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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to respond positively to the requests of an organisation (details supplied) for a package of supports and measures to assist the recovery of those working in music, events and entertainment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55225/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that film producer companies that are in receipt of public funding such as section 481 and Screen Ireland grants which are conditional on the provision of quality employment and training are regularly attending Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court hearings in cases taken by...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Income Inequality (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to address the widespread income and employment insecurity faced by art, culture, film, music and entertainment workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55227/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should look at Coillte's mandate in that regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Against what?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am against carbon tax-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on people. Put it on the corporations.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the data centres.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the data centres.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought the Taoiseach said I must have done a good leaving certificate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that deals with agriculture; and when it is next due to meet. [54562/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the past ten days or so, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of the attempt by Coillte, the State forestry company, to sell off Killegar forest in Enniskerry. Despite-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have done well. I am glad to say I got a call from Coillte yesterday informing me it had decided to abandon the sale. Coillte tried to suggest that the sale was not finalised. I will inform the House that there were for sale signs all around the forest when I went there. Killegar forest was being advertised on an estate agent's website so Coillte had planned to sell it. Intervention...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my voice to the call made by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan on access for all. I commend the Access for All campaign for highlighting the constant problem at DART stations. We have many of them in our area. A key aspect of that is the lack of staff in DART stations to actually assist people when there are difficulties with lifts and to report these difficulties and so on. I also wish to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not be jumping over myself to have a personal or political relationship with Boris Johnson to be honest and I am certainly no fan of his but did the Taoiseach discuss with him the differing strategies on dealing with the Covid pandemic? The one thing that I will give him a little credit for, and on which I think that the Taoiseach should take a leaf from his book, is that in the UK,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, then let us make them free as they are doing in the UK. I am not saying that Boris Johnson has been top of the class in dealing with the pandemic but this is a measure which many scientists and public health people are saying could be part of dealing with Covid. The UK policy of giving them out free to people when they need them, and as many as they need, is a good policy that we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach can throw his response into his answer on this next question. We need antigen tests on public transport.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [54394/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the British Prime Minister. [54393/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my voice to the condolences to Austin Currie's family on his recent passing. It is a sobering thought that the momentous events that propelled him into activism and the civil rights movement that followed in the North started with housing. It is on that question I wish to question the Taoiseach. Today's daft.iefigures are a further indication that the dire situation in unaffordable...