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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 697. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that the HSE recently advertised for unpaid voluntary assistant psychology posts involving a full range of professional duties for 20 hours per week; the way in which young persons trying to progress and gain experience in their training as psychologists could be expected to perform unpaid work for the HSE and at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 758. To ask the Minister for Health the dental practices in Dublin 18 that accept medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24022/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 759. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider providing free medical cards for persons with epilepsy during the period in which they are disallowed from driving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24023/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste is acting as if the rampage and plunder by cuckoo and vulture funds and investment vehicles - terms are too polite; they should all just be called bloodsuckers - is some sort of isolated incident or inadvertent mistake that the Government is going to rectify. Why does he not admit the truth? When the Tánaiste was Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the Fine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What happened ten years ago is important because some of us stood up in this House at the time and begged the then Government not to sell off the NAMA portfolio but instead to use it for social and affordable housing. Had the then Government listened, we would not have the crisis we face now. I am appealing to the Government not to do the same with the Land Development Agency. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not on public land.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not on public land.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They would be generating revenue for the State.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach get on to the Minister about it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The violent scenes in the North over recent weeks were a worrying reminder of how the institutionalisation of sectarianism can lead to these sectarian outbursts. If we are to challenge that and achieve the unity of this island and the end of partition, and undermine the conscious stirring-up of sectarianism by forces such as the Democratic Unionist Party, DUP, we have to offer a better...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should answer the question raised by Deputy Barry, and earlier by Deputy Paul Murphy, on chosen representatives of ESB technicians being recognised by the ESB, a semi-State body, and on respecting the right of people to choose their own representatives in a legitimate dispute about outsourcing. The Taoiseach should intervene in this regard as a matter of urgency. I want to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the relevant project?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the legacy project?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet.. [21777/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change last met; and when it will next meet. [20475/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Wildlife Trust, IWT, recently issued a very stark warning about the biodiversity crisis, which is often forgotten in the context of the equally urgent crisis of climate change. It is very important for us to remember that biodiversity collapse could spell the end of our ability to live on this planet. One of the areas the IWT pointed to was the critical importance of the marine...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing forward the motion. Anything that gives us an opportunity to highlight the housing crisis and the plight of renters is very welcome. I support overwhelmingly the thrust of the motion. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and Deputy Devlin's attempts to defend the Government's position and their...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [23265/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with transport will next meet. [23266/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (5 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if an organisation (details supplied) and its associated sports received 40% of all public sports funding in 2020 from Sport Ireland; if there is only 3% participation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22827/21]