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Defence Forces Operations: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have already brought shame on this State and shredded our tradition of military neutrality by facilitating 2 million US troops in going through Shannon Airport to conduct a disastrous war that led to more than 1 million deaths in Iraq, millions of people being displaced and the disastrous crisis we now see in Syria. Now the Government wants to compound the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not on that committee.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to respond briefly. For the record, it is not an all-party committee. The party and group that put forward this Bill is not represented on the committee. I think there has been an absolutely outrageous sabotage of this Bill for the most spurious of reasons. Medical evidence from doctors, the Irish Medical Organisation, Professor Mike Barnes, Professor David Finn and many...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will finish on this point. The procedural clarification given by the Ceann Comhairle was necessary because the message that went out from the Chairman of the committee and other members of the committee was to the effect that they had a right to stop this Bill from proceeding to Committee Stage. They do not have that right. Only the Dáil has that right. In fact, Standing Order 141...

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was it unanimous?

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Was it unanimous?

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was sabotage.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is made, a Cheann Comhairle.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I asked to come in on a similar issue to Deputy Gino Kenny. The Ceann Comhairle did not allow it but he then let several other people do exactly that on other issues.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the same issue.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not, actually.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not. I am making a point of order. This is the last day of the Dáil.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the last chance we will have to question what is on the Dáil schedule.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A report has been produced about Deputy Gino Kenny's medicinal cannabis Bill-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----where it has been stated that this Bill is going to be stopped even though it was passed democratically last December.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a subversion of the authority of the Dáil.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The health committee has no right to decide that a Bill that was passed by this House is not going any further.

Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.