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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that. I think they would appreciate meeting the Minister. While the opportunity for them to make submissions is important, the end game is the critical thing here. The vast majority of people doing PhD research in this country are living in poverty. That seriously impacts on their ability to do their research or even continue as PhD researchers. We give more than €700...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is welcome that we want to be best in class but let us be clear what the starting point is: we are worst in class.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The average PhD pay in Europe is €32,000. In the Nordic countries, it starts at €50,000 and progresses to €55,000 on a fixed-term, four-year contract. In the Netherlands, researchers get about 10% more. Indeed, a lot of our people who are doing postgraduate and research work are going to the Netherlands because everything, from housing to fees to the cost of living, is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure students have access to affordable accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59753/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a stark and unacceptable fact that even if a student is in receipt of the maximum SUSI grant of €6,115, he or she will not be able to afford student accommodation at UCD, where even the cheapest and supposedly most affordable rates range from €6,900 a year up to €10,745. What will the Minister do to ensure there is affordable accommodation at publicly funded...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Government funding for student accommodation is welcome but the devil is in the detail. Will it be genuinely affordable? How much of this new accommodation will there be? It is only the accommodation built with the money the State will put in that will be supposedly affordable. The rest will be unaffordable. Is the Minister aware, for example, that, every year, UCD imposes the maximum...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On that point, we must do the catch-up and provide purpose-built, affordable, student accommodation on university lands. By the way, the idea of state aid rules kicking in is slightly worrying when it comes to public universities. These are public universities and public goods, but I will leave that aside. The vast majority of students are still prey to what is going on in the wider...

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome President von der Leyen to the Dáil and to Ireland. I appreciate her comments about Europe's commitment to ensuring that there will be no hard Border on the island of Ireland or that the exit of Britain from the EU should not in any way adversely impact on the peace on this island. To be honest, nobody out there in the world would thank me if we used this opportunity just to...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The only reason we need this legislation is because of the shameful fact that we have a two-tier health system. Consequently, huge numbers of people, nearly half the people in this country, are so frightened of what will happen to them when they get sick, given the state of the public health system, that they feel it necessary to pay out large sums of money every year in order to have...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome President von der Leyen to the Dáil and to Ireland. I appreciate her comments about Europe's commitment to ensuring that there will be no hard Border on the island of Ireland or that the exit of Britain from the EU should not in any way adversely impact on the peace on this island. To be honest, nobody out there in the world would thank me if we used this opportunity just to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the funding streams from his Department to local authorities; if the local authorities will be fully reimbursed for the increase in the pay and pension bill by the recent public sector agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56464/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions that he has had with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the review that is being carried out by his Department concerning income limits for social housing, given the potential impact on the public finances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56462/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in the light of the new policy approach which recommends that Councils seek to buy homes with tenants in situ when there are social housing support tenants with notices to quit, he has reviewed the capital funding that will be available to local authorities for these purposes; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a full report on any submissions or discussions that he has had with the Department Public Expenditure and Reform with regard to expanding its capital programme for the acquisition of homes for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56465/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way that he decided the capital allocation for housing given that Housing for All targets are being missed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48392/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that clinical, educational and counselling psychologists are all able to become fully qualified with funded MAs, PhDs and necessary placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59754/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that every undergraduate and post-graduate student, including those that are not on SFI and IRC funding, will receive the two €500 cost-of-living measures before the end of 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59752/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the exorbitant costs of graduate entry medicine courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59755/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, for its contribution and reports, which are always interesting and informative. I would like to follow on from the last point because it seems to me that some to degree, all roads lead to the housing problem in this country. The witnesses mentioned the need to plan staffing for the health service, I could say the same about education and a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unlike Deputy O'Donnell, I am not asking the council to proactively support the expenditure of windfall revenues on those things. I asked the question in order to find out whether the council members object to or thought it was fiscally reckless, as against their thinking it reckless to dramatically increase core expenditure we do not have the revenues to cover because some of those windfall...