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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (7 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that has been spent by the Legal Aid Board to personal insolvency practitioners, solicitors and barristers under the PIA Review of the Legal Aid Service for 2022 and 2023; the details of these payments; the companies and individuals that received same; the amount received by each company and individual; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (7 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that has been accrued, but is as yet unpaid, by the Legal Aid Board to personal insolvency practitioners, solicitors and barristers under the PIA Review of the Legal Aid Service since its inception in 2016 to date; the details of these liabilities; the companies to which they are owed; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what his role is in ensuring full compliance with employment legislation and workers right in the film TV arts and audio visual sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given the new information from the ESRI on low pay work, if he will consider the abolishment of sub-minimum wage rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5799/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment given that an increasing number of employers are in breach of national minimum wage laws, but the number of prosecutions is low, how is he going to enforce minimum wage law compliance and if there will be additional penalties to employers for minimum wage law breaches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Intellectual Property (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what progress he is making in addressing the concerns of actors, performers, writers and directors in the film and TV industry in relation to fully vindicating their intellectual property rights under the copyright directive and copyright legislation. [5800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform given the need for large supplementary estimates in health and education in 2023, the steps he will take to avoid underestimates of funding public services; how he is going to monitor the adequacy of funding provision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5768/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform what considerations he has given to the proposed four day work week across the public sector as raised by multiple trade unions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5769/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 172. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering the high cost of accommodation as a significant factor in recruitment and retention challenges; and what considerations will be given to this. [5955/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (8 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider the establishment of a state-run construction company to assist in achieving the National Development Plan goals and particularly the urgent need to address the housing crisis and critical infrastructure development. [5956/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is incomprehensible that a regime which has for four months inflicted a slaughter on the people of Gaza that has claimed the lives of close to 30,000 people, displaced almost 2 million people and brought an entire population to the brink of famine, and which is in the dock, indicted for genocide, the worst crime a state or human being can commit, is contemplating yet another massacre of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: None of the horror that has happened over the past four months would have happened if western governments, including the European Union and the United States, had not given impunity to Israel for years. Long before the current horrific escalation of violence, Israel was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity for its occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing, which has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Government cannot simply say: "Oh there's nothing we can do". Because that impunity is what has given Israel the licence to continue with this horror.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The west is arming Israel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying we should end apartheid.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Planning and Development Bill is the second biggest piece of legislation that has ever gone through this House. It deals with critical issues to do with the delivery of housing, the right of communities to participate in the planning and development of their area, the right of communities and individuals to have access to justice on community planning and development issues, and much...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Held hostage. They are being held hostage in Gaza.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit published a plan for the funding of RTÉ and public broadcasting in August last year. It was obvious at that stage that there was a funding crisis. The TV licence has always been a regressive charge. After the Government's issues and the Tubridy scandal, it was obvious this could not work but the Government has not made a decision. The consequence is that 13,000...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government needs to scrap the TV licence and bring in a digital tax to directly fund RTÉ and public service broadcasting.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (13 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the child poverty and well-being unit. [4031/24]