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- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is exactly it.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the wider-----
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I take the Minister's point. I am glad to hear he is looking at the issue.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. Is the Minister saying he is considering giving carers a full entitlement to the credits that would allow them to get non-means-tested payments when they cease caring? Is he going to move towards that?
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The State could pay the contributions for them in acknowledgement of their service.
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the only workers on €5 an hour.
- Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the findings of the Michelle Millar report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28754/16]
- Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Chair is very amusing.
- Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Michelle Millar report is a damning indictment of the cuts that were imposed on lone parents in the name of so-called labour activation. It clearly indicts the cuts imposed by Deputy Burton as having increased deprivation levels by reducing the incomes of lone parents who go out to work. Will the Minister act on the Millar report, which was commissioned by his Department?
- Other Questions: Labour Activation Measures (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do I get to respond?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Eligibility (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the decision not to grant home tuition to children with ASD between the age of two and a half and three years old unless it is provided in the home and not in a preschool environment as had previously been the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29082/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason his Department has repeatedly failed to provide adequate accommodation for the children attending a school (details supplied) in view of the fact that some children spend their school days in a classroom which measures a total of 24 sq. m, while his Department's guidelines for new classrooms is 80 sq. m. [29095/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Central Statistics Office Reports (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views on the quality of life issues facing young persons that have come to light from the Central Statistics Office data 2013. [22495/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the allegations of institutional abuse and neglect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29071/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Neuro-Rehabilitation Policy (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the call for immediate action to direct a comprehensive revision of the proposed plan for neuro-rehabilitation services by his Department and the Health Services Executive, which is required to ensure adequate funding and co-ordination of these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29080/16]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management: European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management (6 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Commissioner for his contribution. However, I suggest to him that the EU is speaking out of both sides of its mouth on this matter. It is talking about solidarity while, in reality, shutting the doors on the most desperate and vulnerable people fleeing the most appalling circumstances. I did not understand the justification the Commissioner offered for the EU-Turkey deal. It...
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is €25 million in spending.
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This budget is an establishment budget of crumbs and scraps that will make next to no difference to the lives of the vast majority of ordinary citizens. It will, as usual, protect the interests of the very wealthy in Irish society and will further enrich landlords, in particular. It would be a fair, short description of this budget to refer to it as a landlord's budget. Incredibly, there...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Facilities (11 Oct 2016)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to fund the development of the physical infrastructure of a college (details supplied) as has been promised by his predecessors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29454/16]