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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is going to destroy biodiversity.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Here we go.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Developers are on the loose again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with matters relating to justice will next meet. [49961/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [49962/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many if not most organisations advocating for people with disabilities were extremely disappointed with the budget. One of the demands they all rallied behind was that there should be a cost-of-disability premium to bring minimum payments for people with disabilities up to €350 per week, as we deemed appropriate during Covid, and that people with disability should get at least that...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week in the House, we discussed the issue of disconnections for users of prepay meters. On Friday, after holding my weekly clinic, I went to meet senior citizens who live in council accommodation. While I was meeting these elderly residents, an emergency occurred. They informed me of a man who had just got out of hospital, having spent five or six months there following multiple...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Labour Party for putting forward this important motion and most of all I commend workers in the community and voluntary sector, both for this campaign and for the absolutely vital work they do for our entire society and most often for vulnerable people, for communities and disadvantaged communities, for young people and for people with disabilities. They are in many cases, the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I highlighted the case of a family with two autistic children who are living in a tent because they are entitled to absolutely no housing support at all, whether that is the housing assistance payment, HAP, emergency accommodation or social housing, because they are over the social housing income thresholds. For about two years now, I have highlighted the case of a mother who...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was my minute. I was watching.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to ensure similar funding for educational psychologists considering the shortage of educational psychologists and also the recent announcement of the funding for counselling psychologists’ placements by the Minister for Health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50023/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the crisis of recruitment and substitute teachers in the major urban centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50024/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the minimum or optimum number of mechanics who should be employed in each of the 49 NCT centres in Ireland, listed individually; the number of mechanics who are currently employed in each centre; the current average waiting times for NCT appointments in each of the centres to date in tabular and written form; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 258. To ask the Minister for Finance if renters under a licence agreement will be entitled to the renters' tax credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49452/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the policy change in his Department with regard to the purchase of HAP, RAS and leased tenancies by local authorities or approved housing bodies, AHBs, in cases in which tenants are in receipt of a notice to quit; if he will provide circulars, memos and or any guidelines issued to the local authorities or AHBs in this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list broken down by local authority, of all HAP and RAS tenancies bought by local authorities with the tenant in situ since the April 2022 circular allowing same to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50130/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the application for planning permission for a school (details supplied) was submitted with no up-to-date green measures which is out of line with Government policy and has led to the application being refused by the planners and yet another delay in the delivery of this school; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that the interim application for a temporary school (details supplied) is delayed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she will take to address the endless delays and disappointments in relation to the provision of a school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (11 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an applicant has a right to an oral hearing when requesting an appeal of a social welfare decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49474/22]