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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Measures (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeline for all the Financial Emergency Measures in Public Interests legislation restoration dates over the remainder of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21454/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will publish his review of the income limits for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21375/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cost of Living Issues (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is proposing a mini-budget to address the cost of living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21446/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning any new tax measures to address growing income inequality in view of the recent reports of increases in senior executive pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider closing down tax loopholes such as section 110 that could be utilised by oligarchs and other financially dubious entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21449/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 903. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency plans she had in place in the event that examiners might not be able to attend oral exams for students sitting their leaving certificate exams in 2022; if she is considering bringing forward the date from 4 May 2022 to an earlier date to hold the now postponed Irish oral exam for approximate 500 students affected by this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1245. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she plans to introduce schemes for family reunification for Yemini citizens given the dangerous situation as a result of the war there; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19420/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgical mesh surgeries that have been performed in Ireland for reasons other than vaginal prolapse including but not limited to bowel surgery and hernia; the number of these surgeries that have resulted in complications from the mesh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19206/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1337. To ask the Minister for Health the options that are available for dental care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19263/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1925. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 220 of 26 January 2022, if he will provide a copy of each of the weekly tables of active harvesting sites provided to his Department by Coillte in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20825/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister for his contribution. The cost-of-living crisis, which is manifested in multiple areas, is the biggest challenge that we have in supply. It is self-evidently a challenge for large parts of our population, but it will also pose a very serious challenge economically and financially to the State because if people cannot afford to live here, they will not come here in as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Am I out of time?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The approach to the affordability of housing is just not working on the ground. The Minister says supply is increasing. I accept that. Everybody can see the cranes around the place. There are a lot of them in my area. However, everything coming onto the market is being rented at €2,200 a month or more. That is no good to anybody. That supply would be all well and good if it was...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update 2022: Minister for Finance (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----unit price or taxing them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all want a state-of-the-art national maternity hospital as quickly as possible. The reason for this shambles and this delay is that this Government and successive Governments have insisted that private companies controlled by religious orders must remain in the picture, even though every cent going into building this hospital is public money and that what is wanted is a public hospital...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Three board members are from St. Vincent's Healthcare Group.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is it involved?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are fantastic staff in St. Vincent's and many of the other hospitals. I predicate everything that I say by making that point. They are fantastic people. The problem with these religious organisations is that, for example in St. Vincent's, one cannot get sterilisation or a vasectomy. Why not? This is a hospital that is publicly funded but owned by a religious organisation that has an...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it because they want hold of an asset? Why do we need a private company that has other private companies as subscribers? Why do we need all of that-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----rather than simply a publicly owned and controlled hospital on public land?