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Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on. Seriously-----

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit opposes this increase, as we have opposed it every year, because it is yet another form of regressive charge. We are very much in favour of promoting and encouraging and, indeed, financing public health education about the dangers of smoking. It undoubtedly make you sick and ill and it kills you in many cases, if not most, eventually. It is dangerous and we want far...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This measure is kind of laughable. I cannot see how a €50 reduction in a €110 fee is going to make any difference to anybody. We will support any bit of relief but this seems laughable, which is probably the best word to describe it. What is less than funny, however, is that the Government has totally ignored the requests made by the music and entertainment industry, in...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Small Benefits Exemption (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We welcome this particular measure and support it. It was much trumpeted in advance that the Government was going to give a serious break to working people. However, as has been said, overall that has not panned out in the budget. Some of the examples provided in the Government's budget book of tax policy changes that were so much trumpeted have turned out to be unfair and pretty derisory....

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said earlier, it is completely unacceptable, whether it is €5 billion or €6 billion, that we are disposing of such an enormous sum of public money in the dead of night without proper debate. I have made our view very clear, as has People Before Profit. Other Deputies stated they do not have a problem with the principle but I do. I made this point both at a meeting of the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will add home care assistants to the critical skills occupations list to address the crisis in recruitment for home carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46604/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that the current average wait time for an NCT booking in the Dublin centres is six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46613/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the interim building will be in place for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46802/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new building for three autism classes in a school (details supplied); when they will be able to go out to tender; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46853/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Widow's Pension (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 308. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for a working person in receipt of a widow's pension being unable to claim illness benefit if they fall ill; if there are any other benefits available to a person in this position; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46901/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Bodies (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 367. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she intends to reduce the size and capacity of the Criminal Assets Bureau during or after its move to a new premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47469/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 498. To ask the Minister for Health the current average processing time for a nursing licence; if his attention has been drawn to any delays in the processing of such licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46893/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The following groups will get no Christmas bonus, no fuel allowance, no €400 payment and no double payment to help them through the cost-of-living crisis and energy price hikes that people are facing this winter: people on jobseeker's benefit, illness benefit, enhanced illness benefit, occupational injuries benefit, maternity benefit and disablement benefit. How is it fair or just...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what they are being told by the Department of Social Protection at the moment.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke on the budget on Tuesday night. As I said then, despite lots of highlighted figures and talk of unprecedented expenditure, the net fact about this budget is that the majority of workers, pensioners, social welfare recipients, people with disabilities and vulnerable low and middle-income households will be worse off next year than they were last year. The measures taken have not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [46016/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of people who are studying to be psychologists, I have raised with the Taoiseach on numerous occasions the fact that educational and counselling psychologists who were doing doctorates did not get funding for very expensive courses. In the budget, the Government extended the funding to counselling psychologists but not to educational psychologists, which is madness when one...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [44835/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have an email in front of me from an accidental landlord who has a tenant in receipt of the housing assistance payment, HAP. The person has to sell the property but does not want to evict the tenant. The landlord asked Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council if it would it buy the place at a reasonable price of approximately of €295,000. The council said it would not do so if a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach says “can” and “should”.