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- Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to a company that did not exist and Revenue had allowed that to happen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not say that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: She did not say that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach meets them a fair bit in the Clearing House Group as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They still pay their taxes, do they not? Is that too much to ask?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: World Economic Forum (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because the Deputy wants to go.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing last met. [4125/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know whether the committee has or will discuss several very specific areas of housing. People who do not have drug or drink problems, or who are trying to recover from alcohol or drug problems and are clean of them, are being put in emergency accommodation with active drug users or people with addiction problems. I am dealing with several cases of this nature at present. It is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are you going to do anything about it? That is what I asked.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will let those who are on the committee deal with the more technical point that seems to be raised, if they can answer it. Clearly, the suggestion that amendment No. 10 is removing protections is absolutely not the intention. It is also not entirely clear that is what it does. As I understand it, it leaves in place some of the existing legislation, which should be amended.
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To deal comprehensively with all the legislative aspects of trying to decriminalise sex work, which is the intent of our amendment, one would require further amendment of the 1993 Act. We take that point, but I do not think the suggestion that what we are doing is removing protection is correct. Deputy Catherine Connolly and others might add to what I said in that regard. On the substantive...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is just not deleting it. That is slightly different.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Health the action he will take to cease the downgrading of emergency services at University Hospital Waterford consequent on the lack of 24-7 emergency cath lab facilities and the contingent transfer of patients to Cork and Dublin; if he will cease the ad hoc regional service planning between his Department, the HSE and hospital groups and ensure that local...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 99. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which parents of a child with a medical condition known to respond therapeutically to treatment with a cannabis based product can apply to have that product made available to their child in a prompt manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4616/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the date for the opening of a new operating theatre in Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children, Crumlin to deal with children waiting for operations (details supplied); if he will order an independent review of scoliosis services here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4620/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assure parents of children with disabilities that their assessments of needs will be completed on time, as per the Disability Act 2005; if the statements of need will be completed on time and implemented by the HSE promptly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4618/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (1 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a SUSI grant. [4811/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (2 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of tourism and hospitality skills training positions allocated to the Dún Laoghaire constituency in 2015 and 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4993/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (2 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding that was allocated to the Dún Laoghaire constituency for tourism and hospitality skills training in 2015 and 2016 by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4994/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Development (2 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the agency or Government body which has oversight and responsibility for hospitality and tourism skills development policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4995/17]