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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [21327/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised this issue with the Taoiseach before but I would like to repeat it so that action follows.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the issue of medical evidence being provided to local authorities on the question of medical priority housing allocation. Something needs to be done about this. Medical adjudicators are second-guessing specialists, whether they are consultants, OTs, psychologists or psychiatrists. They are often people who do not have these specialties but they are second-guessing them and putting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, 40 workers in the Newpark School of Music received the shock announcement that the school, which has 600 students and has been located on Newpark school grounds for 40 years, was to shut down with a week's notice. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us an opportunity for a Topical Issue debate on this tomorrow, but I want to flag this issue now because these workers' jobs are...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has resorted to McCarthyism. That is what we saw here today. It is absolutely unbelievable but it is not surprising it would have adopted the tactics of the Cold War merchants of the United States who sought to actively crank up inter-imperialist rivalry to the terrifying level that at one point we were on the brink of a nuclear war over Cuba. Those are the stakes. The...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yugoslavia.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of us will be very familiar with people coming into our constituency office to show us photographs, as Deputy Gould did earlier. I thank him and Sinn Féin for this important motion. There is damp rolling down the walls and the windows. There is black mould in the bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms. Clothes and bedclothes are made damp as a result. There is a prevalence of...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also welcome the Palestinian ambassador, other members of the Palestinian community and activists to the Gallery. I welcome, in particular, Zak Hania, his wife Batoul and their children. I am delighted Zak escaped the horror of what Israel has been inflicting on the people of Gaza, which continues as we speak, as men, women and children are slaughtered by this genocidal regime. This day...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we get a chance to debate it, we can discuss that, as promised.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do support reference rents.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I campaigned for reference rents.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will have a debate then. You promised a debate last week. When?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just asked him when.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A number of weeks ago, the Housing Commission the Taoiseach set up issued a damning report about the failure of Government policy to address the absolutely dire housing and homelessness crisis. We have been asking since then for a debate on that report. We were led to understand last week that such a debate would take place, yet it is not on the schedule for this week. Given the absolute...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She gave the green light for the genocide.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the plan for a new-build school in Dún Laoghaire (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23890/24]