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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 380. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if sites have already been examined by her Department for a permanent building and deemed inappropriate for a school (details supplied); if so, the location of the sites; the details of the issues with them that deemed them inappropriate; the primary, non-Covid related barrier preventing a new school location being confirmed; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the general location for all sites under consideration for the permanent relocation of a school (details supplied); if the sites are within the community of Blackrock Booterstown in view of the fact that the community of same voted for the patronage of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44219/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 455. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if counselling and support services will be available to all of those who will potentially be impacted by the publication of the mother and baby homes report on 11 January 2021; if it will be ensured that these services are advertised widely and that those affected will be directly contacted with details of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 460. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a no-detriment, no-disadvantage policy will be established in all third level institutions with regard to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; if no student will disadvantaged educationally, mentally or financially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44220/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Institutions (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has spoken to the governing authority of University College Dublin on an issue (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44221/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will work with third level institutions to ensure that persons pursuing a degree in art and design are not subject to materials levies for materials that are necessary for their degree work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44225/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 497. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to extend the pay restoration that has commenced for 50 section 39 organisations to the remaining 250 similar organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44289/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ministerial Meetings (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 515. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to meet with a person (details supplied) to address a matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44156/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 604. To ask the Minister for Health the reason vulnerable persons under 70 years of age with underlining conditions such as leukaemia that fall into the HSE defined very high risk from Covid-19 are not in the same group as the over 70s for the roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44507/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the status of discussions and or meetings and or correspondence he has had with an organisation (details supplied) with regards to its announcement that it will be withdrawing from its disability and mental health services in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44222/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 523. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he has to ensure that residents that were in a facility (details supplied) are housed appropriately after the closure of the facility on Merrion Road, Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44223/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 524. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a non-EU national junior doctor does not have the same access to training programmes as EU junior doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44226/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 528. To ask the Minister for Health if sufficient mental health supports will be put in place in advance of the publication of the report of the commission of inquiry to include all adoptees and survivors and not just those who could participate in the commission's inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44239/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 594. To ask the Minister for Health if the business practice of cold-calling in person to persons' homes is permitted during Covid-19 restrictions; if it is provided for within the levels for the plan for living with Covid-19; if so, the levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44473/20]

Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As with many of the things we are dealing with in this final week - we had discussions about the complexity of the previous Bill and the multiple issues introduced, some of them at the last minute - it is worth noting that this Bill deals with a significant matter relating to the financial vehicles through which the Irish and global super-rich get even richer. This very significant Bill...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nor your good self.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will try to be brief because I am conscious there are many other amendments coming up on other important aspects of this Bill. I ask for a serious response from the Minister on the issue of public meetings. I support amendments Nos. 5 and 6. There are good suggestions in both amendments and they revolve around the importance of public meetings and the involvement of the public in the...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. Here we are ad idemin warning the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien - I am being deadly serious about this - about something that the great revolutionary and philosopher, Karl Marx, called "alienation". It is a very real thing. If the Minister wants to know the modern definition of "alienation" in the midst of Covid, it is "If I have to attend another Zoom meeting, I'll scream."...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They discuss plans to rezone lands. They also need to acquaint people with the process, which many people do not understand. There is a huge deficit of participation in these things. On many occasions l have seen last-minute proposals for rezoning of land, sometimes from members of the Minister's party, where there has been no consultation. The public often alert us to such moves. During...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Five minutes.