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Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister does not accept is just how greedy the people concerned are and what they were willing to do. They were trying and willing to ratchet up charges by between 50% and 200%. All we are getting from the Minister is a promise that it will not happen for 12 months, but there is no promise that it will not happen in the future. We have been down this road before; it happened 15...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why will the Minister not pass the measure we propose which would cap charges and reintroduce waivers? The reason is the waste companies do not want him to do so.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister must balance his loyalty to the profit seeking bandits with what is a jury that has come in on the private waste industry and privatisation.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have made a mess of private waste collection. They are racketeers and extortioners and should be put out of business.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should bring waste collection services back within public ownership and have a fair way to pay for them.

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The mass movement against water charges is set to score two victories in a week. It is forcing the Government to reverse a scandalous effort by private waste companies to hike in charges to extortionate levels, and later in the week the Government will be forced to climb down in its effort to inflict water charges on people. The movement against water charges was a child of the movement...

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the song "Imagine", John Lennon asked us to imagine if there were no countries and a brotherhood of man. That is the view held by socialists. We do not believe in national borders or frontiers. We believe there is one race, the human race. Frankly, I find it frustrating, to put it mildly, that a previous speaker suggested that those of us who are critical of the European Union and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the next British-Irish Council meeting. [16863/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are now being shot.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We in People Before Profit want absolutely nothing to do with some of the vile and racist forces that are campaigning for an exit from the European Union in Britain, some of whom have stoked up the sort of racist conditions and sentiment that took the life of Labour MP, Jo Cox. We must all dissociate ourselves from that. Having said that, I disagree with the consensus in the House that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to campaign in Britain on the referendum on a British exit from the European Union. [17144/16]

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I brought an issue to the House with regard to St. Augustine's special school in Blackrock for children with mild intellectual disabilities. That was following a mobilisation, if you like, by very concerned parents about the children and plans by St. John of God Community Services to cut HSE funding to vocational services. I was glad to hear that on foot of the protests and...

Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in the past, outreach projects for vulnerable young people in poorer and more disadvantaged areas. That is happening, and I ask the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health to have a close look at what is being pulled here and whether it is line with the policy of the Government.

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]