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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [25446/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raise an issue with the Taoiseach about which he has received correspondence from the alliance supporting nursing homes. It wrote to the Taoiseach on 21 June 2024 regarding the national vetting service which, I believe, crosses Departments. I imagine that as it is dealt with under the National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Act 2012, it has implications across Government...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it happen?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it is not, it is up to the Government.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is up to the Government.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been asking for weeks.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a "Yes", then.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But it is in the your hands.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed; not unless we get commitment to a debate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an absolute disgrace that the Taoiseach signed an order to exclude the Aungier Street site from a requirement to deliver social and affordable housing, and that that site is going to be handed over to private interests when we urgently need social and affordable housing on public sites. It really underlines the criticism of the Housing Commission report regarding the need for a radical...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There will not be if Israel keeps bombing the Palesinians.

Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will probably take less than ten minutes. The Commission on Taxation and Welfare deserves great credit for the extensive work it did in producing its own report, which is a huge piece of work. Similarly, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight put in a fair bit of work and thought into producing its own report. Given the volume of recommendations involved I do not support many of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The losses will not stop at 400 jobs. Many of the people we are talking about are ancillary workers who work on "Fair City" and in other areas of RTÉ. Their jobs will be under threat as well.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government intervene to protect public service broadcasting? Will it ensure there are decent jobs for workers and that they are not the victims of this process? Will public service broadcasting be properly funded by taxing the obscene profits of social media companies?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: However, there will be crap conditions for workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was grimly amused by the Tánaiste's accusing others of ideological obsessions in response to an earlier question. Surely the ideological obsession that is most evident is that of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to privatise everything that moves, whether it is selling public land to private developers for housing or the issue I want to raise, public service broadcasting. It has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just "Fair City".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So the Government washes its hands of the matter. The Government is responsible for not reining in the obscene salaries, which everybody knew about, at the top of RTÉ, whether it was executives or a tiny number of overpaid presenters. Now, however, the people getting it in the neck are the skilled people - the ordinary workers. They are the ones who will lose their jobs and they will...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity to speak on behalf of People Before Profit. Local authorities are chronically under-resourced and underfunded and are having their powers stripped away from them systematically and on an ongoing basis through underfunding, outsourcing and backdoor privatisation to the point where they are becoming increasingly irrelevant when it comes to doing...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on discussions with his counterparts in Europe with regard to imposing sanctions on Israel because of its war crimes in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27578/24]