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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The recently established Cost of Living Coalition is calling people out onto the streets on Saturday, 18 June, for a national demonstration and day of protest to demand a comprehensive, urgent and radical package of measures to address the cost-of-living crisis that is absolutely crucifying workers, pensioners, students and people on low and middle incomes. It will be a protest against the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 700. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remedy the removal of a person (details supplied) from services at the National Gender Service, Loughlinstown Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27567/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the increases, if any, that he intends to make to the payment rates per-hectare to participants of the organic farming scheme in each year 2022 to 2027 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28089/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific improvements that he further intends to make to improve farmer participation in the organic farming scheme when it next reopens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28090/22]

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We desperately need more apprentices and we need to make apprenticeships and trades attractive to people in order to address the problems that our society is facing at the moment. Across the board, the lack of skills necessary to solve big social problems is enormous. Most obviously, there is a desperate need for qualified tradespeople, and that means apprentices, to build the houses we...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The ESRI report published today shows the utterly disastrous situation facing low-income households looking for and needing support to get affordable housing. It demonstrates that the Government's failure to provide the social housing necessary for low-income families and to have housing assistance payment, HAP, limits that are even close to the extortionate rents being charged out there, as...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the delays in assessments of need and the subsequent roll-out of services to children with developmental delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26977/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankie is two. His parents, very worried, came into my office this week because a paediatrician and their own observation established that Frankie has very serious developmental delays, is non-verbal and is showing all the signs of severe autism. They got a letter stating he would be assessed within the legally required time, and then they got a phone call shortly afterwards from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly will refer it to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. I have also been talking to one of the barristers who is taking many of these cases and the situation is very bad. This story suggests the establishment of the disability network teams is not making any difference; it is just another layer. We have assessments of need, disability network teams, CAMHS and NEPS. It is all...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A preliminary assessment is not an assessment of need. That is the point and that is what the judge ruled on. It was a way of appearing to tick the box of assessment without actually giving the assessment necessary or the diagnosis. I see the Minister shaking his head. Why do Frankie's parents get a letter stating they will get their assessment by May? This is a tick box the law requires...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Scientific Research (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Health the way that he plans to address the almost 400 medical laboratory scientist staff vacancies and to make these posts more attractive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26976/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 161. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to diversify agriculture in view of the war in Ukraine and the impact that this will have on food supplies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26975/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on his plans to develop Killegar forest as an amenity and biodiversity forest after the decision in 2021 not to sell this forest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26974/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 350. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that an assessment of needs for a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27006/22]

Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit is extremely proud to present this motion in support of medical laboratory scientists. I commend them for taking the action they did not want to take, but felt compelled to take, in order to force the Government to listen to them and engage with them. The only reason we are here debating this is not because of People Before Profit or anybody else, it is because the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Income Inequality (25 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The rich in this country pay more tax because they have vastly more wealth. It is not because it is a particularly progressive system but because there is a massive inequality in the distribution of wealth and income. The two things are related. There is a completely bogus argument or spin from officials that this proves we have a progressive tax system. It does not prove that at all....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Income Inequality (25 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That is a fact that is revealed yet again, as it is year after year, in the Oxfam report. It is not just a left-wing slogan; it is a fact. While the cost of living is crucifying and impoverishing tens of millions of people across the world, the world's billionaires and multimillionaires are getting richer by the day. The two things are directly...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2021: Discussion (25 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the officials from the Department for a very good and interesting report. There is an awful lot of detail to look at but it is very helpful. It is a big reform to now have a document like this containing this much detail and telling us whether the allocation of money made in a budget has achieved what was set out as the rationale for that allocation. This is a lot more information...