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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference. [55798/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a progress report on the Programme for Government. [55795/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to immediately re-establish contact tracing in Covid-19 cases in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57333/21]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will work with a school and trust (details supplied) to ensure that the pitches traditionally used by the school remain available to both the school and the community into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57332/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to arrange weekly mass-testing for Covid-19 across school settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57329/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the school building programme including the number of schools without permanent sites, without permanent buildings and also without even a temporary site; her plans to address these very serious shortfalls; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57331/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full report on the recent discussions that her Department has been having in relation to reform of the leaving certificate; the timeline for changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57330/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 245. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason occupational therapists and physiotherapists working in front-line cancer services who require a fresh uniform on a daily basis and are required to both supply and launder their own uniform receive a tax credit of only €217 while their nursing colleagues (details supplied) receive a higher amount; if he plans to increase the tax credits...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 347. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the catchment area for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57068/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 472. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has plans to increase staff levels at the Burgh Quay Registration Office to help speed up appointments for persons that have been trying for months to get an appointment for a stamp 4 visa; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57168/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is nominally committed to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. In that regard I raise the plight of Accessible Community Transport Southside, which is a door-to-door transport service in the south Dublin area catering for 1,620 registered travel members, most of whom are wheelchair users or have severe mobility...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Great. Happy days for a Thursday.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will open with an appeal to the Minister, and I hope his answer will be "Yes". We had a deadline of 11 a.m. today to submit amendments, before the Bill had even passed Second Stage. We were able to table quite a few amendments, but this is not fair. I have raised this at the Business Committee. We need more time to put forward amendments following a debate. Having listened to the...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, and I will get on to the Bill, but we have to learn the lessons from what we did wrong in order to get this Bill right. That is my point, because the Government is still trotting out that the problem, and the reason we do not have the housing we need to address the housing crisis and affordability, is all these terrible objectors. I am still hearing that, and it is just not true. The...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. I knew the LDA would not deliver and now it is not delivering.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister said they would be on site by the end of this year. They will not be on site.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will tell the Minister what my answer is. The private developers that successive Governments have insisted must in some way be involved in this process could not bear it if there was a large amount of housing in my area built at affordable prices of, for example, €200,000 because it would be very hard for them to sell stuff up the road for €400,000 if that were happening on...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----statements showing that they will comply with specific local objectives, SLOs, in development plans. Is the Minister saying that is in the Bill?

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is if we have a Committee Stage.