Results 1-20 of 91 for cork speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...today, for two years, we have had the Ukrainian flags flying here, but we cannot fly the Palestinian flag, even though the local authorities in Dún Laoghaire, in south Dublin, in Fingal and in Cork are flying the Palestinian flag in solidarity with the suffering of the Palestinian people. Why is the Palestinian flag not flying outside on a day when they have suffered genocide at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been contacted by somebody in Cork about a new development in the rental sector. A company called HomeHak has apparently taken over a significant part of the rental market in Cork and is spreading beyond that area. People are required to put together CVs that include the name of the tenant, background references, employment history, minimum rent desired, maximum rent, the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of introducing light rail transport systems in the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40585/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and many other places. Is it not a bit Orwellian for the Taoiseach to say we are not getting involved with NATO and our neutrality is safe when we recently had NATO commanders in Cork assessing our troops and we are involving ourselves with NATO through the permanent structured co-operation, PESCO, and battle groups? Does it not make the Taoiseach’s...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...representatives of NATO, people who work with NATO and NATO members. It is stacked in a way designed to condition opinion in a particular direction. We have had NATO military commanders in Cork assessing our troops. We have signed up to PESCO, which is all about interoperability with NATO. Yet the Taoiseach is seriously suggesting the Government is not by stealth trying to drag us...

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... Of course, the Tánaiste will shake his head and say that this is not true but we have to look, not simply at people's assertions, but at certain facts. This week, NATO naval chiefs are in Cork with Irish naval chiefs. At the end of last year, we had a NATO assessment of Irish forces in Cork by a NATO general, Sam Mason. Of course it is true. The Tánaiste can reads the...

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...example, I was contacted in March - and the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, will be interested in this - by housekeepers and domestic cleaners in hospitals in University Hospital Limerick, Cork University Hospital and Letterkenny University Hospital. All of them said that these are the courses they have to study as cleaners: antimicrobial resistance and infection control hand...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...music and has played with some of Ireland’s greats, including John Spillane and Christy Moore. Like many others, he is caught in this dire housing crisis. Tomorrow, on the anniversary of his coming up from Cork, where he is from, every week to perform that song, it would be good for the Taoiseach to say something to people like him about the efforts they are making to appeal to...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...more likely to be looking at €3,000. When we look at the average that renters are paying as a proportion of their income being around 40%, that masks the much more grim and desperate reality in Dublin, Galway, Cork, etc., where they are more likely, based on average incomes, to be paying 50%, 60%, 70%, 80% and, in my area, 100% of average incomes. This is what you will see when...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...with £315 million sterling. At the end of that dispute, which the film highlights in the most shocking way, there was an enormous simultaneous Garda mobilisation to break the occupations and strikes in Henry Street, Cork, Limerick, Tralee, Waterford and so on. It was a massive Garda mobilisation to assist the company and the liquidators to take out the goods and drag people away...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...attendants or domestic attendants in hospitals. They represented people who previously might have been categorised as cleaners in hospitals and they came from University Hospital Limerick, Cork University Hospital and Letterkenny hospital. What I learned was very interesting. As one woman put it, when she first became a cleaner 18 years ago, she was given a cloth, a bucket and mop....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government Performance Indicators and Public Spending Code: National Oversight and Audit Commission (17 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... Does NOAC itself do similar over-time comparisons to assess how we are doing, not just from the beginning to the end of one year but over a longer period? I was quite shocked by the data. Cork County Council's stock was minus 302 when demolitions and sales were taken into account. Again, that is based on NOAC figures. The stock in my own area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown was plus...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for peace or a force driven by principle rather than strategic self-interest if he remains silent about that? Of course, in some ways the agenda is given away when one sees us being evaluated by NATO in Cork. I thank the Minister for the reply in which he stated that we have made a voluntary decision to be evaluated by NATO. I got this letter. It is quite extraordinary voluntarily...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What were they doing in Cork then?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Government is using the appalling war Putin launched in Ukraine, which we all condemn, to move us ever closer to NATO. Last week, I asked why NATO assessors were assessing Irish troops in County Cork-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and the commitment of this majority of people in this country to that neutrality in order to align us with NATO to the extent that we now have NATO commanders assessing our troops in County Cork.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the last few hours, thejournal.iereported that Irish troops were being assessed by NATO assessors in the uplands of north Cork, between Mitchelstown and Fermoy. They were being assessed by a US Navy commander, Sam Mason, who is part of the NATO command. Very worryingly, Commandant Daire Roache explained that this is "part of a program that is for partner nations within NATO." Every...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 382. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the person who is responsible for inviting four separate NATO-connected warships to visit Cork harbour in recent months; the reason that such invitations were issued; if these warships having been welcomed into Irish ports or allowed to use Ireland’s seas violates the Hague Convention on Neutrality; and if he will make a statement...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...recess. The promise has been broken. Many people are suffering as a result. Rents have reached €2,000 and €2,200 a month in Dublin. This year, rents have increased by 10% in Dublin and Cork, 13% in Galway, 15% in Limerick, 16% in Waterford and 24% in Leitrim. Record numbers of families and homeless people are on the street. The Government will go off on its summer...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and they reckon that more people dropped out of college last year than ever before because of accommodation costs and the cost-of-living crisis. That is their estimate. In University College Cork last year, there were record numbers of students going to food banks at the beginning of term. Such were the numbers and so desperate were the students for food that, according to one report,...