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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit in his Department. [53907/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from that point, the Israeli massacre in Gaza continues. Hundreds of people are being killed every day. More than 20,000 have been killed, 70% of whom were women and children. The Taoiseach has indicated that there is nothing really that he can do about it except criticise it. I suggest that what he could do is read, if he has not done so, the reports produced before 7...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since 1948.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [53908/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the end of last year, NESC produced a report on improving industrial relations. I suggest that NESC was absolutely right to focus on this subject when we consider that Fórsa has demonstrations today outside hospitals because of the really outrageous fact that a recruitment embargo has been imposed across our health service. Fórsa points out that due to this recruitment pause,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- on a health service when we need more, not less, staff.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If Deputy Barry does not arrive I will; if he does, I will share time. How many thousand more Palestinians will be dead by the time the European Council meets next week? Some 16,000 have already died, 70% of whom were women and children. Children, including babies, accounted for 40%. How many more will be dead before the Taoiseach goes to the European Council next week? He told us...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I very much doubt it. We have had to have significant Supplementary Estimates for health for a good few years. The Minister could probably remind me of that number.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This year, it is just over €1 billion.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a 4% increase on the initial allocation and the Minister said it was more or less the same last year.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are we not fooling ourselves that the allocation we are making in the budget is simply inadequate? We must know that in advance.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Minister is kind of saying is that he is giving the minimum allocation that he can possibly give in order to put downward pressure on what the Minister will spend, knowing quite well that he is going to have to give a supplementary. That is what it sounds like to me. I take the point about the external exceptional circumstances in terms of the presence of a large number of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Minister about that.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I get the point. Can I-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Supplementary Estimates for 2023: Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (6 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I take some of the points the Minister is making. Due to a family member being ill for some time, I have had occasion to go into one of our major hospitals every week, at least once a week, for about the past year. I can tell the Minister that the story I hear every week is the same, namely, understaffing, lack of resources, not enough people on the wards and, in some cases, outright chaos,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the Government is committed to ensuring there will be no diminution in the quality and offering of public service broadcasting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53637/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the film industry stakeholder forum will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht how the film industry stakeholder forum will be instituted and who will be invited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53635/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the 7.45 a.m. service on the No. 7 bus from Brides Glen to the city centre is cancelled so frequently (details supplied); if the matter will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53349/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 475. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will remove the requirement for childcare providers to provide a separate set of financial records to the ones filed with the Revenue Commissioners in the core funding model (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53433/23]