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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was my answer.

Covid Restrictions Support Scheme Regulations and Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme Regulations: Motions (22 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the very outset of this pandemic I have been arguing for specific supports for those sectors disproportionately hit or indeed just closed down by the impact of the pandemic. I reiterate those calls because while some of the supports the Government has bought in have been very good and have kept businesses alive and wages going into people’s pockets, certain groups have not seen...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the same issue, will this rounded approach to housing extend to trying to do something to stop people from being unjustly evicted? Our treatment of the homeless reached a new low this week where the homeless, in homeless accommodation, are now being evicted. At the Travelodge in Ballymun, families, including a woman with a tumour, and people with kids in school in Ballymun, were told on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the stay and spend relief is only applicable from October 2020 to April 2021 and not from July 2020 as was previously indicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21042/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are going to overcome sectarianism and division and move forward to a united Ireland, which certainly is something I would like to see, we have to be an example in terms of what unification would give to people. I have talked a lot about the importance of having an all-Ireland national health service. Something else that is critical and can help us to unite people is taking a lead on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the evictions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the priorities of the shared island unit of his Department. [17201/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the sickest aspects of our economy is the fact that property speculators and vulture funds can make money and profit from putting people who have done nothing wrong on the street. The Taoiseach and his Government continue to facilitate that, despite desperate pleas from myself and others about their failure to close loopholes in the Residential Tenancies Act 2020 that allow this to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [20474/21]

Mental Health Surge Capacity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Ward for raising this important motion and addressing this important issue. Many have cited the enormous need, mostly unmet, for mental health services and the unacceptable circumstances in which thousands of people are waiting for assessments of need much longer than the three months within which they are supposed to be assessed by right and the three months thereafter,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to increase staffing levels across the public service in key areas such as health, education, higher education and training in which clear deficits in capacity have been revealed in the context of the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20472/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has or is planning to carry out an audit on staffing levels and facilities across the public service in key areas such as health, education, higher education and training in which clear deficits in capacity have been revealed in the context of the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20473/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the safeguards he will put in place in the Dún Laoghaire driver theory test centre when it reopens in the interest of public health (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20378/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 524. To ask the Minister for Finance if businesses impacted by the travel restrictions such as language schools, travel agents and so on the trading of which is unlikely to return to normal when domestic restrictions are lifted will have supports such as the temporary wage subsidy scheme, the Covid restrictions support scheme and so on extended beyond the current deadlines; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 624. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria in respect to the allocation of funding to Sport Ireland in 2020 used to allocate monies to the different sporting organisations; the breakdown of the funding being awarded across major sporting bodies here by Sport Ireland in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18817/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 823. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of new social homes by construction over acquisition commenced in line with the Programme for Government objective and priority to increase social housing stock by over 50,000 over a five-year period through a focus on new builds in each of the 31 local authorities since 1 June 2020 to date in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 894. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the imminent eviction of eight Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Israeli-occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem and due to be replaced with illegal Israeli settlers; the actions that Ireland will be taking to ensure Israel does not carry out this war crime given that these...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 895. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the passport office will reopen as normal; when persons can expect to have their expired passports renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaeltacht Scholarships (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason student teachers at a college (details supplied) are required to pay €350 to attend a Gaeltacht course while student teachers attending State-funded colleges can do so for free; if the Gaeltacht course is compulsory in order to qualify as a teacher; if she will consider removing the cost for all students; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 937. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with a diagnosis of autism that need access to an ASD specific unit given that they are as yet without a confirmed school place for the coming academic year in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18396/21]