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European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just gone over the time.

European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle interrupted me ten seconds before I was due to finish.

European Council Meeting: Statements (19 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let me finish. I ask the Taoiseach to use his platform within the European Union to condemn all bombing and to call for all foreign military intervention to cease in Syria and in the wider region.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is not a supplementary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not a supplementary question. It is a question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am keen for some clarity on the health budget and the allocations. Can the Taoiseach repeat the date the sub-committee last met? Did he say it was 23 September?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was the date for the meeting of the sub-committee?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Excellent, that is clarity, at least, although I doubt if I will get clarity in response to the rest of my question. Today the Taoiseach repeated something the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform said on the day of the budget. It was the assertion that this budget includes the biggest health allocation in the history of the State. That was challenged within minutes of the claim being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unfortunately, I do not have speaking time during Priority Questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was €15 billion in 2008.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have checked it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about my question on mental health?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on health last met. [30616/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a similar theme, it is quite extraordinary that the committee dealing with the arts should only have met after the budget. That says it all in terms of the commitment of the Government to the arts, in that there was no discussion whatsoever prior to the budget about properly resourcing and funding the arts. This was after we had a major discussion in this House in which Members on all...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on arts, heritage and Gaeltacht affairs last met. [30614/16]

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could it coincide with our demonstration?

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it is on Syria.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We pushed for the debate as well.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume the Deputy will be out at our protest tomorrow.

Order of Business (18 Oct 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is one-sided humanitarianism.