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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on the Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [18563/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is remarkable news that the Cabinet committee on housing did not meet in advance of the significant and hugely retrograde decision, made in the Bill now passing through the Dáil, to open the door for a resumption of evictions into homelessness in the middle of a pandemic. I find that extraordinary. I do not know if the Government does not understand or, worse, does understand the...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. This is the same Bill I introduced to the Dáil in 2017, and at that time it was narrowly defeated. It is worth saying that although Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael voted against...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [18562/20]

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did send the details. I emailed the Minister last week. If this Bill goes through, the vulture fund that has been trying for three years to evict those tenants will succeed in evicting ten households, including families who have paid their rent for years and have never missed the rent. They are working people who will be evicted into homelessness as a result of this Bill's passing which...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I intend to share time with Deputies Bríd Smith, Mick Barry and Paul Murphy, who I hope will be here shortly.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The slithering, sliding and U-turns of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party in particular have begun in earnest with this Bill. This is a shameful betrayal of tenants that opens the door to a new wave of evictions into homelessness in the midst of a pandemic. It allows for the unthinkable. We were warned yet again this morning on national radio by Mr. David Nabarro of the World Health...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for creating a green list for travelling during Covid-19 in view of the fact the clear advice from the NPHET is to discourage all foreign travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18569/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the discussions and or meetings he had with the airline industry with regard to the development of a green list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18566/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: National Public Health Emergency Team (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his discussions and deliberations with the NPHET with regard to the development of the green list; the reason for going against this advice; if he requested the expert advice that the NPHET had received from the expert advisory group in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18565/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is considering changes to employment permits in view of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18949/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will grant a work permit to a person (details supplied) in view of their frontline role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18950/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is a system by which a person that has amassed driver lessons or training hours in another country within the EU or France can have that time transferred to essential driver training hours here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18852/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 306. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when film shoots and sets are permitted to resume work; if it will be 10 August 2020; if not, when; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18853/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the number of special needs assistants upon the return to school in September 2020 in view of the fact that the system of shared access of children with additional needs to an SNA, sometimes across several classrooms, will guarantee an increased transmission rate of Covid-19 specifically within a vulnerable group of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers, primary and secondary, respectively on secondment to the Professional Development Service for Teachers: if these teachers are to be redeployed back to education order to support social distancing and safe return to school; if so, the number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18849/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 530. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the curriculum changes being planned for the children and young persons of primary and secondary schools; if the Professional Development Service for Teachers is leading these plans; if not, the person or body responsible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18850/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the adjustment of grades by her Department for the leaving certificate calculated grades results include adjusting grades on the basis of gender and socio-economic demographics of students, schools, location, DEIS status or other considerations; if so, the methodology involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18851/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 807. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if spousal visas are being issued for the wives and husbands of persons with Irish citizenship; if not, the reason for not doing so; if there are limitations caused by Covid-19 to the issuing of spousal visas; if so, the limitations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18854/20]