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Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The world is disgusted and revolted at what Vladimir Putin is doing, his bloody invasion and the imperialist logic behind it. Rightly, people's hearts go out to the people of Ukraine and they want to show all the solidarity they can. The best hope is that the resistance of the Ukrainian people, alongside the opposition of the Russian people to this...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Healthcare workers put themselves on the front line for all of us during the two years, and more, of the pandemic. They are now overrun again. There are record numbers on hospital trolleys and further surges in Covid. On 19 January the Tánaiste proposed that €1,000 would be given to each healthcare worker. This week, I had several representations from healthcare workers to say...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The world is rightly expressing its utter outrage and revulsion at the despotism and warmongering of Vladimir Putin in Ukraine. I have asked at the Business Committee for the Government to facilitate a debate as a matter of urgency on a crisis every bit as horrific, involving Saudi Arabia and Yemen, where the UN recently reported there are now 13 million people on the brink of starvation....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she will take in relation to the recent review of pension age that recommended not moving the pension age to the 67th year; and if she will further consider returning the pension age to 65 years in line with many countries across Europe; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14564/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will rectify the situation in which those on pandemic unemployment payments over the course of the pandemic do not now have the necessary PRSI contributions to cover regular dental and optician visits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14563/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Civil Service travel rates will be reviewed given rising inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14552/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a plan has been made for the sale or repurpose of the Dalkey and Kill o' the Grange Garda stations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans and the timeline for the review of the HAP limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 343. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions he has had on, and the timeline he has put in place for, the promised review of the social housing income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14593/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the programmes or funding in place for local authorities to acquire homes in order to prevent homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14594/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Properties (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 689. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if progress has been made identifying a location for the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown domestic violence refuge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14611/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 953. To ask the Minister for Health the best route for counselling services to volunteer aid to Ukrainian refugees and to hire incoming skilled workers in this field; if assistance is available to them in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the plans for Killegar forest in the wake of the decision not to sell it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14595/22]

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Considering the crippling increases people are seeing in the prices of petrol, diesel and, more generally, fuel and energy, the proposed measures are fairly pathetic. Taxi drivers, about whom I have talked to the Minister many times and who got very little during Covid, are a good example of how we are just going out of the Covid frying pan into the Ukrainian war fire, with its associated...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will be meeting with European leaders in Versailles to discuss the impact, including the economic impacts, of the war in Ukraine.  Many people in Europe quietly want to use the war in Ukraine to boost up military spending and make our relationship to NATO a closer one and yet the Taoiseach uses excuses about Europe to say he can do nothing about rising fuel and energy costs...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly what it is doing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been pushing to do this and now it is using the war as an excuse to do it again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We sell arms to some of these countries.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been protesting about Putin long before the Taoiseach.  Our comrades are anti-war protestors in Putin’s prisons at the moment.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (9 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach joking me?