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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise an urgent, disturbing and upsetting case which has wider ramifications for the State's responsibility to vulnerable children. A mother of a 17-year-old boy in my constituency - I will not mention names, obviously, because it is a sensitive matter - has asked me to raise this issue with the Taoiseach and anyone who will listen. The boy is on the very severe end of the autism...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with children and youth affairs will next meet. [45088/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality met last; and when it is next due to meet. [45089/21]

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As well as the potentially disastrous consequences for CO2 emissions and water usage of constructing further data centres, it is important that ordinary people who may not know much about what data centres are and what value they give, which is little in terms of employment. As Deputy Murphy explained, much of what they do is highly questionable in respect of their contribution to the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [43763/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the method of calculating contributary pensions will change in 2022; if retirees who would achieve a better pension payment under the current averaging system will be allowed to continue having that criteria and method used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47011/21]

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Business Committee for this debate, which has once again highlighted the sickening injustice of the way the Government manipulates the speaking arrangements. The people who asked for this debate get six and a half minutes after the contributions of five or six Government speakers and the Minister, who does not want to hang around to hear from the rest of the parties. This party...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just arbitrary.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise an urgent matter. This Friday, several hundred patients will lose their GP in the Monkstown Farm area of Dún Laoghaire because there is a rule, of which I was previously unaware, that GPs are compulsorily retired when they reach the age of 72, even if that retirement is against their will, as it is in this case. They wish to continue serving their patients but are no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apparently, at least six exceptions to this rule have been made around the country, as I found out from the reply to a parliamentary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach intervene to ensure that hundreds of people do not lose their GP because of this ridiculous and arbitrary rule?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [45087/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [43761/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people of Berlin have shown the sort of imagination that both the German Government and successive Irish governments distinctly lack when it comes to dealing with the housing crisis. Fed up with and sick of the lack of tenants' rights and completely extortionate rents, the people of Berlin, driven by a campaign from below, have made exactly the right call, which is to expropriate the big...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the extent that the state should actually take control. Why do we not follow the lead-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the people in Berlin have given in a referendum?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [43762/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will return to the question I asked the Taoiseach earlier about Clonkeen College and the plan of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust and the Christian Brothers to sell off its playing pitches. He agreed with me that this is wrong and that it will deprive the school, the ASD unit, local community sports organisations and others who use these fields but he said that there was nothing he can do. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: During the previous Dáil, I raised the plight of Clonkeen College in Dún Laoghaire on multiple occasions. It is a non-fee paying, publicly funded school run by the Christian Brothers, who have decided to sell off the school playing fields to a private property developer. Since the previous Government would not listen, I ask the current Government to intervene to stop the sale of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do something about it then.