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- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the strategy document be published? Will we get ample time to discuss it properly in the House? Is legislation planned on foot of that, particularly to deal with what appear to be the Government's plans for long-term leasing arrangements with the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, and big property developers?
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When?
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a recording.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government does not need a PPS number for that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does Mr. Joyce say the Financial Services Ombudsman clearly is not a consumer champion?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Redressing the Imbalance Report: Free Legal Advice Centres (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for the introduction and for the work they have done on this document. I enthusiastically support the thrust of what FLAC is trying to do. I would like to ask about how we might rectify the problems that exist. I have recently come across quite a few cases, involving the Financial Services Ombudsman and other bodies, in which the "inequality of arms" alluded to by Mr....
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the controversy regarding the planned incinerator at Poolbeg and Greyhound Waste, his views on whether it is now time for elected representatives to take back responsibility for waste and recycling management; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34303/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of his acceptance of the severity of the housing crisis, his plans and the streams of funding he is making available for social housing; the new potential sources of funding he has identified for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34304/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Training (17 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 543. To ask the Minister for Defence the joint military training operations that the Irish Defence Forces have been involved in the past twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34693/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a disgraceful comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an absolutely disgraceful comment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The ambassador's document did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Rubbish. Explain the law of return.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I saw it for myself.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in international law.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How does the ambassador justify that? How does he justify those double standards? As people such as Archbishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela have done, I would certainly describe the Israeli state as an apartheid state with different laws for people depending on their race or religion. For example, at checkpoints going into the West Bank, there is a channel for those who are Israeli or European...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am one of the people who thinks the ambassador should be expelled from the country. This has nothing to do with him personally, rather it concern the policies of his state. Like Desmond Tutu, I think the time for treating Israel as a normal state is over because it is not behaving as a normal state. I want to ask the ambassador questions about that contention. For the record, it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We would not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Gaza - Middle East Peace Process: Palestinian and Israeli Ambassadors (3 Sep 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise.