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Local Authority Housing Maintenance and Repair: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of us will be very familiar with people coming into our constituency office to show us photographs, as Deputy Gould did earlier. I thank him and Sinn Féin for this important motion. There is damp rolling down the walls and the windows. There is black mould in the bathrooms, kitchens and bedrooms. Clothes and bedclothes are made damp as a result. There is a prevalence of...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yugoslavia.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has resorted to McCarthyism. That is what we saw here today. It is absolutely unbelievable but it is not surprising it would have adopted the tactics of the Cold War merchants of the United States who sought to actively crank up inter-imperialist rivalry to the terrifying level that at one point we were on the brink of a nuclear war over Cuba. Those are the stakes. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, 40 workers in the Newpark School of Music received the shock announcement that the school, which has 600 students and has been located on Newpark school grounds for 40 years, was to shut down with a week's notice. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving us an opportunity for a Topical Issue debate on this tomorrow, but I want to flag this issue now because these workers' jobs are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [21327/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised this issue with the Taoiseach before but I would like to repeat it so that action follows.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the issue of medical evidence being provided to local authorities on the question of medical priority housing allocation. Something needs to be done about this. Medical adjudicators are second-guessing specialists, whether they are consultants, OTs, psychologists or psychiatrists. They are often people who do not have these specialties but they are second-guessing them and putting...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised this issue once or twice over the past few weeks but I would like to raise it with the Taoiseach because I am not satisfied with the responses I have got. I was contacted by a Sergeant Patrick Gorman, who served for 35 years in the navy. He had a conduct rating that was exemplary. He had an active service record: 1986 in Lebanon; 1993, Somalia; 2004, Liberia; 2005, Liberia;...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like this looked into.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is Defence Forces.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He gave me permission.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details on the plan for a new-build school in Dún Laoghaire (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23890/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will revise the new way of calculating special education resources to ensure that no school has a reduction in resources next year compared to this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23889/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of reports that planes associated with the flight school, charter flights and flight clubs at Weston Airport are operating outside of designated flight paths; if there are records monitoring the adherence of pilots to their designated flights; to supply any available records; and if he will make a statement on the...