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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it makes sense to maintain financial or other barriers to accessing all levels of further and higher education and that all such barriers should be removed including the leaving certificate given the significant skills shortages in a range of areas such as health, mental health, construction, education and others; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on new plans for training and apprenticeship places in all trades that are needed to ramp up the supply of housing across the country; the role that local authorities might play in this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12871/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of his plans to support and subsidise further education students to ensure that poverty does not deter them from continuing their education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12874/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the current plans for student accommodation are providing affordable accommodation for third-level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12875/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Eleanor is 70 years old, is blind and lives in St. Mary's Centre - Telford - Merrion Road houses and apartments. It is the same site she lived in as a child in the St. Mary's asylum for blind girls and women, an institution named in the Ryan report and in the Residential Institutions Redress Act. As a result of a tactical liquidation by the Sisters of Charity, the institution to which we...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the selection criteria for activation programs for social welfare claimants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12204/22]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the point.

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amnesty International wants apartheid brought into that - additionally.

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Brady and I requested at the Business Committee that we would have this debate on Amnesty International’s utterly damning report that Israel is a state that is operating a system of apartheid and that in doing so it is committing crimes against humanity. It called for sanctions to ensure that inhumane and inhuman system is dismantled. We called for this debate prior to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a lot of money to be made.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He was good on planning.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ideally, yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But you can privatise it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will we be paying market prices?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is going to be like the gold rush.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That it be publicly owned.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How strange.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Wait until October.