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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the United States of America and the meetings he had. [12830/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except that one question is mine.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am joking.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The last questions are mine.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time is the Ceann Comhairle allocating for each block?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would be happy to cut my very specific question about correspondence to six or seven minutes-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and then give extra time to the other two.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Travel (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent visit to China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14029/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent report that Israel is responsible for a 2007 air strike on a Syrian nuclear reactor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14032/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the issue of the continued incarceration of a person (details supplied) in an Israeli prison and the recent ruling against an open trial with his counterparts across Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14031/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the UNHCR reports presented at the recent Human Rights Council that outline the way in which living conditions across the West Bank and Gaza have worsened in particular for children over the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14030/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent trip to the United States of America and the meetings he had there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11336/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider calling in the Russian Ambassador to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria and eastern Ghouta; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11337/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rate of PRSI payable is the same for S class self-employed persons at 4% and A1 class employees; if so, the reason they are not entitled to the same social welfare benefits, in particular jobseeker's benefit; her plans to extend the same benefits to self employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the...

Government Response to Salisbury Attack: Statements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is really disingenuous of the Minister to suggest that the decision to expel a Russian diplomat does not impinge on our neutrality. Anybody looking objectively at what is happening globally would say there is an escalating confrontation between the United States, Europe and Russia. That is clear. Some of the most horrific outcomes of the new cold war and the confrontation between the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was no answer regarding Russia.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach does not want to answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to know also what, if anything, the Taoiseach said to the President of the European Council, Mr. Donald Tusk, about matters Russian in the aftermath of the Salisbury attack but also significantly after widespread reports of known and confirmed Russian atrocities in eastern Ghouta, including the use of chemical weapons. There was no call, as I understand it, from the Taoiseach,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the Taoiseach is the one who has made a decision that has profound implications for Ireland's neutrality based on a conspiracy. The Taoiseach has presented to us a conspiracy that there is no other plausible explanation. That is not evidence; that is a conspiracy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet when it comes to the appalling use of these weapons by Russia in eastern Ghouta, not a dickie bird is heard. In fact, last week in the Dáil, myself and Deputy Gino Kenny asked that the Taoiseach summon the Russian ambassador to the Dáil over what Russia was doing in eastern Ghouta. He ignored us and refused to do it. This week, the Taoiseach is expelling an official from the...