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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with immigration and integration will next meet. [4426/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If one were to believe the ads the Government ran about the cost of living that stated people were entitled to various supports from the Government, one would think there was a lot of support for people who need exceptional needs payments and are struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. My clinic was absolutely overrun in the days coming up to Christmas with people in desperate situations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the proposed running order of citizens’ assemblies. [4415/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was involved in organising, along with the Save Our Forests Save Our Lands campaign, a protest last week around the debate on Coillte's outrageous deal with Gresham House to buy up large amounts of land and forestry. The demands of that protest were strongly echoed by the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss when it expressed grave concern about the Gresham House deal. It has been...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government commits to a better quality of life and to addressing the cost-of-living crisis. One aspect of quality of life is access to sports events. It may be of interest to the Taoiseach to know that the biggest Republic of Ireland soccer supporters network is a group called the Ballybrack Seagulls, which has had an arrangement with the Football Association of Ireland,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You authorised the policy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I remind the Taoiseach that at the time he was signing off on secret payouts to people who had been forced to pay nursing home fees that they should not have had to pay, in order to contain potential cases being taken by other people who were entitled to refunds, ordinary people in this country were being absolutely crucified by the Government of which he was a part to pay off...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the efforts he intends to make to try and prevent further escalation of the war in Ukraine in his new role as Minister for Foreign Affairs of a neutral country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4456/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of a passport renewal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4609/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 514. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the review of safeguarding practices in an organisation (details supplied) has been completed; if so, when will it be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3973/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 517. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the advice to be given to a person with an acquired brain injury who is disabled, is a part-time parent to a child with ASD, and needs help when on access visits to manage their child’s behaviour with a suitable organisation to facilitate visits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4028/23]

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy McNamara will read it from now on.

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a member of the Business Committee, I requested this special debate on Coillte some weeks ago. Like many who were on the protest today and many of the thousands who have signed the "Save our Forest - Save our Lands" petition, I was absolutely horrified by the proposed deal between Coillte, a public forest company that is owned by the people, and a vulture fund. And Gresham House is, in...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will explain why it is a vulture fund. I will set the context for this. Our forests were destroyed by colonial and imperial plunder. It was brought down to about 1% in a country that used to have 80% forest of native woodland. One of the objectives and missions of the revolutionaries who fought for the independence of this State, right back to Parnell and the revolutionaries who fought...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to extend the moratorium on certain evictions after 31 March 2022; the other measures he will put in place to stop the flow of people into homelessness; if those measures will include an increase in the number of Part V property bought, allowing councils and approved housing bodies, AHBs, to buy homes where people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a priority question and the senior Minister is not here, which I find unacceptable. On Friday week I will accompany to the court Jackie and her husband - he has worked all his life for a State company and they have two kids - for a case involving an enforcement order, following which they will most likely be evicted from their home having done nothing wrong. Because they are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is the problem when the senior Minister is not here: we just get script. No disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, but that is the problem. None of what he said stops the cliff edge Jackie, her husband and their two kids face in being evicted next Friday from the home in which they have lived all their lives, and this during what is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Homeless Persons Supports (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know the Minister of State is not, but the Minister is. Jackie and her husband, who, I repeat, works for a State company, with their two kids have written to the Minister, to the Taoiseach and to everybody. They have written to Frank Curran, the head of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. They are over the income threshold, so none of the things the Minister of State said will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has not built a single house-----