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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like this looked into.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is Defence Forces.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He gave me permission.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised this issue once or twice over the past few weeks but I would like to raise it with the Taoiseach because I am not satisfied with the responses I have got. I was contacted by a Sergeant Patrick Gorman, who served for 35 years in the navy. He had a conduct rating that was exemplary. He had an active service record: 1986 in Lebanon; 1993, Somalia; 2004, Liberia; 2005, Liberia;...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with defence will next meet. [23880/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [21327/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised this issue with the Taoiseach before but I would like to repeat it so that action follows.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the issue of medical evidence being provided to local authorities on the question of medical priority housing allocation. Something needs to be done about this. Medical adjudicators are second-guessing specialists, whether they are consultants, OTs, psychologists or psychiatrists. They are often people who do not have these specialties but they are second-guessing them and putting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, 40 workers in the Newpark School of Music received the shock announcement that the school, which has 600 students and has been located on Newpark school grounds for 40 years, was to shut down with a week's notice. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us an opportunity for a Topical Issue debate on this tomorrow, but I want to flag this issue now because these workers' jobs are...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has resorted to McCarthyism. That is what we saw here today. It is absolutely unbelievable but it is not surprising it would have adopted the tactics of the Cold War merchants of the United States who sought to actively crank up inter-imperialist rivalry to the terrifying level that at one point we were on the brink of a nuclear war over Cuba. Those are the stakes. The...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yugoslavia.

Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of us will be very familiar with people coming into our constituency office to show us photographs, as Deputy Gould did earlier. I thank him and Sinn Féin for this important motion. There is damp rolling down the walls and the windows. There is black mould in the bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms. Clothes and bedclothes are made damp as a result. There is a prevalence of...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also welcome the Palestinian ambassador, other members of the Palestinian community and activists to the Gallery. I welcome, in particular, Zak Hania, his wife Batoul and their children. I am delighted Zak escaped the horror of what Israel has been inflicting on the people of Gaza, which continues as we speak, as men, women and children are slaughtered by this genocidal regime. This day...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we get a chance to debate it, we can discuss that, as promised.