Results 101-120 of 25,257 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his joint correspondence, along with the Spanish Prime Minister, to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the situation in Gaza. [10615/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am putting up my hand.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a question.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Other Deputies who did not table questions have spoken. Can I not-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Having submitted a question, seriously?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The grouping was not over-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is just out of order.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are out of order.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was an announcement today about the opening of the mother and baby redress scheme arising from the legislation around that scheme. There is widespread anger among people who went through the mother and baby institutions over the arbitrary six-month rule and exclusions from the redress scheme. I have never heard an answer from the Minister or the Government as to that arbitrary...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [10619/24]

Death of Charlie Bird: Expressions of Sympathy (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I join everyone else in paying tribute to Charlie Bird and express, on behalf of People Before Profit, our condolences and sympathies to his wife and all his family. As has already been mentioned, one group of people who will always be grateful to Charlie Bird is the Stardust families, for his relentless commitment to their campaign for justice. I am sure, as they await the outcome of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The bit the Taoiseach does not point out is that as we face this ever-worsening homelessness and housing crisis, the fact is that house prices and rents in this country now mean that the most basic thing that people need to operate in our society, an affordable roof over their head, is out of the reach of the vast majority of working people. When you look at the chronic state of our health...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I see their price too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not about the personal feelings of politicians; this is about the welfare and future of the people of this country. The Taoiseach's unexpected decision to signal that he is stepping down as Taoiseach bears all the signs of a Government that has lost confidence in itself because it knows it has lost the confidence of the majority of people in this country. We do not need a shifting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the democratic thing to do. The Taoiseach says that we in the Opposition think things should be perfect. No, we do not - we know perfection is not possible. However, in one of the richest countries in the world, we think it is shameful that we have the worst homelessness crisis in the history of the State and it gets worse week in, week out and month in, month out. Some 4,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Acting Chair. I have to go over to the Dáil shortly for questions but I will be raising Palestine. I thank Deputy Brady for producing the Bill and the IPSC and Sadaka for their ongoing tremendous work in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they face their darkest hour. The campaigning has been going on for many years in both cases and they are to be much commended....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 29 February 2024, the steps a person (details supplied) can take to ensure they receive their renewed passport in their new name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12446/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 548. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the conditions imposed on arts companies that received funding grants from the Arts Council in relation to adherence to employment law; if sanctions are imposed on such companies if they are found to be in breach of employment law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 558. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's working definition of public service broadcasting; if the term should be taken to imply all activity by State-owned broadcasters, or only activity taken by such broadcasters in service of a defined public service mission; if there is a definition; whether there are plans to ring-fence funding for particular...