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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should make a commitment on that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These people would not be able to afford those houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have lost count of how many times I have raised the issue of reviewing the income thresholds for eligibility for social housing over the last four or five years. Whether it is the last Government or this Government, the stock response is that “it is under review” or “the review will be completed shortly”, and we have been told that for four or five years now....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, will the Taoiseach give me a commitment that homeless families will not be evicted from homeless accommodation because they get a job and try to earn a bit of extra income? Will he give me that commitment now and issue that instruction to local authorities? Second, can I just point out that if they had been housed as they should be, or even got a HAP tenancy, they would not be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is there not a-----

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many minutes do we have?

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will take four each.

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We thought we had more. I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this Bill on this incredibly important subject. I also commend the former Deputy, Ruth Coppinger, who brought forward a Bill with similar objectives in 2018, the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018, which tackled the issue in a slightly different way but had the same objectives. That Bill was passed by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Air Quality (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to arrange supply of ventilation and HEPA filtration equipment to ensure safe air quality standards in every school classroom and staff room; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58055/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the impact of the current Covid-19 surge on outpatient waiting lists; and the way he plans to tackle same. [57806/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A lecturer in UCD told me that much of the modern examination system originated with efforts to populate the civil service in British-controlled colonial China. I do not know if it is true, but it is a structure that is about enforcing certain norms and notions of hierarchy. That is still true of the leaving certificate. There are some dinosaurs in the North or in Britain who might hark...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister be more specific about when the report will be published and when this is going to happen? This cannot be long-fingered. As she said, Covid has highlighted the inadequacies that were there, but it has shone a sharp light on the problems and the unfairness of the leaving certificate. It is unfair to put large numbers of students through the incredible and unnecessary...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a full report on the recent discussions her Department has been having on reform of the leaving certificate; the timeline for changes to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57644/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is our view the leaving certificate should go because it has outlived its usefulness. It is a gatekeeping and streaming exercise which perpetuates inequality and limits or streams access to third level education. The Minister might not agree with all of that but she has committed to some sort of review of the leaving certificate. I want to know the status of that review because,...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be absolutely clear, our amendment will now be an addition. It was not submitted as a counterproposal to the Sinn Féin motion. It is additional to it.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We never submitted an amendment looking to delete anything in the motion. What we did was amend it. I do not understand how it has come out with the word "delete" as part of it.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have often put in changes before and that did not happen. That is not at all what we intended. I do not want anything that implies we were deleting any aspect of the motion because we were not. We were adding to it.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no choice, but I am not very happy about it. We never put the word "delete" into the amendment. I am not happy. You sometimes add and sometimes delete all of it and we did not put the word "delete" in our amendment. That was not in anything we submitted to the Journal Office.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think I had better. I think I have no choice.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What does Deputy Funchion think?