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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options a taxi driver has to renew their licence in cases in which they cannot get an answer to emails or phone calls to the National Driver Licence Service for over two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5036/22]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a report on the online patronage process system that was opened in 2018 to decide 42 new schools to include name of school and catchment area, type of patronage of each school; if enrolment has opened on the schools; if the schools have temporary sites or permanent sites or both identified; the stage the building of these...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for a building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4856/22]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full report on all the actions that have been taken to identify a temporary and a permanent site for a school (details supplied) including efforts to purchase or lease a site as well as using any existing site owned by her Department with a list of all the sites that were looked at; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether all lectures should be held on campus including Maynooth University as opposed to online given that pubs, restaurants, football matches, cinema and so on are all back to full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5041/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I try to avoid masochism myself.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Friday, in the District Court beside the Four Courts, five households - families and individuals - will taste the very bitter fruits of this Government's failure to protect tenants from ruthless vulture funds and against no-fault evictions and to offer them alternatives when they are faced with homelessness, either in terms of social housing or private rental accommodation that they...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of the tenants, I invite the Taoiseach, members of Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, the Labour Party and anyone else who can to get down to the courts to support those tenants. There will be a solidarity rally on Friday. None of the things the Taoiseach has just mentioned would protect these tenants. The tenancies of indefinite duration still allow a vulture fund to evict...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is poor comfort for decent tenants being evicted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is poor comfort.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Constitution includes the common good.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [4700/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The north Kerry child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, scandal brought to light a much longer-term scandal of the over-medication of young people compensating for the chronic lack of staffing and resources in our mental health services. I want to ask particularly about the utter lack of community psychology and primary care psychology. One aspect of this, and I have been...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach referred earlier to the pension age in the North being increased to 66, which is certainly not a good thing. I would suggest that hiding behind that fact is not an excuse for not returning the pension age to 65. This is a point I have often made to the Taoiseach. Surely if we want to encourage people to be part of a united Ireland, we need to make being part of a united...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Making a united Ireland.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Think about a united Ireland.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There have been many requests, including those I have made, that the Taoiseach's Department take responsibility for an area that crosses many departmental demarcations as a result of which there is no proper integrated and cohesive approach, namely, disability. The Taoiseach has to look at this again. I will give him a simple example. I have raised ACTS with him a few times, the...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was next.

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the day that is in it, it might be worth paraphrasing Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses when he famously said, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Covid-19 was certainly a nightmare from which we are all trying to awake. One of the great things about Ulysses, of which I am a big fan, is that Joyce takes as his characters the ordinary people, whereas in all...