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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know what school they are from but I was going to refer to the young people in the Visitors Gallery as well. I am not sure what year they are in but when they finish school, many of them will be looking to go to higher or further education or do apprenticeships. That would be good for them and also for our society because we need people in construction, medicine, the health...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows our position. We think we should get rid of all fees and all financial barriers. Now is the time for bold moves. We are facing chronic shortages in a number of areas such as construction, education, medicine and almost every area one can imagine. I want to ask about one particular group, though. There is a chronic shortage of psychologists and the result is real...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question is really getting at barriers. By the way, I think we should get rid of all apprenticeship fees for college, for the bit apprentices have to do in college. There is a campaign on that. I was asked by someone doing educational psychology to raise this so I am taking the opportunity.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Vision for Change recommended that we have 190 psychologists in the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. Currently we have 90, less than half of what was recommended more than a decade ago. There is real suffering for very vulnerable children as a result. Then we have people like Áine who wrote to me, and I have received multiple representations, who wants to do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that he intends to introduce to address student poverty and the shortage of affordable student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25333/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The biggest contributor to student poverty is the extortionate cost of accommodation, whether it is private student accommodation built by investors or on-campus accommodation. We are talking well in excess of €1,000 per month in UCD or an even higher amount for some of the newer accommodation. Given that the Minister is giving €144,000 to developers per apartment, is there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The key point is that education is a right, not a privilege. I will go further and say it is now a societal imperative. In other words, every doctor, psychologist, apprentice, arts worker, scientist and engineer we get qualified is making our society better. We have a shortage of all of those people, and many others I am not mentioning, right across the board. It is the State's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but some of that purpose-built accommodation is completely unaffordable-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and we have to do something about that. On the fees front, I will make a point about a graduate entry medicine course that I heard discussed earlier. It is one thing for the Bank of Ireland to remove the loan, but people who we need to qualify as doctors should not have to take out a loan in the amount of €15,000 per year at all. We desperately need the doctors in our health...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will abolish all fees for further and higher education and for apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25332/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will remove the fees for all post-graduate psychology courses and ensure that funding and supports are provided in order that more students are encouraged into this discipline given the chronic shortage of psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25331/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure in Budget 2023 that there are enhanced mental health services across all further and higher education and apprenticeship courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25335/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tomorrow at 1 o'clock, outside the gates of Leinster House, the newly established cost of living coalition, which involves pensioners' groups, students' unions, political parties, trade unionists and so on, will hold a protest over what they believe, and I think they are right, is the Government's failure to address the cost of living crisis, which is crucifying workers, pensioners, students...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will be facilitating a vote on the national maternity hospital tonight. We think the Government's decision to retain influence by a privately owned religious charity in the national maternity hospital is really an insult to the women of Ireland and to all those who suffered in Magdalen laundries and mother and baby homes. It also shows scant regard for the need to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Good Friday Agreement (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the vision for the shared island dialogue in the wake of the Assembly elections. [24775/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not stop evictions?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the new Cabinet subcommittee that is dealing with Ukrainian refugees will next meet. [21863/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If, as we must, we are going to provide refuge for those fleeing the war in Ukraine, we need to do everything we can to relieve pressure on the housing services. A simple measure I suggested to the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he was looking for suggestions a number of weeks ago was to stop evictions, as we did during the Covid-19 emergency. The numbers of...

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan for putting forward the motion. One cannot be too strong in condemning what is an absolutely insane scheme from this Government. It is a demonstration that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and sadly, the Green Party, have reverted to type. They have returned to the utterly disastrous developer-led policies which led to the crash in 2008 that almost destroyed our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if a social care worker employed by TUSLA in a setting (details supplied) is eligible for the pandemic bonus payment having worked full-time from October 2020 to August 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25067/22]