genocide in Gaza and is actively promoting the ethnic...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Probably going to close down that as well, are you?
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not for Taoiseach's questions.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You have not responded to our letter.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They did not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is all out now. Giving the game away now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The crash was a good imitation of stability.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You did that by pulling a stroke.