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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 767. To ask the Minister for Health the other options open for a woman suffering from endometriosis, who was referred to a pain specialist (details supplied), but was told that they could be waiting over a year for their appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26216/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will use the opportunity of Budget 2024 to abolish all registration and tuition fees for undergraduate students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26744/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends in Budget 2024 to ensure that all PhD researchers receive a stipend of at least the living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26743/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes he intends to make to student fees in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26746/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Budget 2024 will include measures to ensure that student accommodation is affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26747/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure in Budget 2024 that all three streams of PhD psychology students are fully-funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26745/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the Council of Europe. [24732/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yet again, it is noticeable that despite the sort of laudable concerns the Taoiseach had about human rights at the Council of Europe, there was no mention of Palestine. Yesterday I met with the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel. I met its representatives again at the Joint Committee...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Neither do the Americans.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Council of Europe (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is not suggesting that Israel is planning to withdraw.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national reform programme for the European semester recently published by his Department. [26164/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The NRP acknowledges the problems with assessments of need but has less to say, when one has obtained an assessment, about the resources that are made available. I will give the Taoiseach an example. The case involving Theo, who is 13, and his parents, is quite urgent. Theo has severe autism and intellectual disability. He is in residential care but he has not been in a school...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cross-Border Co-operation (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to particularly welcome the South African delegation to remind the Taoiseach of a very particular relationship that exists between this country, South Africa and Palestine. We had the first version of apartheid with the penal laws. These were systematic discrimination which contributed very substantially to the Famine in this country. The people of South Africa struggled...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my condolences to those offered to the family of Christy Dignam, as Deputy Smith did. Christy was a legend in music and a beautiful singer. He was a working-class hero and I suspect his songs will be sung for a long time, if not forever. He will be greatly missed but his legacy will live on. It would probably surprise many people that we have a situation where there is such a thing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank God for that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Government's response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [28603/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is interesting that the Taoiseach was talking about the difficulty of the leaving certificate mathematics exam when it is clear there are problems understanding mathematics in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The competitiveness challenge report highlighted the vital need to address the high cost of housing and one of the centrepieces of the Government's response...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Health is next due to meet. [28606/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach painted a rather rosy picture of the Government's progress in addressing the problems of the health service. A very different picture was presented by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association on Friday in a press statement it put out, detailing that 893,000 people are now on some form of National Treatment Purchase Fund waiting list, that a further 250,000 people are waiting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Taoiseach which Cabinet sub-committees will meet before the summer recess. [28607/23]