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Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Security Strategy (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on a position paper (details supplied) which proposes moving Ireland into an EU defence union and reviewing the triple lock mechanism for Irish involvement in EU or other military operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12833/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 240. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address issues raised (details supplied) in an audit of neurology services here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13018/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications his Department received for sports capital funding; the details of those that were granted and refused the funding, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13130/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Relief on Trade Union Subscriptions: Fórsa (21 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Fórsa for the submissions and the witnesses for their contribution to the committee today. I thank Mr. O'Connor for meeting with me last week to brief me on the issue. I also thank the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Fórsa branch which also contacted me about the issue as part of the campaign. The witnesses do not have to convince me any further; I have already...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review the status of pay inequality across the whole public sector in view of the shortage of teachers and health staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13010/18]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the shortages of staff across the public sector can be attributed to low pay and to pay inequality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13006/18]

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The shocking record figures for people on trolleys over recent weeks were further evidence of an unacceptable crisis in the health service. Once again, nurses, doctors and medical experts said we need more beds and to have those we need more nurses. We also need more teachers. The Government cannot recruit them because it is not paying them properly and one of the problems is that new...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is that in many cases, and certainly in nursing, as many nurses are leaving as are being recruited. I had a long conversation with Phil Ní Sheaghdha of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, last week who pointed out that in 2016 the State recruited 2,573 nurses but 2,271 left in the same period. The net recruitment for the health service where there is a dire...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some unions signed up to those agreements because they thought they were the best they could get but they are not happy about it. Many unions did not sign up to those agreements because they consider it completely unacceptable to have a pay apartheid whereby people who happen to be recruited after 2011 and 2012, and who over the course of their lifetime will earn maybe €100,000 less...

Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about all the ones who are leaving?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the recent collapse of a company (details supplied) and previous problems with public private partnerships will lead the Government to review its commitment to such funding models for infrastructure and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13009/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to review all areas of public expenditure with regard to public procurement or grant aid which have employment implications to ensure that employment generated from such expenditure is quality employment and that such funding is not used to underpin precarious forms of employment; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Employment Rights (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures he plans to put in place to combat precarious employment in projects or services in which public money is being spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13008/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the commitment to public private partnerships as a means to finance capital projects should be reconsidered in view of the collapse of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4285/18]

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. After the Business Committee concluded the business for today the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade issued a statement, first to the media and only in the past 30 to 40 minutes was it posted to his website, making what I believe to be a pre-emptive, stupid and reckless decision to expel Russian diplomats without any evidence of Russian culpability for the Salisbury...

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely but that decision has been made in advance of the debate with no provision for a vote on a decision, which I and other Deputies believe fundamentally attacks our international reputation as a neutral country, without any evidence and which is frankly riddled with hypocrisy in respect of the justifications that provided for it.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly will not be agreeing to the order of business unless the Government concedes that there will be a vote on this decision because it has profound implications for Ireland's neutrality and is based on no evidence whatsoever.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, the Minister issued his statement after that decision was made, pre-empting the debate.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are a neutral country.

Order of Business (27 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Tánaiste is proposing is not only unconstitutional, it is fundamentally undemocratic. It is further confusing people on this issue, and frankly, this kind of thing is going to endanger the "Yes" vote for the repeal of the eighth amendment. The Government and the Tánaiste should stop messing around and trust women. This is not about trusting politicians; it is about...