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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Finance (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps the Minister could answer on the issue of other sources of revenue in the area of wealth taxes or whatever in the budget.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2022 (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will make the funds available in Budget 2022 to bring funding for education up to the OECD average of 4.9% of GDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45646/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with a school and an organisation (details supplied) to ensure that the pitches used by the college for generations are kept for use of the college, the local community and sports clubs into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45643/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is planning to take to ensure that spending is at least brought into line with the OECD average of 4.9% of GDP in view of the recent OECD report that ranks Ireland lowest in education spending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45644/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 214. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the practical measures he will make to reward essential workers for the contribution they made to the fight against Covid-19; if these measures will include raising the minimum wage to €15 per hour, a four day working week, more public holidays and statutory holiday entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the funds will be made available in Budget 2022 to ensure that school secretaries receive a public sector pension entitlement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45645/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: During the previous Dáil, I raised the plight of Clonkeen College in Dún Laoghaire on multiple occasions. It is a non-fee paying, publicly funded school run by the Christian Brothers, who have decided to sell off the school playing fields to a private property developer. Since the previous Government would not listen, I ask the current Government to intervene to stop the sale of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do something about it then.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where there is a will there is a way.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [43762/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will return to the question I asked the Taoiseach earlier about Clonkeen College and the plan of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust and the Christian Brothers to sell off its playing pitches. He agreed with me that this is wrong and that it will deprive the school, the ASD unit, local community sports organisations and others who use these fields but he said that there was nothing he can do. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [43761/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people of Berlin have shown the sort of imagination that both the German Government and successive Irish governments distinctly lack when it comes to dealing with the housing crisis. Fed up with and sick of the lack of tenants' rights and completely extortionate rents, the people of Berlin, driven by a campaign from below, have made exactly the right call, which is to expropriate the big...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the extent that the state should actually take control. Why do we not follow the lead-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the people in Berlin have given in a referendum?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [45087/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise an urgent matter. This Friday, several hundred patients will lose their GP in the Monkstown Farm area of Dún Laoghaire because there is a rule, of which I was previously unaware, that GPs are compulsorily retired when they reach the age of 72, even if that retirement is against their will, as it is in this case. They wish to continue serving their patients but are no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apparently, at least six exceptions to this rule have been made around the country, as I found out from the reply to a parliamentary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach intervene to ensure that hundreds of people do not lose their GP because of this ridiculous and arbitrary rule?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just arbitrary.