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Death of Jo Cox, MP: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit and the Anti-Austerity Alliance, I extend our heartfelt condolences and sympathies to Jo Cox’s husband, Brendan, her two children and all her family and friends. Jo's murder was an utterly vile and obnoxious act which must be condemned outright. British politics and the Labour Party in Britain have suffered the loss of a champion of progressive...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Greyhound?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Ministerial Responsibilities (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of the division of responsibilities between him and the Minister for State in his Department. [15600/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battle Groups (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of military exercises involving Irish soldiers and European Union battle groups; and other joint military exercises that have taken place in the past year, the other countries which were involved in the exercises; if he plans such exercises in the future;and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16872/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the weapons and equipment his Department or the Defence Forces purchased in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date; that they plan to purchase in the coming year, detailing the value and nature of the purchase and the country and companies from which these purchases were or will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16894/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 238. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of extra staff that have been employed in local authorities and to which authorities, to support the housing assistance payment and rent accommodation scheme, and to which scheme they have been allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16804/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 239. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he received a request from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for extra staff to facilitate the roll out of the housing assistance payment and rent accommodation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16805/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 240. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide copies of memos, instructions and directives to local authorities or individual communications to particular councils in relation to all aspects of housing, including but not limited to, staffing levels, emergency accommodation, building programmes, acquisitions, Part 5 and Part 8 and allocation priorities...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow all persons in emergency homeless situations to self-accommodate; his further plans to cease to limit this option to families and to cease the requirement that persons be put in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16807/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide funds for emergency accommodation in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown to prevent the relocation of homeless people to emergency shelters in the city where they are away from family and support networks. [17027/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) was refused payment under the disability allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16786/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 574. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will respond to allegations that some members of the Defence Forces serving on missions, such as Operation Pontus in the Mediterranean, are being paid less than the minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17052/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 575. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of operations the Defence Forces are involved in abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17053/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 576. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why the Defence Forces use the anti-malaria drug Larium, despite its known side-effects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17054/16]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 577. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will justify the enforcement of the use of the anti-malaria drug, Larium, which has serious side effects, by the Defence Forces abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17055/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Exploration Industry (16 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he has had discussions with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on the exploratory drilling at Woodburn Forest in County Antrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16155/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will introduce a national ban on hydraulic fracturing, given the international evidence on its dangers; if not, why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16154/16]

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was to be no discussion in the Dáil.

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of clarification, the motion was not to be discussed in the Chamber.

Report of Standing Order 112 Select Committee on the Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 2013/34/EU: Motion (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This motion is part of an ongoing and systematic cover-up, one involving the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and others in the House, of the country's collusion with aggressive and large-scale corporate tax avoidance by the largest and most profitable multinationals in the world operating in Europe, including this country. It is extraordinary that the only reason we are even debating this motion...