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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not have much to add. I agree with everything the IHREC representatives said. I thank them for coming in and for their continuing work and I also welcome the IHREC's statement on family hubs. They are right in saying that we cannot allow them to become some sort of permanent solution to the housing emergency, particularly following the report that we have the highest proportion of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one final specific question. Does the IHREC have an opinion on pay equality and the pay inequality among public service workers and if this falls foul of the standard of equality one would expect in employment? It is now illegal to pay people differently for doing the same job based on their sex, yet we have institutionalised inequality in having three different pay scales in the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Development and Reform of the Budget Process: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was short and sweet.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Equality Budgeting: Discussion with the National Women's Council of Ireland (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the National Women's Council for their contributions. I have a question about the relationship between the micro and macro in assessing budgets, making recommendations or scrutinising and proofing things. It is one thing to look at a particular measure and ask if it impacts negatively, positively or not at all on the level of gender equality or some other index, but a more...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is historically declining.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many small companies will go out of business.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fairly desperate scramble of the political establishment in this country and elsewhere to understand why it is so discredited often focuses on trivia and superficial impressions about what is important and what motivates the electorate. Never more did we see this on show than during the visit of Prime Minister Trudeau, when the focus of much of the commentary was about socks, image and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach just forges ahead with his support for this deal that will only benefit multinational corporations.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau of Canada. [31465/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was very democratic.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will establish a Cabinet Committee on Housing. [32518/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will establish a Cabinet Committee on Education. [32519/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she plans to ratify the UNCRPD; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27657/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 425. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the redress awarded to a person from the Residential Institutions Redress Board should be included in a means assessment for a supplementary welfare payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33400/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Programme for Government Implementation (12 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the commitments in the programme for Government on improving the lives of persons with disabilities. [29820/17]

Srebrenica: Statements (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The horror of the Srebrenica massacre in 1995 is totally unspeakable. Some 8,000 people were murdered. There were mass graves. Some 440 children were among the dead who have been identified, while more than 1,000 of the victims still have not been identified. It is an absolutely horrific moment in European history. It is right that we should commemorate it and learn the lessons in order...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach include Egypt on his itinerary of foreign visits? As the Taoiseach knows, the trial of Ibrahim Halawa has dragged out for more than four years. He has suffered terribly in that time. He is going through a laughable legal process under what is now just a tin-pot repressive dictatorship that is locking up en masseanyone in its own population who politically dissents...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What if a crime has been committed?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a drop in the ocean.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The clock applies to all of us. The Taoiseach was right to acknowledge that there was something to be investigated given the outcome of the trial of the Jobstown defendants. I welcome that he did so. This is all in the public domain. The evidence was aired. There was a flat contradiction between objective video evidence and statements made by three very senior gardaí. There were...