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Written Answers — Department of Health: Stroke Care (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 331. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to the development of a national stroke strategy with multi-annual funding; if and when preparatory work will be done on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51571/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is acceptable that seven members of the board of a school (details supplied) had to go to court in order to protect the school's playing pitches and the public investment in the school; the actions he will take in regard to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52201/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised with the Minister on several occasions, including by way of meeting, the fate of the playing pitches at Clonkeen College. As the Minister is aware, the Christian Brothers are planning to sell 7.5 acres of land used as playing pitches by Clonkeen College. Seven members of the board of management have been forced to take High Court proceedings to prevent this sale, which will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have tabled several parliamentary questions to the Minister on this issue. In the most recent parliamentary question I asked the Minister for the details of the so-called binding agreement referenced by the Christian Brothers and recycled by him in various responses. The Minister's response was that the Department has not seen the contacts for sale. In regard to the case being taken to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could alter it, for example, by subjecting it to compulsory purchase order. When I previously suggested this to the Minister his response was that the Department cannot do that but it can and does do so by asking local authorities to compulsorily purchase land for school building. I would suggest that the Minister do that in this instance and thus save the board of management...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts he has made to ensure that the playing pitches at a school (details supplied) will be available for the children of that school into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52012/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To continue on the question of Clonkeen College, I find the Minister's hands-off approach on this matter somewhat difficult to understand. I remind him that the Christian Brothers is selling Clonkeen's lands in order to pay redress for child abuse. I ask the Minister if he thinks that it is acceptable that the Christian Brothers discharges its debt for historic child abuse by taking pitches...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first point is that it is not about waiting, but doing. The Christian Brothers claim the contract is legally binding; the school disputes that. Second, whether it is legally binding or not, there are things the Minister could do. Has he told the Christian Brothers that what they are doing is wrong? Of course they should pay their debts, but this sale will raise €18 million,...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So they say.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: God almighty, if ever there were an argument for separation of church and State, we really have it here. That the Christian Brothers can do this to school students to pay a debt for the crimes they committed against previous generations of school students and the Minister says there is nothing he can do is pathetic. The Minister has not answered the question why he could not put a...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach knows how terrorism is defined. Some of our friends in Europe-----

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: First Stage (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is like the Dáil.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What has gone on here stinks to high heaven. Something of absolutely enormous significance about advanced co-operation across Europe to progress the militarisation of Europe and ramp up the arms industry was not notified to the Business Committee and is being pushed through at a few day's notice. A vote is to be taken which, when one looks at the 20 different commitments under the PESCO...

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I think. Why then has the Government told us there is a deadline? The deadline for the Government is the EU Council meeting.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government wants to get it through, so it had the Chief Whip come into the Business Committee meeting to tell us there was a deadline to be met. There is no deadline for joining PESCO. We can apply at any time in the future following a proper debate and consideration. That was simply misleading the Business Committee and it is misleading the Dáil. There is no deadline. The...

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankly, it makes a sham of democracy.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May we table amendments to the Government's proposal?

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I formally move amendment No. 1:That the matter be referred to the committee for next week and that no vote take place in the Dáil until the new year.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The public knows nothing nothing about this.

Business of Dáil (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.