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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly is. There is a lot of campaigning going on around the area of access. I particularly note the great work of the disability campaigning group, Access for All. It would probably not be surprised at this, but it would be angry. I have been meeting that group for quite a few years. In a way, this is for the Department of Transport, Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann. This...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: There will be a massive improvement. We eagerly await that. On higher education, in the equality section of the report, there are metrics covering students with disabilities, Travellers and quite a number covering women in particular positions and so on, which are important metrics in terms of equality. I suggest one of the biggest issues in higher education in terms of equality is the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept it is a work in progress but it would be important to include that area as it is a critical one in terms of equality because there is a gross inequality in that, as I think Mr. Kinnane will be aware and it has been widely discussed. Another aspect I would note in passing, which is more a matter for the committee to follow up on, is the number of lower-income households who have...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is key for them to identify changes or failures to meet targets. That is all I have to say. I thank the witnesses.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I reiterate that point that it is a great piece of work. One of the things we are looking at in our committee is tax expenditure and all of this is direct expenditure, is it not? When you give the figures for expenditure under each departmental heading, it is the direct allocations and presumably does not take account of the expenditures. Do the witnesses think it would be plausible - it...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a very brief supplementary question. I understand the demarcation lines but there is a certain sort of lack of "joined-up-ness" here. I will give an example from agriculture where we allocate a certain amount of direct funding to a particular programme while simultaneously there are tax expenditures that are trying to achieve certain things in agriculture but they are not looked at...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing forward this Bill, which we support. When in Dublin there are 2,700 Airbnb short-term lets being advertised but only slightly over 400 long-term lets, we know the Government's policy is failing yet again. Despite some efforts being made to limit or regulate this area, they just have not worked. Those who are pursuing profit from property are simply...

Journalists in Conflicts across the World: Statements (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 14 March, Pierre Zakrzewski, an Irish-Ukrainian journalist, was murdered by Putin's murderous forces in his savage war on Ukraine. In the last week or so, we have seen Shireen Abu Akleh, the Palestinian journalist who spoke out fearlessly for 25 years to try to get across the truth of what is being done to the Palestinian people by the apartheid state of Israel, be murdered in a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is not here but he should know that 5,300 taxi vehicle licences will expire next year because of the vehicle age limit. That represents a huge proportion of our taxi fleet. Let us remember that taxi drivers were hammered for two years. They essentially had no income for two years, so they are asking for a further vehicle life extension to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government consider having some discussion on what it has been talking about doing in regard to a vacant property tax, of which we are very much in favour? There has been some discussion on this in the Oireachtas committee, which I understand will publish a report today on the whole issue. It is a matter of extreme urgency that we address the issue of vacant and derelict...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will be-----

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an energy company (details supplied) has increased energy prices by 313% to customers in a multi-unit development in Sandyford, County Dublin who are tied into a single energy company and cannot shop around; if this is allowed; the steps that the customers should take in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Circulars (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide copies of all circulars that have been sent to local authorities in relation to the local infrastructure housing activation fund funding; the affordability requirements for homes built on the land in receipt of this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will raise the issue of the payment that persons receive on the community employment scheme, given that many of these workers are working long hard hours (details supplied) for low pay and are struggling to make ends meet given the high cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26442/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment of needs will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25664/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 717. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is advising applicants that reconstitution and underplanting scheme licence applications will be withdrawn by a defined date in cases in which such applications are associated with ash dieback given that his Department is still discussing a resolution with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates on which his Department was in communication with Coillte regarding the recently announced strategy and intention to afforest 100,000 ha; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26097/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte roads approved in the weekly dashboard, for week ending the 6 May 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26098/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures will be taken as part of budget 2023 to ensure that all financial barriers for those wishing to undertake further education or apprenticeship courses are removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25334/22]