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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to establish a Cabinet committee on justice reform; and, if so, when it will meet. [14509/16]

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he met with or will meet with the chief executive or any senior officials of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council regarding the future governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour as legislated for in the Harbours Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15609/16]

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will be aware that, for some years now, I have been questioning the policies, status, governance and operations of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. I note that, at the weekend, the Minister spoke out, as he has tended to do over the years, against quangos and on his determination to deal with the quangos under his remit. Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is a quango, and a...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the positive response about meeting people. I am concerned the decision about the future governance of the harbour is, according to the Minister's scripted response, a decision between the existing harbour company executive and the council executive. This is not good enough because on all of the major issues, whether it is cruise berths, executive salaries of crazy amounts, such...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I attended the public meeting organised by the parents of 162 children in St. Augustine's special school two weeks ago. It was an incredibly emotional, distressing and angry meeting of parents of children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities who, incredibly, had letters put into their schoolbags by St. John of God telling them the vocational services that are the critical...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I welcome the Minister of State's willingness to meet the affected parents, the reply is the same bureaucratic answer we are getting from St. John of God community services. Special needs assistants are not a replacement for residential services. The whole point of the school was that it provided vocational supports, which are not provided by special needs assistants who provide...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be opposing this motion. Let us state it boldly as it is: the war on drugs has failed and the war on gangland criminality via the Special Criminal Court or other repressive legislation has failed. We are just as concerned as the Minister and, in many cases I suspect, more concerned in that some of the Deputies on the left represent some of the poorest and most disadvantaged areas...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also support the Bill, although, as Deputy Coppinger said, we need to go a hell of a lot further and we need to do it very fast. I do not understand the reticence being expressed by the Government and Fianna Fáil about the committee and so on. If this can roll in to highlight the issue, further indicate the urgency of it and roll into any good that comes out - I certainly hope...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just telling the Minister that he has to reach the point at which he acknowledges that the market cannot be allowed to set rents, because the market is setting rents that are absolutely unaffordable for the vast majority of people. If there is no recognition of that, we are going nowhere. The situation is worse. The first time I brought homeless people to the Dáil was in 2012....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with a delegation of different interest groups from the greater Dún Laoghaire area to discuss plans for the future governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15610/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the advice she will provide in the circumstances of a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15555/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the refusal by the Primary Staffing Appeals Board for an additional teacher outside the allocation for a school (details supplied). [15562/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to a secondary school placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15570/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans and timescale for a senior college on Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire; if these plans are contingent on funding from his Department; if the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education Training Board made an application for such funding if it is opposed to entering into an arrangement with Saint Nicholas Montessori College Ireland;...

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is. It is profiteering.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mentioned this briefly the other day.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Originally this proposal was not down for debate at all, quite extraordinarily.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did, but I am going to make it again.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to acknowledge the efforts of Alice in the Whip's office in bringing this to the attention of the Government and allowing for some time. When she asked me whether this was satisfactory, I said some time was better than none.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still do not think the time being provided is adequate and would briefly like to explain why, a Cheann Comhairle.