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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Review (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 49. To ask the Minister for Finance if a review of the local property tax and its impact on increasing wealth inequality here will be produced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21488/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (16 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 429 of 1 May 2018, the number of the 3,423 families in receipt of WFP in the public sector in each area, section or department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21587/18]

Palestine: Statements (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The slaughter of unarmed Palestinian protesters carried out by Israel yesterday and its response in the past six weeks to the Great March of Return was cold blooded, deliberate, calculated murder. It was not an over-reaction or a somehow justifiable defence of a border but premeditated murder. How do I know that? Two days before the protests started six weeks ago I told the Tánaiste...

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In light of all the atrocities Israel has carried out, if we simply hand-wring, express regret and concern then the atrocities will continue. It is effective complicity, especially when we also give Israel favoured trade status. Israel does not give a damn about words, and the Tánaiste knows that. The Tánaiste said he talked to Benjamin Netanyahu three times and that he will talk...

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is pressing his EU counterparts for further actions in support of Palestinian rights in the context of the upcoming 70th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the ongoing Palestinian protest on the right to return as allowed for by UN resolution and the ongoing aggression by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The murder of 58 unarmed Palestinian protesters yesterday by Israel was cold-blooded premeditated murder. It was not an overreaction or an ad hocresponse. It was premeditated. In the face of premeditated executions by Israel, does the Minister not think it is incumbent on this country and the European Union to impose sanctions which would actually impact on Israel to stop this slaughter?

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Beyond the politics, people in Gaza have contacted me and asked that we would immediately provide medical and blood supplies. They have actually run out of blood in the hospitals in Gaza because they are overwhelmed with injured people and those who have been shot. That is a practical matter.

Other Questions: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People have been phoning me from Gaza, telling me the hospitals are overwhelmed. The Minister should use our contacts there to see if there is anything we can do to get blood and medical supplies there. Beyond that, how many atrocities does Israel have to commit before the European Union stops giving it favoured trade status, for example? Why is that allowed? There are supposed to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What scale of atrocity does Israel have to commit to trigger EU sanctions against it? I ask this in all seriousness. Israel has favoured trade status from the European Union with the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Effectively, we treat it as an associate member of the European Union, yet it massacred 58 people yesterday. It killed another 45 or 46 over the past six weeks. Six weeks...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume the social policy sub-committee discusses disability issues and the implications of ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. How does that fit with planned changes in special needs assessments which speech and language therapists and the Psychological Society of Ireland believe will significantly undermine the supports available to families...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is just looking for help.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has been blacklisted because he blew the whistle.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21100/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the committee discussed the issue of whistleblowers and providing the support to whistleblowers that the Government often claims it is committed to? I raised with the Taoiseach a couple of weeks ago the case of Mr. Stephen Walsh who blew the whistle on fraudulent behaviour, and indeed bribery, in the health service which revealed that a surgical equipment company had been essentially...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee G, justice and equality, last met. [21099/18]

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government will not engage with Hamas.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the impact of President Trump's foreign policies in the Middle East, particularly in relation to the Iran nuclear deal and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; if he has discussed his views with his EU counterparts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21102/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (15 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated capital cost of introducing 9,000 new hospital beds over five years; the estimated cost of staffing 9,000 beds annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20822/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Applications (10 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether it is now time to examine the possibility of requiring Israeli citizens who reside in illegal settlements to undergo the same visa application process as that which Palestinians are subject to in order to enter here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20762/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (10 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on whether it is now time to examine the possibility of requiring Israeli citizens who reside in illegal settlements to undergo the same visa application process as that which Palestinians are subject to in order to enter here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20763/18]