Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach
Dail Éireann — 2024-04-09
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

-----to renege on the promise to extend sick leave next year for workers. Already, the new Harris regime is suggesting it is going to renege on a promise to give additional sick leave to workers in order to back the interests of big business. Then, of course, there was the standing ovation over the words Simon Harris used about being repulsed, rightly, at the actions of Israel in its genocidal attack on the people of Palestine, when the same Ard-Fheis voted heavily against the occupied territories Bill, which would impose sanctions on Israel for its brutal and cruel treatment of the Palestinian people.
I was asked by somebody from the constituency of Deputy Harris to mention the shameful decision for the mother and baby homes redress scheme to exclude the Westbank Orphanage in Greystones. It was recommended for inclusion in all the mother and baby home reports and has been shamefully excluded, and I was asked to take this opportunity to ask him to address that utter wrong.

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Sitting date: 2024-04-09