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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The landslide in Donegal resulting from the construction of a wind farm was a shocking reminder of the Government's failure to take seriously what happens when the development of renewable energy is in the hands of private developers who only care about profit and do not give a hoot about the environment. It was not the first time we had seen that type of environmental damage resulting from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has gone too far in the other direction.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change. [36677/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit. [36676/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems to me that the parliamentary liaison unit remit is to do everything to shut down the voices of questioning from the Opposition. There has essentially been a systematic drive by the Government to do that. The latest example of this is the refusal to allow the Minister for Justice to come to the House to address questions. We also saw this with the change in speaking arrangements....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Future of Media Commission (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Irrespective of the criticisms we may sometimes have of RTÉ, public service broadcasting and having a national broadcaster are important because the alternative is the big, private, for-profit IT companies and the big digital online purveyors of movies, such as Amazon and Netflix, which are making an absolute fortune. If we are to safeguard the future of public service broadcasting and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Future of Media Commission (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the establishment of the Future of Media Commission; and the role his Department will have in supporting the work of the commission. [36675/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to ensure that public land, zoned for housing, will be developed as 100% social and affordable housing in view of the ongoing housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38403/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the upcoming affordable housing scheme; the cost of affordable to buy homes; the eligibility criteria for the homes; the scheme of allocations for cost rental homes; the system for deciding the rents on the homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38401/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the eviction ban until the end of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38399/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Company Registration (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the responsibility the Company Registrations Office has to ensure the information it receives from a company is correct; and the responsibility it has when it is brought to its attention that the address given as the principal registered office does not exist. [38253/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow taxi drivers who have little or no work as a result of the Covid-19 crisis to suspend their licences or to obtain a rebate for the unused period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38249/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has approved the extension of the ten-year rule for the age of vehicle for taxis for another year due to Covid-19; if so, when the extension will be in place; when the NTA is changing its rules, regulations to reflect this extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38803/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that can be taken to ensure a secondary school placement in September 2021 for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38214/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline, in the aftermath of the mother and baby homes legislation, the information that will be handed to Tusla; the information that will be kept by his Department; the records that will be sealed for 30 years; the personal information that will be available to persons who were in mother and baby homes; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) is entitled to the SUSI special grant rate as they have been previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38340/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 776. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are moving house or are in the process of finding and or viewing new accommodation are permitted to travel beyond the 5 km under current level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37823/20]

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Covid-19 has forced us to rethink many of our priorities and understand what is important. Many of those things that we have learned the importance of during Covid-19, and which we should have known before, start with higher education. There are the doctors, the nurses and the scientists we need to cope with a health crisis, the engineers, the architects and the apprentices we need to build...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The CRSS will benefit some in live entertainment and music and that is to be welcomed. The report itself, however, obviously influenced by the campaigning of groups like the Events Industry Alliance and the Event Production Industry Covid-19 Working Group, EPIC, points out that huge numbers of SMEs in the music and live entertainment sector will not qualify for the CRSS because they do not...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I requested the first debate on the impact of Covid on the arts in the House earlier this year. The central point of what I said at the time was that life, without arts, music and culture, would not be worth living. I am glad to find that sentiment has found its way into the title of the Minister's report. However, while we have all these positive proposals, what has actually happened?...