• People Before Profit Alliance TD for Dún Laoghaire
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Richard Boyd Barrett speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Harbour Authorities, Offshore Exploration, Semi-State Sector Remuneration, Harbour Authorities Expenditure, Tax Code

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Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

“I did not. I said it could have been public housing.”

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

“I will start by referring to what the Taoiseach stated earlier and the use of the term "extreme". This has become a familiar trope of the Taoiseach when referring to the socialist left and our policies. It is part of a wider, quite worrying, narrative that is taking hold in the mainstream political establishment across Europe, which says there are extremists on the right and extremists on...”

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2018)

“The Tory Party is in a mess of its own making. Its members have played with the fires of xenophobic nationalism, of anti-immigrant sentiment, of nostalgia for some imagined historical imperial glory and whatever else motivates these rather strange people in the Tory Party. They are tearing themselves apart currently. Frankly I am not sorry to see them do so given the dangerous politics...”

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• Has spoken in 252 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 362 written questions in the last year — above average among TDs.
• People have made 10 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 58 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Richard Boyd Barrett speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 1859 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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