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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 732. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amounts that have been accrued but are as yet unpaid by the Legal Aid Board to personal insolvency practitioners, solicitors and barristers under the personal insolvency arrangement review legal aid service since its inception, from 2016 to date in 2022; the details of these liabilities; and the companies to whom they...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 920. To ask the Minister for Health if the living alone allowance is reckonable for a means test for the medical card for persons aged over 70 years but not for persons under 70 years; if so, the rationale for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37528/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the annual afforestation target of 8,000 ha is consistent with the advice of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36987/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1123. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of private meetings that he or his junior Minister with responsibility for forestry had with Coillte in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36988/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions that he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to the student accommodation crisis that will hit in early September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36668/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last year, there was an absolutely dire student accommodation crisis, to the point were many students were paying up to €400 a week for hotel accommodation. Some could not even get that. What is going to be different this year? Student union leaders believe that we are going to face the same student accommodation crisis this year, as last year. What has the Minister done, and what...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The cheapest student accommodation at UCD is more than €8,000 for the college term. The new student accommodation that is going to be provided at UCD costs €14,000 a year. That is just insanity. It is not acceptable. To be honest, the Government should intervene immediately to ensure that students and their families are not being screwed with that level of rent. It is not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is that rather than the Government making a decision that we have to have the necessary student accommodation to avoid a student accommodation crisis and to make it affordable, the onus is being put on the colleges to provide it. The result is that we are getting accommodation such as that being offered at UCD, which costs €14,000 a year. I made a general suggestion to...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are very small changes. We need to go a lot further. There needs to be a complete change of mindset. Accessing further and higher education should be seen in the same light as primary or secondary education. We want as many people to access further and higher education as possible, and we need to remove all barriers in order to facilitate that. We have the highest fees in Europe....

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe it has gone up slightly, but the vast majority do not get grants. The new student accommodation being built on the UCD campus will cost students €1,400 to rent. Even as a temporary measure, all third level students should get the housing assistance payment, HAP. I do not really like HAP but at least it reduces the cost of rent. That is a temporary measure the Government could...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: For some.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Although the student unions do not have all the figures, I spoke to them this morning 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...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is still a majority.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will check the figures.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that he is putting in place to address student poverty; if he will consider introducing free public transport, investing in ensuring student accommodation is affordable and subsidising IT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36967/22]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on neatly from the previous discussion, student poverty last year was rampant, with accommodation costs being a key element. Public transport costs and all the cost-of-living issues are now going to hit students. What is the Minister going to do about this? Will he consider bringing in free public transport for everybody in higher education? What are we going to do to bring down...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that he is putting in place to address student poverty; if he will consider introducing free public transport and investing in student accommodation to ensure that it is affordable; if he will subsidise IT facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36666/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that the new places he has made available in higher education will be adequate to address the skills shortages right across the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36665/22]

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Watson Killiney Residents Association in my area had a SLAPP taken against it because it sought a judicial review against a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant permission for a strategic housing development by Atlas GP Ltd., a developer owned by Pat Crean of Marlet Property Group. This information is in the public domain and has been widely reported. That case has been taken...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Because of the Government’s failure to address the cost-of-living crisis, the Cost of Living Coalition will hold another protest outside Leinster House next Wednesday before the summer recess and a further protest before the budget on 24 September. If there were not already enough good reasons for those protests, the exceptional needs payment, which the Government has been trumpeting...