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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consult with the National Transport Authority and a company (details supplied) to review the bus timetables of the services 59 and 111 serving Dalkey, Loughlinstown, Killiney and Dún Laoghaire to include a service that caters for school children attending schools, in view of the fact that there is currently no...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the representatives from NERI and Social Justice Ireland. As always, their contributions have been most informative. To cut a long story short, what I am hearing is that indexing and benchmarking welfare against wages is the way to do it because if we use inflation, the less well off will see a bigger gap growing between them and workers. In addition, if I heard the witnesses...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Indexation of Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dr. McDonnell answered very comprehensively. I thank him very much. I am curious about what he has to say on the energy issue, given that it is very topical at present.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since we agreed the Order of Business last week we have had the really shocking announcement of the Government's bloody-minded insistence on going back to a traditional leaving certificate, which ignores the clear call of leaving certificate students for an alternative. Before that decision is finalised we need to have a serious discussion in this House, because there are alternatives. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and stressful leaving certificate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach allow for a debate on the leaving certificate and the options and alternatives for students?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need a specific discussion on this.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach agreed to a debate on the leaving certificate? I want clarity on that.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will meet next. [4698/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a similar issue of rewarding workers who played a critical role during Covid, obviously we all accept and welcome the announcement that front-line workers are to get a pandemic bonus, although it should be extended to carers, as has been discussed. There is no doubt that group were on the front line of the Covid response. What does the Taoiseach have to say, if he is not willing to...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet.. [2221/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Friday in the District Court, behind the Four Courts, five individuals and families - working-class people - are going to pay the price for the Taoiseach’s failure to address the housing crisis. The case of the St. Helen’s Court apartment complex, where a vulture fund is going to evict the families, really tells the story of this housing crisis. They have always played...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Court on Friday.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The law allows this one.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sale by a vulture fund.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4699/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The leaving certificate should be scrapped. It was never a fair exam. It always discriminated against those with special needs and those from disadvantaged areas and all of that has been compounded and made worse in the teeth of a pandemic. Will the Government take the bold step now, which could get us out of this mess, and say that everybody should be able to study the higher or further...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Ward and Daly for their timely and good motion to address the scandal that arose from, but is in no way limited to, what happened in CAMHS in Kerry. As Deputy Gino Kenny said, we have tabled an amendment that does not take anything from the motion but adds a few additional refinements. Specifically, it sets out that the review of CAMHS has to be independent, as Deputy Kenny...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Places (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 42 new schools planned for 2019 to 2022 under the online patronage preference system that have permanent sites and buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4812/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will now consider implementing the call by a union (details supplied) for open access to third-level and getting rid of the traditional leaving certificate once and for all; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4813/22]