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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what grants or supports are available to a person with intellectual disabilities owing to an injury (details supplied), where the individual received a substantial compensation award on foot of this injury and whose assessed income therefore disqualifies them for social housing; whether this award can be excluded for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 304. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the recourse a person (details supplied) has in circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23534/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (28 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 701 of 2 February 2024, by what criteria schools that are expressing interest in the hot school meals programme are appraised in order to be granted provision of meals under the scheme; if she will provide the appropriate guidelines for schools expressing interest; when her Department...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with defence will next meet. [23880/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools of Music (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 22 May, the 40 or so staff of the Newpark Academy of Music, in which there are approximately 600 students, were informed in a shock and unexpected notification that the school was to close. Those staff will lose their jobs and those 600 music students will no longer have a school. The Newpark Academy of Music has been operating for 45 years serving the community and doing outreach...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools of Music (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to be honest. That is a shocking response. It is a case of "Pass the buck; it has nothing to do with us." It is a pity the senior Minister is not here. As I said, this is also about arts and culture and the commitment of the Government to ensure access for young people to those things. The Minister said the school is a private entity. It is a not-for-profit registered charity...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether the National Development Plan has sufficiently taken into account and is adequately resourced to meet the growing demand for sports facilities, particularly with the very considerable and welcome growth of women’s sports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17859/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline his plans to further strengthen the capacity of local authorities to increase delivery of social housing, as stated in the strategic investment priorities of the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18087/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is planning any further spending on capacity and resources for local authorities to tackle vacancy and dereliction of properties and to increase the stock of social and affordable housing as indicated in the NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16221/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering additional funding to the Land Development Agency for a specific purpose of funding acquisition of long-term vacant and derelict buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19524/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to an urban DEIS band 1 primary school in circumstances (details supplied), what recourse is available to the school; how the school might be allocated an additional teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (30 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is considering or working on introducing any similar approach for dependant spouses of PhDs as has been introduced for stamp 1 general work permit employees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24501/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Northern Ireland will meet next. [23881/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, I was talking to People Before Profit MLA, Mr. Gerry Carroll, about his involvement in supporting and standing with junior doctors who have been on the picket lines in a series of walkouts in the North over the failure to get decent pay and decent conditions. It is a very familiar story of the junior doctors saying they are not valued, they are working ridiculous hours and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What of the junior doctors?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent phone conversation with the Israeli President. [23882/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Middle East (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This evening, Mothers Against Genocide will hold a protest outside Government Buildings. I am sure they would be glad if the Taoiseach went out to talk to them. The particular focus of their protest this evening is these enormous dumb bombs that are being used by Israel in Gaza to blow the place to bits and have been provided by the United States. The protest will highlight the outrageous...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the recently published national reform programme 2024. [23996/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Among other things, the NRP addresses the housing crisis and challenges relating to housing. I again draw the Taoiseach's attention to a particular aspect of the housing crisis, namely people who are working, earning money, paying tax and contributing to our society who find themselves driven over the thresholds for social housing. Those thresholds are so low those people are losing their...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (12 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to speak in support of these amendments. I do not see how it is at all credible that the Secretary General of the Department of Defence can sit on a body that is supposed to be an independent, external oversight body over the Defence Forces. As Deputy Berry has just pointed out, there is a glaring contradiction when you talk about having the right to remove people where there...