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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why hold back?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What of the restaurants, bars and hospitals?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying this could help get us out of this.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the Simon Communities of Ireland on this extremely important Bill. Last week, a man came to my clinic with an eviction date in a couple of weeks. He broke down crying in front of me because he thought he and his family would be out on the street. He was absolutely racked with terror at that possibility. This happens week in, week out. This man had done nothing wrong. He had...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [58592/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As mentioned earlier, a social housing development which was going to deliver 34 social houses and eight affordable-to-buy houses in a project between an approved housing body and a local co-operative, facilitated by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, has collapsed because the preferred tenderer has pulled out, citing hyperinflation in the construction sector. These are badly needed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to do about it though?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent discussions with the President of the United States. [60201/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Both the US and the EU have urged the generals in Sudan to continue on the path to democracy, particularly in the face of the recent coup by General al-Barhan and Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo, a former leader of the Janjaweed who committed atrocities in Darfur. They have released some of the Government Ministers that they imprisoned but there has been a very significant crackdown on civil society,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent exchange with the UK Prime Minister. [60202/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach and the UK Prime Minister discuss the issue of trade union and workers' rights in both Britain and the North? In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher took a hatchet to workers and the trade union movement and brought in very draconian anti-worker and anti-trade union legislation to tie the hands of workers and limit their ability to take effective action to defend their rights....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 128. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the average time for an official complaint to the Health and Safety Authority to be processed and acted upon. [59964/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected date for the completion of the permanent school building for a school (details supplied). [59769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 453. To ask the Minister for Health if a tender for a respite service for young adults with autism in community healthcare east has been completed; if so, the details of the successful tender; the location of the service; the type of respite that will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59797/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 527. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and remedy the delay in the assessment of need and diagnosis which is the legal right of a person (details supplied) within the prescribed time period of six months. [60015/21]

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group, including Deputy Naughten, for tabling this important motion on the critical subject of the development of our offshore wind energy resources. There is no doubt but that we need to develop our renewable energy resources quickly. A key part of that will be the development of our offshore wind capacity. Particularly given our huge maritime area and geographical...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Huge numbers of musicians, performers, entertainers and taxi drivers who, as a result of the dramatic reduction in people going out and the new measures on numbers and percentages in theatres and venues which impact on the night-time economy, are applying for the much-trumpeted restoration of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, and are receiving letters denying them it because they had...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People are taking massive hits on their income and they are being denied access to the PUP. What is the Taoiseach going to do for these groups of people who have been bit by measures the Government has taken?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why then are people being denied it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to follow up on the question Deputy Connolly asked earlier. As the Taoiseach knows, Deputy Connolly and I are very strongly in favour of the vaccination programme. We think people should get their boosters and we agree about the injunction to protect life and limb. However, there are human rights considerations for the small number of people who cannot be vaccinated for health...