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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full-year cost of halving public transport fares; the full-year cost of making public transport free for all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36599/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1167. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual cost of the various childcare programmes across her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36598/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of eliminating the reduced rates of jobseeker's allowance for persons under 26 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36591/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full year cost of the HAP and RAS programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36596/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. Keane for her presentation. Is it correct that her analysis suggests that the budget cuts to benefits such as one-parent family payment and child benefit over the past ten years have disproportionately hit women? Is it the view of the ESRI that women who are lone parents and couples with children are more likely to be affected by such cuts? Dr. Keane alluded to tax increases or...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Taking property tax as an example-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does it hit women more?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Gender Impact of Irish Budgetary Policy: ESRI (12 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is difficult to do a set gender analysis for indirect service charges like those for bins and parking or tax increases in bills, if I understand what Dr. Keane said correctly. Is that what she is saying?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 3 October the National Homeless and Housing Coalition, the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, housing non-governmental organisations, NGOs, such as the Peter McVerry Trust, Simon Communities and Focus Ireland and housing activist groups such as Take Back the City and many others are calling for a major national demonstration at Leinster House to demand emergency measures to deal with the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I condemn, unreservedly, any threat or use of violence against anybody by anybody, be it against gardaí or against protesters. Will the Taoiseach condemn the use of actual violence - not threatened violence - against wholly peaceful protesters? Some of the protesters were hospitalised with concussion, cuts and bruises or had to get stitches as a result of the violence of hooded...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----of HAP and RAS, which, I put to the Minister, is massaging the figures.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The number of people in emergency accommodation has quadrupled. We have the shocking obscenity of children and families in growing numbers in emergency accommodation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That policy has failed, and unless the Taoiseach addresses it and stops with policies that continue to hand over billions of euro in tax breaks to private speculators and landlords for land, property and cash, as the Government is proposing to do again with the land development agency-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----it will never solve this crisis and it will continue to get worse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not fair.

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will share time with Deputy Coppinger and we will each have five minutes. Solidarity-People before Profit will be supporting this legislation and the plan to remove references to blasphemy from the Constitution. It should be obvious why we must do it. It is a relic of an old Ireland that we need to leave behind because the special relationship - to use a phrase the Taoiseach used recently...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Licences (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to stop issuing further licences for the exploration of petroleum in view of the fact that Dáil Éireann is in the process of legislating to ban such licences under the Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Pope Francis. [37540/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, will next meet. [37542/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (18 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing accident and emergency charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37677/18]