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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the multiple problems faced by trainee psychologists including the difficulty of supporting themselves thought their doctorates, the lack of availability of appropriate and funded placements for educational and counselling trainees, the cost of registering an MSc from abroad and so on; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person who received the fuel allowance while on the jobseeker’s allowance and continued to receive fuel allowance when they went on a community employment scheme will retain their fuel allowance when they transfer from a community employment scheme back onto the jobseeker’s allowance; and if she will make...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Smoking is bad for you and it would be best that people did not smoke and that we did things to discourage them from smoking but punishing people financially for an addiction is not the way forward and is overwhelmingly a regressive form of taxation in that it disproportionately hits the less well-off. I also strongly doubt the Government will, certainly through this mechanism, get to a...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. It is totally inappropriate that a Financial Resolution on the Maritime Area Planning Bill is being taken this evening. It is nothing to do with the budget. It is to do with the Maritime Area Planning Bill, which is a very controversial Bill. It should not have been taken today; it should be taken tomorrow. That would be the best time to do it. The Bill will go to...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will I trust the Government?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will let it pass this time.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The senior Ministers who delivered the budget have scuttled off. We did them the courtesy of listening to their diatribe of propaganda to justify their budget, but they could not do us the courtesy of listening to our response. That says everything about this Government because it does not listen. The people will not be fooled by this budget. Despite all the leaked strategy, all the spin...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to extend the help to buy scheme to include second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49446/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has plans to deal with the growing problem of persons on HAP receiving rent increases in cases in which their HAP payments remain fixed and they are required to make top-up payments but cannot afford them, particularly social welfare recipients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49399/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 474. To ask the Minister for Health if a grant or assistance is available to a medical card holder towards the cost of electricity for a COPD machine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49128/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if a new medical card can be applied for retrospectively for a medical bill in circumstances in which the person applied for the card within eight weeks of the treatment but did not receive the card until after eight weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49412/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have a 19% rate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair trade.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where are they going to go?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I, too, wish to pass on my condolences to the friends and family of Tom Burke. Tom was a bright presence outside the gates of Leinster House and just a very nice person. He will be sadly missed here, although more so, obviously, by his family and friends. I was going to address my question to the Taoiseach. I meant the Tánaiste. The co-Taoiseach, perhaps. People Before Profit is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Corporations earned €200 billion and paid €11 billion in tax. In other words, workers paid 20%, on average, in tax and corporations paid 5%. Why does the Tánaiste defend the corporations instead of looking after working people?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those are scare tactics in order to justify the pitifully low levels of tax these corporations are asked to pay. As even the US Chamber of Commerce and representatives of many of these multinationals have said, the reason they are here is not primarily or exclusively the tax rate. It is to do with the fact that we are an English-speaking country, we are within the European market, we have...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not answered that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the data centres.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, in response to the People Before Profit motion seeking a deferral on carbon taxes to prevent further winter deaths and fuel poverty, the Government reiterated its promise or commitment to continue with increases in the carbon tax. Can the Minister explain how the Government can morally justify how the Taoiseach, the Minister for Finance and the Government have spent weeks...