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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to abolish third level registration fees in view of the fact that many students will not be attending lectures as normal, will have extra IT costs due to online learning and will find it more difficult to find work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22648/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By any standard, the students who enter higher education in 2020 will have a very greatly diminished student experience. Against that background, it is completely unjustifiable to charge the highest student contribution fee in Europe. It is completely unjustifiable to charge students anything at all but to charge them €3,000 a year when they have no ability to get part-time work,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice, support and guidelines in relation to school reopening that have been established for parents that have serious underlying conditions that would make them at high risk of becoming seriously ill from Covid-19 and that are concerned whether or not it is safe in this context to send their children back to school; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when planning permission will be submitted for the new Dún Laoghaire Educate Together; the timeline she envisages for this school to be ready; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23005/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 202. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for parents of children that are sent home from school as a result of Covid-19 and that therefore have to miss work to care for them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23006/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports in place for persons self-isolating or awaiting results from a Covid-19 test and have to miss work as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23007/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the contributors. I very much welcome the part of the Law Society's submission which suggests action should be taken to accelerate the end of direct provision and the suggestion in terms of ensuring the resources necessary for social distancing in overcrowded in housing conditions. That is very positive. Following everything that has been said about confusion over legal...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With regard to SI 326 of 2020, which deals with issues such as the number of people gathering in private dwellings, does the Law Society of Ireland believe there is, at least, a question mark over the legality or the constitutionally of these kinds of provisions?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Am I out of time?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Legislative Framework Underpinning the State's Response (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My main question refers back to the issue of the right to protest. However, I wish to say in passing that we should be careful about the use of the term "common sense". The great Italian Marxist intellectual, Antonio Gramsci, pointed out that there is a big difference between good sense and common sense. It was common sense at one time that the world was flat but good sense said it was...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raised the problem I have with Questions on Promised Legislation being taken off the Dáil schedule on the Order of Business. While the Government might not have a legislative programme, there is a programme for Government, which contains commitments regarding various legislation, some of which has been rightly described by Deputy McDonald as "off the wall". We need answers to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The protocol and general division deals with relations with the religious bodies. I appeal to the Taoiseach, through this division, to engage urgently with the Sisters of Charity and the Catholic Church generally on a scandal in the St. Mary's centre, a nursing home that also provides assisted living housing for people with blindness, visual impairment and disability. In a Debenhams-style,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know the Taoiseach will not be as explicit as I might be about Trump but I am asking the Department of the Taoiseach to be careful not to inadvertently offer any public relations opportunities to Donald Trump between now and November. That is what I am urging because he is a danger to the whole world. Whatever I may think about Biden, this guy is a threat to democracy. On Palestine, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach his plans for State visits. [22650/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policy Functions (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From a foreign policy point of view, I would like the Taoiseach's assurance that this Government, and all parties in this House, will do absolutely nothing between now and November to facilitate, encourage or promote assistance to Donald Trump's campaign to return to the White House. I think this is a priority. Under normal circumstances, one might say we have to maintain friendly...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Protecting public health is a priority but we have to face the fact there is a shocking contradiction. I raised this at the Covid committee so I am not grandstanding. We are spending approximately 50 times more on ensuring adherence to public health guidelines per Deputy than we are spending per pupil in school. That is shocking. The money given to schools to ensure physical distancing is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government did not respond to the point on additional time, above and beyond that associated with the manipulation of the speaking order executed at the end of summer term.