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Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State could impose caps on premiums.

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State should have a look at the Canadian model.

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not doubt for a minute that the Minister of State has put a great deal of work and effort into producing this report and examining this issue over the last while but the level of disappointment and, in many cases, despair at the failure of this report, with all its recommendations and promised actions, to address it in any way that will impact in any meaningful sense on the tens of...

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2:(a) To delete, in the seventh paragraph, after the words “investigate these serious allegations so as”, the words “to ensure public confidence in An Garda Síochána and”; (b) To insert, in the seventh paragraph, after the words “respond to the public disquiet caused by these allegations” the words “and noting...

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The long and terrible struggle of Maurice McCabe and other heroic Garda whistleblowers is certainly not over but at least there is light at the end of the tunnel after the horrendous journey these whistleblowers have undertaken to expose wrongdoing, malpractice, criminal misconduct and corruption in the Garda Síochána, an institution which is supposed to uphold law and justice....

Brexit and Special Designation for the North: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“notes that:-- the British Conservative Party are attempting to use the split with the European Union (EU) as the pretext for a greater ‘liberalisation’ of trade, the creation of lower corporation tax and a bargain basement economy for working people; --...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with a Disability agreed by Ireland in 2007 will now be given a date for ratification; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4619/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a progress report on the appointment of a person or body to review the preclearance at Dublin and Shannon airports. [7034/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will examine the case of persons (details supplied) and clarify the position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7885/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsIreland Service (16 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will address the consistent lack of computer facilities for jobseekers in the Dún Laoghaire social welfare office (details supplied); the reason new computer facilities have yet to be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7900/17]

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No lashes on the left-----

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Civil disobedience is slightly different from a smear campaign.

Confidence in Government: Motion (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the spectator sport that, sadly, politics often descends into, instead of dealing with the serious issues that affect people, the chat around the Dáil among journalists and politicians is that the crisis has receded, the Taoiseach will survive a bit longer and because of decisions made by the Independent Alliance and Fianna Fáil, the Government will hobble on for a bit longer....

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Issues (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is that it just gets worse. If there was any sign that things were improving, I would give some credence to what the Minister of State said. It is not that the debate started today or yesterday or even a year ago. When I stood at the top of the Chamber in 2012 and warned that there woujld be slum conditions similar to those in Sean O'Casey's time, I remember that I was scoffed...

Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not accept them.

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Issues (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite constant announcements, promises and plans from the Government about its intention to deal with the housing and homelessness crisis as a matter of top priority, every time the Minister examines that crisis or talks about it and every day that passes, the crisis gets worse. It is a crisis that the Government promised in its programme for Government would be resolved within 100 days...

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To hide behind the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the senior Minister in the Minister of State's Department is the Taoiseach on this issue is, to be honest, preposterous. Has anything changed in the mindset of the Government vis-à-visthe facilitation of the US war machine at Shannon given that there is now a president that even the Government has brought itself to criticise?...

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of deployments of troops there were to Shannon Airport in 2016; the cost to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7720/17]

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite overwhelming public opposition, more than 2.5 million US troops have been facilitated at Shannon Airport since 2003 with the support of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to conduct bloody wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen, killing hundreds of thousands of people. The public is paying for this. How much are the Defence Forces spending to facilitate the US war machine? Does the...

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have long disagreed with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the facilitation of the US war machine at Shannon and the bloody consequences of that for Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen and on the spending of money to facilitate that by the Department of Defence and others. Can the Minister of State tell me if the Government intends to continue to spend public money to facilitate the US...