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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (12 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that mean that the questions about the EU will be taken tomorrow?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Negotiations (12 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent conversations with Prime Minister May. [52956/17]

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I attended a meeting this morning in the Mansion House at which trade unions, political parties and housing NGOs gathered to express their frustration at the failure of Government policies to live up to the programme for Government commitments to provide affordable, quality and accessible housing for all as a priority and to work with others with good ideas. The gathering, which included...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach admit the policies have failed and listen to those who are now gathering to protest against the Government's policies?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (12 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach the issues he is planning to raise at the next European Council meeting. [50598/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Permanent Structured Co-operation (12 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of commitments if Ireland signs up to the PESCO agreement in view of that agreement's requirement to regularly increase the defence budget in real terms and to increasing the share of expenditure allocated to defence, research and technology with a view to nearing the 2% of total defence spending collective benchmark; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (12 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on discussions he has had with the administration of the United States. [52958/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (12 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in emergency accommodation has an entitlement to supplementary welfare allowance to facilitate a special diet for diagnosed Crohn's disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52978/17]

Paradise Papers: Statements (8 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt that securing a commitment to have no hard border between the North and South was a hugely important issue and failure to do so would have had a severe impact on people in the North and the South. It was right therefore that there was much concentration on that in public debate this week but it is worth saying that there was no significant divergence of opinion in this...

Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Bríd Smith. The Government is pulling a fast one here and Fianna Fáil is collaborating, indeed colluding with it in that. That should be no surprise. Fianna Fáil brought eternal shame on this country in allowing the US military use Shannon Airport to prosecute the criminal US assault on Iraq which resulted in as many as 1 million deaths, 4...

Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the money message.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the most cynical rubbish I have ever heard. I appeal to the public and press to simply read the document, Notification on Permanent Structured Cooperation. It refers to 20 binding commitments and there is no ambiguity about the language. One of these includes a "commitment to agree on common technical and operational standards of forces acknowledging that they need to ensure...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the same NATO that involves Donald Trump and the United States.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is what we are talking about. We are committing to the integration of Irish Defence Forces with NATO. We still have not got answers on the fact that it commits us to real increases in defence budgets, or a "successive medium-term increase in defence investment" and "increasing the share of expenditure allocated to defence research and technology". That will be reviewed on an annual...

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give us the advice then.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So the Tánaiste cannot give us that legal advice.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Attorney General given that advice?

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No answer.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is putting lives at risk.