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Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Barrett is right that this is about setting up the structures for a new budgetary process. The consensus view is that it should be chimed with the new politics, whatever that might be, but that there would be a new way of doing budgeting that is more open, transparent and participative, both with groups inside and outside the Parliament. However, it is legitimate, in the context of...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In recent years the previous Government trumpeted what it saw as its success in creating jobs and stimulating economic growth. The Government is continuing to do this. There is no doubt that jobs have been created and that economic growth has occurred but is the jobs and growth strategy, as the title of this debate suggests, sustainable at all levels? Is it sustainable in the sense that it...

Adjournment Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an issue the Government and the new politics urgently has to do something about. The Minister is aware that in the past few weeks, we have had two instances where people who are ill, often with life-threatening illnesses or seriously disabling illnesses, are not able to access certain drugs because of price, rather than the question of their medical efficacy or how they could help...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider establishing a State pharmacy to source best value pharmaceuticals for supplying hospitals, general practitioners and pharmacies, and to estimate the savings that would be made to the Exchequer with this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13766/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will re-establish the Economic Management Council. [10153/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committees he will establish. [10154/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to implement the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11576/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Meetings (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine To report on his meetings with the new Chief Executive of Coillte Teoranta (details supplied) including his plans for future meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14503/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Appointments to State Boards (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the appointment of a person (details supplied) as executive director of Coillte Teoranta heralds a further commercialisation of the company; if this is appropriate for the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14504/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 294. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will receive the full SWA payment of €186 per week, rather than the reduced rate of €100 per week, while the person is awaiting a decision on a disability allowance claim. [14357/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he no longer provides back to education allowance payments for students studying outside of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14805/16]

Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is important to highlight the fact that the proposals for the Order of Business were changed an hour or two ago from those we had originally received. The changes relate to a correct decision made by the Government which had been prompted by a telephone call made by me to the Chief Whip’s office, about an original proposal to have a European directive on country by country...

Order of Business (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is welcome that it has. However, it was only because representations had been made. Deputies need to know that a subject of great significance will be decided on by the Dáil tomorrow.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet Committee on Construction 2020, Housing, Planning and Mortgage Arrears in 2016 to date; and the proposed dates for any upcoming meetings. [14507/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle, I believe you are right with the original proposal. If we are to manage the time, people will have to be brief.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Back and forth-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Almost everything that comes into my clinic every week involves housing. No matter how much talk we hear from the Government or how many announcements, of which there are many, are made, it just gets worse. This week, I had a woman come into me who had a stroke three years ago, is partially paralysed, suffered a septic aneurysm and septicaemia recently, has epilepsy and is deaf in one ear....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Minister that and I am also asking for the following basic thing. People who are in the absolutely desperate situations I have described must get every support and resource and the staffing necessary to deliver for them within the local authorities. They must have help to find something dignified rather than to just be thrown to the wolves and told to go out and find...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have been in a car for four months but she has been very ill for the last three months and in a housing crisis for the last three years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet committee on health in 2016 to date; and the proposed dates for any upcoming meeting. [14508/16]