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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the next one.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is amendment No. 56 the Deputy wishes to address. It is in the next grouping.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suspect that almost none of this adversarial approach - the Minister says he is trying to avoid it, but this amounts to an adversarial approach of putting pressure on the applicants to meet particular timeframes for further information - would be necessary if he did not have the arbitrary six-month exclusion. Why send someone back for more information? Why refuse his or her application?...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are sometimes 30 pages.

Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: To insert the following after "sovereignty and territorial integrity of states": "— condemns North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) activity in escalating the war and using it to increase militarisation; — re-asserts its support for Irish neutrality and declares that Dáil Éireann will not be making any application to join NATO now or in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 186. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review the delays and wait times for driving tests in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8218/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Driver Licences (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance when the suspended disabled drivers’ medical board of appeal will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8184/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the HAP limits and clarify if the band for a parent/parents with two children should have a further uplift where a three-bedroom property is needed due to the age and the sex of children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Covid-19 will be recognised as an occupational disease in Ireland, as per the EU ACSH Agreement in November 2022; if so, when; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8789/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to review the time for appeals for social welfare disallowances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8219/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 608. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the regulations for the fair deal in respect to extra costs incurred by families, which nursing homes are invoicing for, outside of the flat rate fee issued by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8220/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cashing in on high prices.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is particularly appropriate that the Ceann Comhairle mentioned the horrors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima as we mark the first anniversary of Putin's bloody, murderous and criminal invasion of Ukraine. The United States, the biggest power in the world in two days with nuclear weapons incinerated more than 300,000 people. Today, Vladimir Putin, another nuclear power, said he is ramping up his...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody is clear that Putin is a murderous tyrant and criminal warmonger. However, I quoted the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which is made up of ten Nobel Peace Laureates who start by condemning Putin and then go on to urge NATO. The problem is that the Tánaiste has a blind spot when it comes to the equally bloody history of NATO and its major powers. The United States has never...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Tánaiste call that a war crime? Will he say the Palestinians have the right to military resistance against what Israel is doing? Of course he will not because Israel is an ally of the United States. We will never prevent war if a neutral country has a blind spot about some of the warmongers in this world. A consistent position is opposing all nuclear powers, all warmongering...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----tyrannical regime of Russia or NATO and the western powers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is being done without the assent of this House.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The objectives of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill seem fairly laudable. The main purposes of the Bill are, as set out in the explanatory memorandum, to "recognise the prevention of harm to individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable or at risk, as an explicit objective of An Garda Síochána; provide a new coherent governance and oversight framework for...