I commend Deputy Coppinger, on bringing this Bill forward, and all the groups and organisations that have been campaigning for legal recognition for intersex and non-binary people. To me, it is a very straightforward and simple issue. Nobody should be denied, dismissed, discriminated against or persecuted because of who they are. To fail to respect people for who they are and to fail to give them legal recognition is…
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Richard Boyd Barrett
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1,583
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
153,844
words spoken in the chamber
Across 941 contributions
216
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
278
topics asked about
Across 20 departments
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Questions asked 1,583 in all
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Contributions to debates 941 in all
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| December 2024 | 0 | 1 |
| January 2025 | 12 | 11 |
| February 2025 | 65 | 141 |
| March 2025 | 31 | 67 |
| April 2025 | 100 | 31 |
| May 2025 | 109 | 2 |
| June 2025 | 97 | 0 |
| July 2025 | 127 | 0 |
| August 2025 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 56 | 0 |
| October 2025 | 50 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 82 | 62 |
| December 2025 | 71 | 54 |
| January 2026 | 107 | 95 |
| February 2026 | 125 | 83 |
| March 2026 | 98 | 48 |
| April 2026 | 57 | 62 |
| May 2026 | 58 | 114 |
| June 2026 | 73 | 53 |
| July 2026 | 131 | 12 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 2 |
| September 2026 | 97 | 62 |
| October 2026 | 37 | 41 |
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Plus 666 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.
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- constituency Dún Laoghaire 29 November 2024 to now
- party People Before Profit-Solidarity 29 November 2024 to now
We said you were killing it.
That is very different.
We said the Government was killing it. That is very different.
This Bill represents an historic betrayal of this country’s tradition of neutrality, instigated by people like Wolfe Tone and later by James Connolly, Pádraig Pearse and Constance Markievicz. The Government is betraying that tradition, and it has no right to do so because that tradition of neutrality is the property of the people of this country, not of any government. Let us be clear that, if this passes, there is n…
It is doing it right now. I was talking to Ukrainians who fled to this country because they do not want to fight for either Zelenskyy or Putin and they looked for refuge. If refuge is about anything, it is about providing refuge to people who do not want to fight in wars but the Irish Government is checking people's papers and if they do not have a pass on conscription they are being sent back to fight and die in a w…
The Government is out of order.
Irish neutrality does not belong to any single government. It belongs to the people. A commitment was made in the Nice and Lisbon treaties about the triple lock and the Taoiseach is in breach of that. When we stick up these signs, we are holding the Government to account for commitments that were made to the Irish people about neutrality, which is their property, not yours.
No guillotine.
No guillotine.
It is nothing to do with the work to rule.
The Dáil is being censored.
Yes, hold this one up.
16. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will meet next. [66938/26]
Tomorrow postgraduate researchers, of whom there are many thousands, who actually do the research in our third-level institutions will be out protesting. They are continuing with their planned protest action because most of them are living on stipends that are below the minimum wage. It is outrageous when they are in our third-level institutions. In the budget, the Government found €118 million to give to the big mul…
I want to contrast it with PhD researchers.
Below the minimum wage.
41. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will meet next. [65174/26]
The Bill has dozens of measures to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act, the cumulation of finance Bills for years and years. When we look at it in the round of what this budget has done and how it adds to the existing situation in this country, it primarily consolidates. It is also well-named. What the Taxes Consolidation Act does is consolidate the gross inequality in the distribution of wealth and income in this coun…
What makes the world go round? Workers do. We saw that on display yesterday. I went to about 15 picket lines - people from the national museum, the Irish lights, the councils, teachers, SNAs, people in further education, health workers of all the different grades, and the list just goes on. You could not move without seeing a picket yesterday and it shows the importance of public sector workers to making our society …
Not true.
Not agreed.
We need an emergency debate on the fact that hundreds of thousands of public sector workers feel they have no choice but to take strike action - the people who work in these buildings and who look after us, health workers, teachers, people in further education, councils and so on - because even now, the Taoiseach has failed to acknowledge that the pay increases they have got over recent years have not kept pace with …
I strongly support this amendment. It relates to a later amendment of my own, which proposes the deletion of the section requiring 40% of all revenues that go to RTÉ to be spent on production outsourced to the independent sector. The amendment requires that employment rights and workers' rights be properly upheld, that the use of buy-out contracts for actors and performers be avoided, and that public money not be use…
The companies are not complying with the law. They are not complying with the EU copyright directive, which relates to buy-out contracts. They are not complying with the law when it comes to the fixed-term workers legislation. Not a single worker in the Irish film industry has a contract of indefinite duration. That is after approximately €5 billion has gone into the industry. Do I trust them with AI? If they are not…