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Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The truly appalling rise in homelessness figures, especially child homelessness figures, should lead the members of this Government to hang their heads in shame at the hardship and suffering inflicted by the Government's failed policies on the 10,000 people now suffering homelessness, particularly for the children who suffer. The numbers of children in homelessness are increasing month on...

Appointment of Members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The role of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is critical. It needs to be completely independent of Government in order that it can, where necessary, and independent of any Government pressure, make critiques of any Government failure to uphold human rights or equality principles. The State has failed very badly in many of these areas. I ask the House to think of the plight of...

Appointment of Members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in the process of selection.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the recent efforts he has made to assist a school (details supplied) in its ongoing campaign to ensure the future of its playing pitches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14273/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there should be a move towards the elimination of all third level education fees in the interest of ensuring accessibility for all to further education (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14272/18]

European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How long do we have for questions?

European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are only two questions and we have a while so we will give plenty of time to the Minister of State to reply. I want to press the Minister of State on the question of the nerve agent and the evidence on which the decision to expel a Russian diplomat was based. It was done on the word of British intelligence services, or perhaps it was that of the British Government alone, and then...

European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Barry has outlined how a state of the European Union is engaged in pretty unacceptable and brutal repression of those protesting against injustice. There is also an ally of the European Union with preferential trade arrangements, Israel, whose actions we should consider as we come to Easter weekend. Easter, of course, commemorates the persecution of the Israelites by the Roman Empire...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Correspondence (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said a substantive response is usually given to any correspondence his Department receives within an appropriate time. I have a specific question about a piece of correspondence dealing with a serious matter. It relates to a whistleblower whose story and the issue he brought to public attention featured in a "Prime Time Investigates" programme in 2015. It involved a company...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Correspondence (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach could give him a reference.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Honesty is an important prerequisite to serious debate. Deputy Martin said that those who are critical of the decision to expel are defending Russia, in response to which I noted the Taoiseach was nodding.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy did say it. As recently as last week, Deputy Gino Kenny and I condemned the behaviour of Russia on the floor of the Dáil. We asked the Government to bring in the Russian ambassador to answer questions about what Russia is doing in Syria. Lest anybody is in any doubt, Putin is an authoritarian war monger but this does not, however, mean that Russia is guilty, without...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are the Russians trying to hack? Definitely. We are all aware of the scandal that unfolded recently in regard to Facebook, an American company which gave information to Cambridge Analytica, which is being used to subvert democratic elections. The Russians and the Americans are dodgy and there are spies in the Russian embassy, the American embassy and the Israeli embassy. Let us be even...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Correspondence (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Taoiseach the system used by his Department for dealing with correspondence. [12831/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us avoid that indignity at least.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would the Taoiseach not accept that telling a joke about assisting Donald Trump with a planning matter was at best an embarrassing mistake but at worst conveyed a desire to cuddle up to the US President and make common cause with him rather than criticise him for some of his dangerous and, in many cases, obnoxious policies? I say this in all seriousness, setting aside the debate as to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----about possible diplomatic retaliation? Whatever about Putin being an authoritarian, which he certainly is, and a dangerous force, Donald Trump is clearly ratcheting up-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the cold war confrontation as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a stretch.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am so helpful.