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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.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For Europe.

Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the week in which President Donald Trump has declared war on the people of Palestine and the wider Arab and Muslim world by recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, an act which threatens to enflame conflict across the Middle East. Against that background of warmongering and increased militarism on the part of President Trump, it is more important than ever that Ireland holds...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria he plans to establish regarding affordability in local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, funded developments and on publicly owned land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52267/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to take vacant properties into public ownership in view of the worsening homeless emergency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52268/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the conditions in which persons resident in a building (details supplied) are trying to exist; the way in which the building passed inspections carried out by the Reception and Integration Agency and a fire safety company hired by it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52404/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (7 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if extra funding for a charity (details supplied) will be allocated for an education officer and information officer which will enable it to provide services for families and persons living with dyspraxia/DCD; the reason for his recent decision to refuse funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52381/17]

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are two issues I have big problems with. There is the content, but before that is the process through which we make this decision. It is one thing to answer parliamentary questions, but it is only in the last few days that Members have been told that a vote was to take place on joining and participating in PESCO. Is the Minister of State seriously trying to suggest to me that the...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Permanent Structured Cooperation: Motion (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think it is acceptable or democratic to make the decision on this issue tomorrow. I believe the Minister of State deliberately buried the matter under the unfolding Brexit drama, albeit a very important drama. The PESCO topic has been tactically and deliberately buried under the Brexit drama. I now turn to the substance of the motion. The Lisbon treaty reference is a red herring....