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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a learner driver permit application by a person (details supplied) is taking several months to process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63425/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who is in full-time education with an allowance from a relative of €160 per week but has a housing need is entitled to housing assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63424/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options available in the immediate term for persons living in homeless accommodation whose income goes slightly above the income limit for social housing; which is currently resulting in these homeless persons being asked to leave their homeless accommodation but they have no capability on their low incomes to provide a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of strategic housing development applications awaiting a decision by An Bord Pleanála by local authority; the number of strategic housing development applications that have already received a pre-planning opinion from An Bord Pleanála by the deadline of 17 December 2021, by local authority; the number...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of strategic housing development applications in the lifetime of the legislation by local authority; the number of these applications that were refused, granted permission and withdrawn, respectively by local authority; the number that were the subject of a judicial review by local authority; the number of these...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 673. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of correspondence he has had with his Chinese or European counterparts with regard to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2337/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to offer predicted grades for leaving certificate students in 2022 or other measures for exam year students that may compensate for the loss of education they have experienced over the previous two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason many persons who were on the pandemic unemployment payment and being transitioned to the jobseeker’s allowance before 7 December 2021, even though their industry had not returned to pre-pandemic levels and were then unable to return due to the 7 December 2021 restrictions meant their industry would not...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 516 of 14 December 2021, the number of applications that are going to multiple applications and the number going to individuals, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63233/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1588. To ask the Minister for Health when the EU Digital COVID Certificates will be updated to reflect the booster vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1940. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to the Exchequer from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to date of arrangements made with private hospitals and private health providers for use of private hospitals and healthcare capacity to deal with Covid-19 and non-Covid care during the pandemic; if he will provide as much detail as possible in relation to the conditions of these...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I notice the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media coming into the Chamber. As she is present, jobbing musicians, entertainers and performers on the ground have been appealing for a meeting with her to explain the particular difficulties they are facing, including the anomalies, inconsistencies and refusals.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I talked to them this morning and they still felt there was no movement. Many of them are being denied. Whatever the Department is telling the Tánaiste, I tell him they are being refused on spurious grounds around PRSI contributions that they could not possibly show. If their gigs have collapsed for December, they are being asked in for an interview and being told they must...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are telling me there has been no movement.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are none on the EWSS.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the end of the year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The public health measures that have been introduced out of concerns about Omicron, social gathering at Christmas and so on have once again impacted on particular groups of workers and sectors in our society in their ability to work at all or their ability to earn a sustainable living. While the Government has been quite laissez-faire, as has rightly just been referred to in many ways, in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consumer Prices (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he plans to take to curb inflation and the impact it is having on the cost of living for those on low and middle incomes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62402/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consumer Prices (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to deal with the increasing cost of living and the impact this is having on low and middle-income households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62405/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (16 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review the single-parent tax credit given the increases in the cost of living and the disproportionate effect this can have on single-parent families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62403/21]