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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Michael D. was never part of the political establishment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He was on the left wing of the Labour Party.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He was an honourable exception.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because there is not too much detail.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The political establishment, which I will define for Deputy Micheál Martin, comprises the people who have dominated this State since its inception-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will consider establishing a Cabinet committee on the arts. [31466/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I was saying, the political establishment, which I will define for Deputy Martin as being the people who have dominated the State for the past 75 years, like a narrative in which they say they are the people in favour of enterprise and jobs whereas the left just wants to give out about things.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The truth is that we just want different priorities in developing jobs and enterprise. One of those, which we have talked about incessantly, and at the time of the previous budget, People Before Profit was the only group of people to include it in their budget submission, is the need to increase the arts budget significantly and to recognise the enormous, cultural, economic and social...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been some rhetorical acknowledgement of that issue by the Government and Fianna Fáil, largely because of the work of the National Campaign for the Arts and others. In reality, however, the arts budget for 2017 was reduced by 16% on what it was in 2016 and we are at the bottom of the league table when it comes to expenditure on arts as a proportion of gross domestic product,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jul 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We snuffed out the Blueshirts for a while.
- 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.