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Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a win-win.

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We support the Bill. As I understand it, the Bill essentially deals with one of the outworkings of Brexit by trying to recommence a situation that was the case before Brexit whereby medical graduates from the UK and the North can do internships here. That would be beneficial for the health service here. We support what the Bill is trying to achieve. As others have said, it highlights the...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has met the society. To me it is a slam dunk that we should do this. I am coming across a considerable number of young people who are very interested in the area of mental health, they want to go into this area and we are putting obstacles in their way which makes no sense. The society says that the figures for extending the salary and the assistance with fees for...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he can clarify the policy in relation to building a liquefied natural gas terminal in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45744/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will examine the current liberalised energy system and its impact on energy prices; if his Department will look at the policies of other states who have moved to some forms of renationalisation of energy generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45745/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that a taxi driver (details supplied) whose taxi licence expired during the pandemic and was not in a financial position to renew it until now can take to have it renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45915/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 224. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of excise duty that would be foregone if energy prices were capped as follows: Petrol at €1.75 per litre; Diesel at €1.75 per litre; Electricity at 25c per kilowatt hour; Natural Gas at 8c per kilowatt hour; Oil (kerosene) at €1 per litre. [45818/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 381. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing the disability allowance for all recipients to €350 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45838/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (20 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 382. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing all headline social protection payments to €300 per week, excluding the disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45839/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of rolling out the in-school and early years therapy support demonstration pilot project in each school across Ireland. [46109/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be moved to a nursing home nearer to their family home in Glasthule, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46163/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nearly 100 years ago, Ireland's national poet, W.B. Yeats, wrote that this was no country for old men. If he was writing today in the face of a cost-of-living and housing disaster, he might well write that this is no country for older people, younger people, working people, people with disabilities or the vulnerable. It is a country for profit-hungry energy companies, big corporations and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the CSO, approximately 54,000 people left this country last year. I suspect we will see those numbers rise. It is true that marginally more came in but that is still a significant outflow of people. It was not my opinion I was sharing. I was sharing the opinion of the young students I was talking to yesterday in UCD. I met a group of postgraduate students who said they have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste should check with the CSO.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste should check the CSO figures.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People can check the facts.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to follow the example of other countries in relation to reducing the costs of public transport and moving to a free and frequent public transport system nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46235/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the calls made by taxi representative groups at a meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications for supports for their industry (details supplied); his plans to support the calls; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46270/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Policy (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance the way that he intends to use the billions in additional revenue now available to him as a result of the surge in corporate tax receipts expected this year; the way that these may be used to combat the ever-worsening housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46268/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2023 (22 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is planning any further taxation measures in Budget 2023 to bring the large numbers of vacant and derelict homes into use given the severity of the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46266/22]