Results 121-140 of 25,544 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am struck by the extraordinary double standards that the European Union displays and the Taoiseach seems to go along with when we look at the contrast between the way in which the Ukrainian situation is presented and the way in which the Palestinian situation is presented. It may just be a symbolic thing but tomorrow is Nakba, the anniversary of the catastrophe, as it is known to the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been promised for weeks. Can we have it soon?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach boasted earlier about the increased construction of housing under his Government. What he is not acknowledging is that the majority of what is being delivered is completely unaffordable. We get 10% social housing on private developments. The rest is unaffordable rents and unaffordable house prices and the result is record homelessness, particularly egregiously for families...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends to extend the end of life for taxi saloon cars to 13 years, as has been done with 2014 cabs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21357/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 676. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to improve the protection of students' and postgraduate researchers' right and freedom to protest in a peaceful manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21590/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 677. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that will be taken to condemn Trinity College Dublin's threats of disciplinary hearings, fines and expulsion to individual members of the democratically elected TCD Students' Union and Postgraduate Workers' Organisation, and a €214,000 fine issued to the TCD Students' Union, in response to peaceful student protests; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 678. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to clarify the future measures that will be taken to protect individuals within a students' or researchers' union from being singled out or targeted by senior staff with disciplinary threats in response to action taken by the union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21592/24]

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit requested this debate at a meeting of the Business Committee. We are glad it is happening. We requested it because, like everybody else, we are being inundated by families who are concerned for the welfare of their children. It is clear that the State - the Government - is failing children with additional needs and disabilities. That is an unacceptable moral failure...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The 50th anniversary of the Dublin-Monaghan bombings will occur on 17 May. The families of the victims of the bombings are still looking for truth and justice. A film documentary opens tomorrow, which again looks at those bombings and the murders. The producer of the film "Anatomy of a Massacre" is in the Public Gallery. I met him and a relative of one of the victims. I refer to Cathy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The boycott precipitated it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And a free Palestine.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hamas was not even around in 1987. It did not even exist.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is not interested.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not, actually.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am against its current direction.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: European Union (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has good environmental directives.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on his most recent communications with his European counterparts in relation to imposing sanctions on Israel in light of the International Court of Justice’s recent ruling that there is a plausible case that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20911/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope it is clear at this stage that there is no level of atrocity that Israel is not willing to commit against the Palestinian people. It should have been clear long before now for a state that was built on ethnic cleansing on an ongoing basis, on apartheid and on a 17-year-long siege of Gaza, but now, when we look at the massacre in Gaza, it should be clear. Under the genocide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit put a motion to the Dáil in November of last year asking the Government to take a case against Israel for genocide under the ICJ and it voted against it. Now, belatedly, because South Africa did what Ireland should have done, the Government is saying there will be some class of intervention. I suppose later is better than not at all, but when we consider the horror...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been campaigning for Palestinian rights since I was there in 1987 - I lived there - and my position has been very consistent over a very long time, as has been the movement in this country of solidarity with Palestine. My position is that, in relation to the apartheid state of Israel, we need to do what was done to the apartheid state of South Africa. A state based on apartheid and...