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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was legally challenged.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister was supposed to sign off -----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He could have done so before. He was supposed to sign-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He was supposed to sign off in the summer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A sustainable economy as referred to in the strategy requires at the very least that the earnings of workers keep pace with inflation. With inflation running at approximately 5%, many people are limited to 1% pay increases and some are getting nothing. Workers are in effect taking a pay cut at present. I want to know what the Taoiseach will do about it. I will ask him very specifically...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ireland's provision of refuge places for women who have been victims of domestic violence is hopelessly inadequate. We signed the Istanbul Convention in 2015. Adherence to that convention means we should have 498 refuge places throughout the country. We only have 143. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown has no refuge places at all. A report produced this week suggested that, this year alone,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he plans to respond to the recent EPA Report on Waste 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61540/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Process (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the involvement he or his Department has had in the development of planned legislation in relation to marine protected areas; his views on the progress of maritime planning in the absence of these protected areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61541/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a county council must erect site notices, display pending documents and applications on their websites for section 254 licences and allow observations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61313/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason very few of the 467 teachers on secondment that would be available for substitute work have become available to schools (details supplied); if these teachers have been deployed temporarily to the substitute panels across the country; if not, if she will ensure they are added to the substitute panel and that this panel is made...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the decision of the patron body of a school (details supplied) to disband the board and put a single individual in charge, despite the fact that four persons were willing to serve on the board; if she has requested an explanation for this decision; if she will request the patron body to restore the board with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the approximately 1,000 appointments being made available each week at the immigration services at Burgh Quay are all being made available for persons on the appointment booking system; if not, if some appointments are taken up by institutions that are looking to process multiple applications; if so, the number that are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 470 of 23 November 2021, and in view of remarks made by the Taoiseach in Dáil Éireann on 8 December 2021 (details supplied) the international issues that are causing delays at the INIS office, Burgh Quay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61693/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (9 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the mandate of Coillte needs to be changed in view of the climate and biodiversity emergency and the critical role of afforestation in addressing both of these crises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60848/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (9 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the procedures and protocols in place between his Department and Coillte in relation to the sale of Coillte lands and forests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (9 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are programmes available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60915/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the way a person (details supplied) can get a booster vaccine administered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61102/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are getting a right tour here.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is saying he is sort of sympathetic to the issues raised but all we are being offered in the Bill is that, once an opinion has been given following the meeting, the public will be aware of that opinion. Across the board here everybody is saying it would be better to get communities in at the ground floor on these large-scale projects. I could not understand why our amendment is...