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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the treatment abroad?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We asked about the treatment abroad scheme.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation which reveals itself in the case of Sophia is shameful. I met her father a couple of weeks ago in Dún Laoghaire and he told me of her case. He has since told me that, in 2015, he wrote to then Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, who told him that no child would be waiting for scoliosis surgery for longer than 15 months. At that time, Sophia had to wait 16 months...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With no disrespect to the Minister of State, it is disappointing that the Minister is not present. It is even more disappointing for Sophia's father that despite repeated requests the Minister will not meet him. Consequently, we get answers which do not respond to the questions asked. Yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach when the backlog of urgent and complex will cases be addressed. The...

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Kimberley process?

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about the Kimberley process.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have never subscribed to the two-state solution when it comes to Palestine because it codifies and institutionalises the ethnic and religious partition of people, specifically Jewish people and Palestinian people, in a way that I do not think we would accept anywhere else, not least on this island. I do not accept it. Setting aside that debate, and the fact the two-state solution is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister and his officials. One narrative I often identify with the Minister and his Fine Gael predecessors is that he is prudent and pragmatic whereas some of us on the left are reckless and profligate. I put it to the Minister that the opposite is true. I would like him to answer questions in two particular areas where I think he is being reckless, profligate, and wasting and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When we ask how much tax is forgone on that relief, which has fuelled the vulture funds' grab of Irish property, we cannot get an answer. Does the Minister not consider that the public and the committee at least deserve an answer on how much tax is being forgone on section 110? While the Minister does not agree with a financial transactions tax, can he provide an answer as to how much...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because he alleges expenses for the film were inflated in order to defraud that tax relief.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the RAS and HAP figures?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not answer on section 110.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Ex-ante Scrutiny of Budget 2019: Minister for Finance (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. I want to know when we will get one.

Ceisteanna (Atógáíl) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with President Abbas. [38831/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not about the Minister or the Taoiseach. It is not personal. It is about the failure of the Government to break from a disastrously failing policy that is wreaking havoc on the lives of tens of thousands of our citizens. It is personal for those people. Our feelings and our political differences are irrelevant compared with the hardship and suffering those people are experiencing....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will raise the issue of Sophia Daly. It is a case with which the Taoiseach is familiar. She is 12 years old and has cerebral palsy, arthrogryposis and scoliosis. She was diagnosed with scoliosis in 2013 and put on an urgent waiting list for surgery in April 2017. In August, 17 months later, she was taken off that list and is now not on any list even though the Minister claims only 20...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, will next meet. [37538/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Council (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It goes without saying that we cannot trust the Tory right - the Tory Brexiteers - in terms of the consequences of, and negotiations around, the British exit for obvious reasons. We have always said that we do not necessarily trust the EU to look after Irish interests on the issue of the Border if those negotiations do not go well but the Taoiseach has always said that we will not accept any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (25 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the process involved in releasing funds and agreeing the proposal for 100% social and affordable housing on the Shanganagh Castle site in Shankill, County Dublin; the way in which the promised announcement of an affordable housing scheme relates to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38639/18]