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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that he intends to take to address the inequality in and the inadequacy of stipends across PhD research students which is now exacerbated by the recent Budget 2023 increase of €500 only to those in receipt of SFI and IRC stipends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51700/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the chronic shortage of affordable accommodation for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51703/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will abolish the fees for graduate entry medicine programmes, given the chronic shortage of doctors across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51701/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all postgraduate psychology students are provided with funded doctorate programmes and to end the discrepancies in funding between clinical, educational and counselling psychologists; if he will abolish all fees for these programmes to address the chronic shortage of these professionals across the public service; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he recognises the need to remove all fees for and financial barriers to further and higher education given the shortage of graduates and postgraduates across multiple sectors of Ireland’s economy and public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51704/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct NAMA to urgently pay for the remediation costs of the building defects leading to fire safety and water ingress issues at a location (details supplied); if he will ask NAMA for an explanation as to the reason that it has not done this to date when receivers controlled by NAMA in the neighbouring estate reportedly carried out similar...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 382. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the person who is responsible for inviting four separate NATO-connected warships to visit Cork harbour in recent months; the reason that such invitations were issued; if these warships having been welcomed into Irish ports or allowed to use Ireland’s seas violates the Hague Convention on Neutrality; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the State has ratified or signed the Hague Convention on Neutrality (V); the plans that exist for Ireland to come into full compliance with the Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52045/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cost of Living Issues (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, as an urgent measure, he will look into reforming the need for social work students to do four months unpaid full-time placements, especially in view of the need for more social workers in the country and the current cost of-living-crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51831/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 749. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital; the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist when a referring GP submits an urgent request at the same hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51430/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the arms industry companies from Ireland and other parts of the world that attended the recent 6 October 2022 arms fair, organised by the Department of Defence in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52081/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the call from a group (details supplied) for forest premiums in the next forestry programme not to be available to large scale institutional forestry investment funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52086/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Months of Opposition pressure, public anger and protest yesterday dragged the Government kicking and screaming into bringing in a temporary eviction ban. According to the Government's interesting figures yesterday, as welcome as the belated ban is it still means that 2, 273 people will face eviction after the ban ends, which means that the level of homelessness is likely to be up to 13,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's figures, if it meets, or slightly exceeds, the target for social and affordable housing in my area there will be more people on the housing list in four years' time than there are now. That is how inadequate the policy is. We need additional measures beyond what the Government has done to date. On the issue of buying...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: First Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to ban evictions for the duration of the current housing emergency. Incidentally, this is the third Bill that People Before Profit has introduced in an effort to ban evictions where people would end up homeless through no fault of their own. The first of these was introduced in...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: First Stage (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a timeline for future citizens’ assemblies. [50103/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss will look very closely at the manner in which our marine resources and offshore marine areas have been grabbed for so-called "relevant projects" in offshore industrial wind. The developers have chosen the sites, which are often very sensitive sites that arguably or definitely should have been designated as marine protected areas, something...