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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has not been lodged yet, though.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not actually say that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She said they were free to make a claim.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [2785/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the central discussions at Davos - ironically, given that it is packed full of multi-billionaires and the world's elite - was inequality. One could not make it up. In so far as it was discussed, Oxfam made a shocking presentation revealing that eight billionaires own the same amount of personal wealth as the poorest 50% of the world's population. The presentation made it clear that...
- Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope these questions will be answered because they are very serious questions and they deserve investigation.
- Establishment of a Commission of Inquiry into the National Asset Management Agency: Statements (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Many of the general points have been made. I will not go over them except to say that it is utterly unacceptable not to have a complete investigation into all matters pertaining to NAMA so that we can get to the bottom of what has gone on with the vast amount of assets, loans and property for which it has been responsible, and whether it has served the public interest in how it has managed...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to cease the downgrading of emergency services at University Hospital Waterford consequent on the lack of 24-7 emergency cath lab facilities and the contingent transfer of patients to Cork and Dublin; if he will cease the ad hoc regional service planning between his Department, the HSE and hospital groups and ensure that local...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 99. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which parents of a child with a medical condition known to respond therapeutically to treatment with a cannabis based product can apply to have that product made available to their child in a prompt manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4616/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the date for the opening of a new operating theatre in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin to deal with children waiting for operations (details supplied); if he will order an independent review of scoliosis services here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4620/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assure parents of children with disabilities that their assessments of needs will be completed on time, as per the Disability Act 2005; if the statements of need will be completed on time and implemented by the HSE promptly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4618/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a SUSI grant. [4811/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is now clear that Donald Trump's extremist views were not some electoral ploy but that, in fact, a dangerous far-right extremist and racist is now the President of the United States. During questions to the Taoiseach a year ago, I asked was Trump dangerous and racist and the Taoiseach responded to me-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I asked the Taoiseach-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----did he agree that he was dangerous and racist and the Taoiseach said that he was dangerous and racist.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What I want to ask the Taoiseach is, when somebody shows that he is dangerous and racist and is implementing racist attacks and policies on vulnerable people, at what point do we draw the line and say it is not acceptable to shake hands with such a person, to give him PR opportunities and to give him gifts on behalf of the Irish people. The policy of appeasement in the 1930s of Hitler and...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What has hurling got to do with this?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will send the Taoiseach the transcript.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (31 Jan 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And dangerous.