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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will have some of the other groups in again to discuss this. I want to follow it through with everyone here. Is there a conflict of interest in the fact that one person - I should not mention a name or I will be rapped on the knuckles-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----owns one third of Ardmore Studios and is also one of the owners of Troy Studios. There is something of a conflict of interest there. Certainly, fears have been expressed to me that Ardmore is being run down in favour of Troy. I want to see all of these studios flourish, but I put it to the witnesses that there is a problem if the same person has the biggest stake in Troy and something...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Anyone who wants to answer it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a brief supplementary and as a matter of curiosity, is "Into the Badlands" filmed up in the old Dublin Sports Hotel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is it up there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure, although I could talk for hours about this as the topic is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will ask two questions, one of which will be on the central issue of continuity of employment for the people who are affected by precarious work. As Ms O'Loughlin indicated, there may be people at a very high and specific skill level who can pick and choose. Let us call it what it is. In the same way, a few A-list stars can pick and choose their movies. However, that is not the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just before Christmas, the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, promised legislation to deal with zero-hour contracts and other problems. As we know, workers in their tens of thousands are on if-and-when contracts or in precarious employment, and sectoral agreements are not being adhered to. Yesterday I met workers working on the historic Boland's Mills site which is being run by a contractor...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will that legislation come in to secure the rights of workers so that they are not being exploited and abused?

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move Amendment No. 3:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann notes that” and substitute the following: “— the number of individuals or couples with a housing need that are neither eligible to apply for social housing because of the low income thresholds, nor able to afford to purchase a private home at current prices, far exceeds the approximately...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Property (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, the board, students, parents and teachers of Clonkeen College were shocked and dismayed to discover last May that the Christian Brothers intended to sell their school playing pitches to property developers, despite previous promises from the Christian Brothers that the fields would be given to school in perpetuity as long as it continued to exist. Some €450,000...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Property (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Expressions of concern about this are not enough. We have an extraordinary situation which could have been resolved if the Minister told the Christian Brothers that it is not taking the pitches to pay off the redress scheme because that is punishing future generations of kids for the crimes of the Christian Brothers against past generations of kids. The Minister should have done that at the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legal Proceedings (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of the court case scheduled to begin on 15 March 2018 between a school (details supplied) and a trust with regard to whether the sale of the playing pitches at this school will be underwritten; if the school will be supported in its efforts to keep the pitches for use by students into the future; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the implication of the collapse of a company (details supplied) is that all PPPs should be taken back into public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Creative Ireland Programme (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a theatre in education organisation; his further plans to design a programme for bringing professional theatre makers into the classroom as has been done with the music generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5289/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met. [5691/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My main question is about Palestine but I will briefly ask about the united Ireland issue. I agree with having the committee but if we want to further the drive towards Irish unity, we need to immediately separate church and State, get our schools and hospitals out of the hands of the Catholic Church and do something about the appalling lack of a universal, proper national health service...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach to set out his Department's priorities for 2018. [3091/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many priorities one could talk about but I want to focus on one of them. I believe the Cabinet is, sadly, 11 years on, still discussing the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. I hear that we are close to the moment when the Government will ratify it. While I hope that happens, I want to know what the Taoiseach intends to do to actually...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the pay was better we would get the workers.