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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since we agreed the Order of Business last week we have had the really shocking announcement of the Government's bloody-minded insistence on going back to a traditional leaving certificate, which ignores the clear call of leaving certificate students for an alternative. Before that decision is finalised we need to have a serious discussion in this House, because there are alternatives. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and stressful leaving certificate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach allow for a debate on the leaving certificate and the options and alternatives for students?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Places (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 42 new schools planned for 2019 to 2022 under the online patronage preference system that have permanent sites and buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4812/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will now consider implementing the call by a union (details supplied) for open access to third-level and getting rid of the traditional leaving certificate once and for all; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4813/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options a taxi driver has to renew their licence in cases in which they cannot get an answer to emails or phone calls to the National Driver Licence Service for over two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5036/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a report on the online patronage process system that was opened in 2018 to decide 42 new schools to include name of school and catchment area, type of patronage of each school; if enrolment has opened on the schools; if the schools have temporary sites or permanent sites or both identified; the stage the building of these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for a building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4856/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full report on all the actions that have been taken to identify a temporary and a permanent site for a school (details supplied) including efforts to purchase or lease a site as well as using any existing site owned by her Department with a list of all the sites that were looked at; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether all lectures should be held on campus including Maynooth University as opposed to online given that pubs, restaurants, football matches, cinema and so on are all back to full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5041/22]

Report on Bogus Self-Employment: Motion (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well done to the committee for producing this document on the important issue of bogus self-employment. The first introduction that Deputy Collins and I got to this issue was on picket lines outside building sites on many a cold morning. Some of the first of those were probably more than decade ago, perhaps 15 years ago. It is scary to think about how long ago some of those pickets took...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We certainly need radical reform of further and higher education. Therefore, insofar as the Bill states as its objective a desire to improve the quality of further and higher education, one could not quibble much with its aspirations. It aims to do the following: promote the interests of students; advance equality, diversity and inclusion; achieve excellence in teaching, learning, etc.; and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has consistently defended the role of big property investment funds by saying that they could contribute to addressing the housing crisis and delivering the famous supply. Last week, a crowd called Occu, acting on behalf of a group called Haliday, advertised build-to-rent apartments. These are two blocks, Cualanor, in Dún Laoghaire. One young woman I know, who is facing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who is the Minister kidding? NATO is not some sort of protective entity. Its rationale, if it ever had any, disappeared at the end of the Cold War. At that time, people like James Baker, Secretary of State of the US, said that there would not be an eastward expansion. I reiterate that I believe Mr. Putin is thug. He is dangerous. He has done horrendous things in Chechnya and Kazakhstan....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to increase European Union military spending following the recent discussions at a meeting of European Union foreign ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3929/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if proposals from NATO for increased European Union military spending was discussed at a recent meeting of European Union foreign ministers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3928/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is apparently very concerned about the Chief of Staff meeting with the Russian ambassador. I wonder would he be as concerned if he met with the US ambassador or the head of NATO. I say that because I am concerned that the Minister attended a conference - maybe he will confirm this - in Brest, France, this month with EU foreign ministers, where he discussed the further project...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This country is supposed to be neutral. That is, frankly, laughable, when you consider we have allowed Shannon Airport to be used again and again by the US military to prosecute brutal, murderous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I want to know what neutrality means when the Minister goes to a conference in Brest where we discuss the French project, which is a major European powers project to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Common Foreign and Security Policy (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a very strange definition of neutral. Yesterday, the Minister expressed concern because the Chief of Staff met the Russian ambassador. To me, neutral would mean that he would express similar concern if the Chief of Staff met the US ambassador or the head of NATO or at the fact that leading powers inside the European Union are looking for and, indeed, have achieved closer integration...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the ongoing war in Yemen and the humanitarian crisis with his counterparts across Europe; if consideration has been given to the imposing sanctions on Saudi Arabia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3926/22]