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

Richard Boyd Barrett: When are we going to get the results of the review? Will all those people thrown off the housing lists over the past couple of years get their time back?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Two weeks ago Amnesty International produced a devastating report rightly condemning the state of Israel for the crime of apartheid. I and others have asked the Whip that we would have a debate in this House about that report. I note that the Ceann Comhairle and Deputy Carroll MacNeill will hold a briefing with the Israeli Ambassador this week. There is no doubt but that the ambassador...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we have the debate next week?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: But if we could have the debate-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will now consider abolishing the universal social charge and replacing it with a high-income social charge given the very severe impact of inflation and the rising cost of living, which is disproportionately impacting on low- and middle-income workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9672/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clearly establish, through guidelines or in legislation, that film producer companies in receipt of section 481 film tax relief must take direct responsibility as the employers for all those working on section 481 supported film productions and end the situation in which they are denying this employer responsibility by hiding behind short-lived...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Inflation Rate (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that while inflation and the cost of living increases currently taking place are severely impacting on ordinary workers and households, corporate profits continue to rise as they have done throughout the Covid-19 pandemic and over the last decade; his further views on whether new tax measures are needed to ensure that those that are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there is a Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland grant for lighting available for schools to switch to more carbon-friendly LED lighting; if not, if such a grant is planned for the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9538/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details of the model for the certificate history essays for this year; the way it differs from last year's model and the traditional leaving certificate model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9101/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the request from a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9316/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 520. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures that are in place for those reaching 65 years of age who should qualify for the over-65s benefit payment but do not satisfy the PRSI contribution criteria as a direct result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the loss of income; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 664. To ask the Minister for Health when free general practitioner care will be extended to six- and seven-year-olds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9052/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Amnesty International (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chair and committee. Most of all, I thank Amnesty International for what is an excellent report and one that has the most profound implications for anybody who accepts, which I believe they should, its findings and conclusions. It is an amazing thing to have, in such a forensic way, detailed the instances of oppression, discrimination and injustice that have been visited on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Amnesty International (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a brief supplementary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Israel's Apartheid against Palestinians: Amnesty International (22 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked one question that was not answered, although I very much appreciate all the answers that were given. I asked whether the apartheid system that has been identified by Amnesty International as being operated by Israel will lead us to the same conclusions as we eventually took in dealing with apartheid in South Africa? The sanctions being called for should be of the same sort as those...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all know the urgency of retrofitting homes that are badly insulated to protect the climate and lift the financial burden being imposed on families by rising energy costs. As usual with Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and, most sadly, the Green Party, the way the scheme is designed means it is, once again, a scheme where the suffering of the poor will subsidise improvements in the lifestyles...

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said it at the end. Tax the-----

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is important legislation. Insofar as it seeks to improve the whistleblower regime, its intentions seem laudable enough. The provisions seeking to include volunteers, shareholders, those in administrative management or supervisory bodies, and those who have a work-based relationship that is yet to begin or who are involved in a recruitment process, all seem good. The establishment of...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just reading over the debate in January 2003 in the Oireachtas in advance of the Gulf War when then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Brian Cowen, got up and defended what we now know to be an absolute pack of lies told by the US Government, US military intelligence, the British Government and British military intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that did not exist. Brian...