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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil and the Green Party run that council.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not been opposing council developments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the low paid.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [6400/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are going to protect and improve biodiversity and increase forest cover as part of that, something radical has to change in Coillte, the State forestry company. The Riverstick forest sale is an absolute disgrace. Before Christmas I had to help the local community in the Enniskerry area to ring alarm bells about Coillte’s plan to sell a public forest in that area, which is a...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new provisions he is putting in place to ensure affordable rents for students in view of the spiralling rent costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6442/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of extra places that would be needed in higher education to allow for an open access model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6439/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on discussions with the Minister for Education with regard to the possibilities of an open access model for third level that would remove the need for a traditional leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6438/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to alleviate the economic pressures on students in higher education and in particular his plans to provide affordable student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6440/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all barriers on the path qualification in psychology, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy are removed including the abolition of fees for primary degrees and postgraduate degrees and to ensure that students are paid a living wage for their placements in view of the staffing crisis in CAMHS, early...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte road licences issued on the forestry licensing dashboard in week three of January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5857/22]
- National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government does not have the guts to stand up publicly and argue with us or oppose what we asking for here, which is an emergency review of the minimum wage. In our view, there is a need to increase it to, as an absolute minimum, €15 per hour. The Government is going to accept our motion but with absolutely no intention of acting on it. The public out there should know that this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [6392/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Daft report showing annual rent increases of 10% for the past year demonstrates the utter failure of the Government's rent control measures. Earlier, I heard the Taoiseach ask whether Opposition Deputies had any solutions. Uniquely we have repeatedly argued for actual rent controls where we set rents. A transition year school student, Shyanne, is doing her work placement in my office...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not working.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach think rents will come down with all this supply?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach think rents will come down?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He should know; he arms quite a few of them.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Look at Hungary.