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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Transport Policy (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and they are not taking on enough full-time staff. The union has raised the matter. I ask the Taoiseach to look at that as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very critical of China.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am, actually.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nobody knocking on my door.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Long before the current escalation of violence that we have seen, the genocidal attack on Gaza by Israel and the events of 7 October, I pointed out to the Government, and to Ursula von der Leyen when she was here, something that was not lost on the people of Palestine or the Middle East, which was the shocking double standards in EU policy when we contrast Europe's attitude towards Russia's...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: An issue we should bring into the shared island considerations is that of water safety. We have a lot to learn from what is happening in the North and in the UK. It may be of interest to Members to know that 102 people drowned in 2021 in the Republic of Ireland. This is one of the worst rates of drowning in western Europe and three times the rate of drowning in the UK and the North of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his engagements at the special meeting of the European Council on Ukraine and the EU budget. [7882/24]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You have some brass neck. I have been campaigning for Shanganagh-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and for the development of public and affordable housing there for 17 years. It was Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the council that insisted that there would be some private development. It was People Before Profit that argued relentlessly that the entire development-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not talking to you.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit argued that the entire development should be social and affordable. We eventually won out against the resistance of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, but it has taken 17 years to finally deliver - they have still not been delivered - the social and affordable housing on that site. What we are saying is that we should supplement the lack of capacity in the private sector,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not affordable. We need a State construction company to build up capacity, to build houses and to make those houses public and affordable.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because she was heckling.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because she was heckling.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She was heckling. You do not like being heckled, do you, Taoiseach?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No. So why should she heckle me?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not by me.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not by me.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not by me.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She was heckling. I said I was not talking to her.