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- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [4700/22]
- Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The north Kerry child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, scandal brought to light a much longer-term scandal of the over-medication of young people compensating for the chronic lack of staffing and resources in our mental health services. I want to ask particularly about the utter lack of community psychology and primary care psychology. One aspect of this, and I have been...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This Friday, in the District Court beside the Four Courts, five households - families and individuals - will taste the very bitter fruits of this Government's failure to protect tenants from ruthless vulture funds and against no-fault evictions and to offer them alternatives when they are faced with homelessness, either in terms of social housing or private rental accommodation that they...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of the tenants, I invite the Taoiseach, members of Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, the Labour Party and anyone else who can to get down to the courts to support those tenants. There will be a solidarity rally on Friday. None of the things the Taoiseach has just mentioned would protect these tenants. The tenancies of indefinite duration still allow a vulture fund to evict...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is poor comfort for decent tenants being evicted.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is poor comfort.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Constitution includes the common good.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I try to avoid masochism myself.
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Ward and Daly for their timely and good motion to address the scandal that arose from, but is in no way limited to, what happened in CAMHS in Kerry. As Deputy Gino Kenny said, we have tabled an amendment that does not take anything from the motion but adds a few additional refinements. Specifically, it sets out that the review of CAMHS has to be independent, as Deputy Kenny...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The leaving certificate should be scrapped. It was never a fair exam. It always discriminated against those with special needs and those from disadvantaged areas and all of that has been compounded and made worse in the teeth of a pandemic. Will the Government take the bold step now, which could get us out of this mess, and say that everybody should be able to study the higher or further...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Court on Friday.
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The law allows this one.
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sale by a vulture fund.
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4699/22]
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This Friday in the District Court, behind the Four Courts, five individuals and families - working-class people - are going to pay the price for the Taoiseach’s failure to address the housing crisis. The case of the St. Helen’s Court apartment complex, where a vulture fund is going to evict the families, really tells the story of this housing crisis. They have always played...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a similar issue of rewarding workers who played a critical role during Covid, obviously we all accept and welcome the announcement that front-line workers are to get a pandemic bonus, although it should be extended to carers, as has been discussed. There is no doubt that group were on the front line of the Covid response. What does the Taoiseach have to say, if he is not willing to...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet.. [2221/22]
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will meet next. [4698/22]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach agreed to a debate on the leaving certificate? I want clarity on that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need a specific discussion on this.