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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Monkstown Educate Together National School has lost a whole special education teacher for next year. This is happening all over the place because of this new model of allocation of special education resources and the removal of complex needs as a criterion. It needs to be addressed. When speaking to school communities affected by this, they make a simple point - the Department should trust...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Other schools do not want them. We need to look into this and change the model based on need.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not the schools.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not all of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Acting Chair. I have to go over to the Dáil shortly for questions but I will be raising Palestine. I thank Deputy Brady for producing the Bill and the IPSC and Sadaka for their ongoing tremendous work in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they face their darkest hour. The campaigning has been going on for many years in both cases and they are to be much commended....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies, I need the A, B, C, Ladybird guide here.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Genuinely, I want to understand it absolutely. Section 219, I accept, has a hell of a lot more detail in terms of housing strategy. The local authority will produce a housing development strategy, which is slightly more high level and then it will also do a housing strategy. Why is it replicating? I struggling to understand why it is replicating.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unless I am missing something, it seems like needless replication.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not quite understand why you develop a more detailed strategy and subsequently a less detailed strategy.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, please. In terms of putting together the housing development strategy, currently the Bill states "The housing development strategy may ... indicate in respect of any particular area referred to in paragraph (a) that there is no requirement for housing referred to in subsection (6) of section 219 in respect of that area, or that a lower percentage than that specified in the housing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Ó Broin and O'Callaghan for supporting my amendments. The Government should accept the amendments and the rationale behind them. This is not about whether we agree or disagree about Part V. I am absolutely happy with it, and said so in the introduction, and further on, I have amendments that seek to increase the proportion of Part V of social and affordable housing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 381: In page 105, to delete lines 35 to 39.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 29 February 2024, the steps a person (details supplied) can take to ensure they receive their renewed passport in their new name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12446/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 548. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the conditions imposed on arts companies that received funding grants from the Arts Council in relation to adherence to employment law; if sanctions are imposed on such companies if they are found to be in breach of employment law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 558. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's working definition of public service broadcasting; if the term should be taken to imply all activity by State-owned broadcasters, or only activity taken by such broadcasters in service of a defined public service mission; if there is a definition; whether there are plans to ring-fence funding for particular...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 559. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views of the self-description by a company (details supplied) that it is a commercial public service broadcaster; whether her Department will take any action to publicly to clarify whether the term public service broadcasting is applicable to commercial providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12336/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a tenant’s top-up led them to accumulating arrears would he consider HAP rates for this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11788/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason part V council tenancies are excluded from the tenant purchase scheme when other tenants of council owned houses are included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date of the DNA working group established to consider the potential role of DNA in the context of the provision of the statutory tracing service under the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department has taken to inform adoptees and mother and baby home survivors of any potential role for DNA technologies in tracing birth information, given the diverse levels of technological literacy across society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11871/24]