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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 339. To ask the Minister for Finance if companies that operated the TWSS can seek to demand payments from their workforce if their employees were marginally better off in their net take home pay as a result of the way in which the scheme operated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16889/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Waterways (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Inland Waterways Ireland has announced that it plans to sell off the site of the graving dock in Ringsend, Dublin 4; if he will ensure that in the event of the sale proceeding that the price will not fall below the €20 million value that he has placed on the site; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Waterways (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure financial support to develop the graving docks Ringsend, Dublin 4 as a heritage site and that could be used to develop apprenticeships on boat repair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17045/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Waterways (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request Dublin City Council to consider diverting some of the funds that had been earmarked for the white water rafting facility to developing a heritage site and amenity for the local community at the graving docks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17046/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Waterways (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will commission a feasibility study to examine options for the future development of the graving docks Ringsend, Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17047/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 572. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the return of outstanding classes in secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16528/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 576. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the medical basis on which a decision (details supplied) was reached; the length of time considered short-term; the reason a medical condition such as anxiety would be singled out and those suffering from it have their online education withheld if they feel unsafe at school; if her Department consulted with mental health experts or charities...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 797. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria that will apply for the end to the suspension of the visit a family and friend class C visa and the de facto partner of an Irish national visa which have been suspended since March 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16562/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1082. To ask the Minister for Health if the wearing of masks by staff working in the kitchens of restaurants, takeaways and fast food outlets is mandatory; if not, the rationale for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17115/21]

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, line 5, to delete "12 July 2021" and substitute "12 April 2022".

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 9: In page 4, line 9, to delete "12 July 2021" and substitute "12 April 2022".

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No.12 :

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15: In page 4, line 27, to delete "13 July 2021" and substitute "12 April 2022".

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16: In page 4, to delete lines 35 to 39 and substitute the following: "(i) specifies a termination notice that falls at any time during an emergency period, and (ii) cites as reason for the termination any of the grounds listed in section 34 of the Act of 2004.",". I know time is short and we want to vote on this and the issue in section 2. This is a specific...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is talking down the clock.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Like the other Opposition parties, we have a series of amendments, which seek to extend considerably further the protections this Bill proposes to extend only until July. We have gone the furthest in saying they should be extended until April 2021 and I will explain why we think that is right. We also support all the other amendments that go considerably further than the Government. We...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Residential Tenancies Bill is, for the most part, a deception and a fraud. It is an attempt to suggest the Government is trying to protect tenants in the midst of the Covid pandemic when, in reality, apart from a tiny cohort of tenants for whom protections will be extended, literally a few hundred tenants, the Government’s real intention is, as of 5 April, to allow vulture funds...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the pandemic supports available to businesses trading under €50,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16209/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options a person (details supplied) has to renew their stamp 4 spousal visa which is due to expire at the same time as their passport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16215/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the key pillars of climate action, which the Minister talks about but which I do not think he really understands, is the just transition for workers affected by it. Regarding the €15 million the Minister spoke of, let us consider those taxi drivers whose incomes have either been reduced to zero, for the 40% who have remained on the PUP because there is no work out there, or...