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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not working.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have never sanctioned Israel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That approach has not worked so far.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new provisions he is putting in place to ensure affordable rents for students in view of the spiralling rent costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6442/22]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of extra places that would be needed in higher education to allow for an open access model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6439/22]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on discussions with the Minister for Education with regard to the possibilities of an open access model for third level that would remove the need for a traditional leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6438/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to alleviate the economic pressures on students in higher education and in particular his plans to provide affordable student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6440/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all barriers on the path qualification in psychology, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy are removed including the abolition of fees for primary degrees and postgraduate degrees and to ensure that students are paid a living wage for their placements in view of the staffing crisis in CAMHS, early...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte road licences issued on the forestry licensing dashboard in week three of January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5857/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael is claiming the credit for that. Apologies. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil - it does not make much difference in truth. It is the same to us. The idea was to have a State company, rather than leaving it to the private market to produce energy. A publicly owned company was created which operated on a not-for-profit basis. That is what needs to be done. We also need to extend...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. People are facing additional costs to heat their homes. The estimates vary but €800 over the year is a reasonable estimate by bonkers.ie. Against that background, €100 is pathetic and insulting. It is a drop in the ocean and will not cut it. It is good the Government seems to be acknowledging that more needs to be done, as...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Without a shadow of a doubt, the most high-profile redundancy that took place during the Covid-19 period, to which this Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill is a response, was the Debenhams redundancy. Why does this Bill not involve trying to do something to compensate the Debenhams workers for the failure and inadequacy of legislation to protect against the sort of strategic liquidation...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am because it is a redundancy payments Bill. It relates to Covid redundancies. The Debenhams redundancy was a Covid redundancy, where people lost their jobs in the middle of the emergency. The workers lost everything. They did not get any of their entitlements. I am asking whether this Bill addresses that. That is the question. Does the Bill address it? If not, why not? I think the...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the day that is in it, it might be worth paraphrasing Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses when he famously said, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Covid-19 was certainly a nightmare from which we are all trying to awake. One of the great things about Ulysses, of which I am a big fan, is that Joyce takes as his characters the ordinary people, whereas in all...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was next.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Making a united Ireland.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Think about a united Ireland.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There have been many requests, including those I have made, that the Taoiseach's Department take responsibility for an area that crosses many departmental demarcations as a result of which there is no proper integrated and cohesive approach, namely, disability. The Taoiseach has to look at this again. I will give him a simple example. I have raised ACTS with him a few times, the...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach referred earlier to the pension age in the North being increased to 66, which is certainly not a good thing. I would suggest that hiding behind that fact is not an excuse for not returning the pension age to 65. This is a point I have often made to the Taoiseach. Surely if we want to encourage people to be part of a united Ireland, we need to make being part of a united...