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European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are only two questions and we have a while so we will give plenty of time to the Minister of State to reply. I want to press the Minister of State on the question of the nerve agent and the evidence on which the decision to expel a Russian diplomat was based. It was done on the word of British intelligence services, or perhaps it was that of the British Government alone, and then...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Travel (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent visit to China; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14029/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent report that Israel is responsible for a 2007 air strike on a Syrian nuclear reactor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14032/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the issue of the continued incarceration of a person (details supplied) in an Israeli prison and the recent ruling against an open trial with his counterparts across Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14031/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the UNHCR reports presented at the recent Human Rights Council that outline the way in which living conditions across the West Bank and Gaza have worsened in particular for children over the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14030/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent trip to the United States of America and the meetings he had there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11336/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will consider calling in the Russian Ambassador to discuss the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Syria and eastern Ghouta; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11337/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (28 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the rate of PRSI payable is the same for S class self-employed persons at 4% and A1 class employees; if so, the reason they are not entitled to the same social welfare benefits, in particular jobseeker's benefit; her plans to extend the same benefits to self employed persons; and if she will make a statement on the...

Appointment of Members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The role of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is critical. It needs to be completely independent of Government in order that it can, where necessary, and independent of any Government pressure, make critiques of any Government failure to uphold human rights or equality principles. The State has failed very badly in many of these areas. I ask the House to think of the plight of...

Appointment of Members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in the process of selection.

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The truly appalling rise in homelessness figures, especially child homelessness figures, should lead the members of this Government to hang their heads in shame at the hardship and suffering inflicted by the Government's failed policies on the 10,000 people now suffering homelessness, particularly for the children who suffer. The numbers of children in homelessness are increasing month on...

Affordable Housing: Statements (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or misrepresent people, as the Deputy did earlier.

Topical Issue Debate: Ardmore Studios (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an absolute disgrace that we discover on RTÉ and in newspapers over the weekend that a key part of Ireland's cultural and cinematic heritage has been sold. We hear that the State has sold its share in a deal in which none of the details have been scrutinised and we have no idea about guarantees to protect the future of Ardmore as a film studio. Incredibly, €7 million has...

Topical Issue Debate: Ardmore Studios (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely disgraceful that we have sold off the State's holding in Ardmore. We have fully privatised it to the benefit of a company which appeared like a mushroom. That is a feature of the film industry where the companies that receive all the State money appear like mushrooms and then disappear just as quickly. The culture committee has heard testimony from representatives of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Facilities (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the recent efforts he has made to assist a school (details supplied) in its ongoing campaign to ensure the future of its playing pitches; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14273/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there should be a move towards the elimination of all third level education fees in the interest of ensuring accessibility for all to further education (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14272/18]

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if they cannot afford it.

Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The wonders of the market.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A - economy will next meet. [16370/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems to me that the most elementary function of a government in order to have a functioning economy is that its citizens can exist in that economy at the most basic level. Students from Dublin City University, DCU, gathered outside Leinster House today because they have been asked to suffer an increase in rent from €4,500 per year to €8,700. For many that means they will...