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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on her efforts to establish a film stakeholders forum to resolve ongoing disputes and issues across the industry; the stakeholders she has engaged with; the willingness of these groups to take part in such a forum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8678/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts she is making to address employment and training precarity and poverty among workers and performers in the arts sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8675/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if producer companies in receipt of public funds and support will be required to offer training and employment to employees and trainees who were previously employed by the companies to ensure the provision of quality training and employment opportunities on all publicly funded or supported film productions; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the film production underway at a studio (details supplied) is in receipt of section 481 tax relief and Irish Film Board grants; if so, the actions undertaken to ensure the provision of quality employment and training and the full application of employment legislation in terms of recruitment on the production; if the producer...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if efforts to establish a film stakeholders forum have been abandoned due to the fact that some stakeholders have decided to boycott it; if so, the reason some stakeholders are allowed to effectively veto efforts to resolve ongoing disputes across the industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8674/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if unemployed persons are required to engage with Turas Nua or Seetec in order to avoid a cut in welfare payments in view of the recent motion on JobPath passing in Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8902/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Appointments to State Boards (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the State boards and agencies that civil servants from his Department are appointed to. [9304/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Appointments to State Boards (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following on from Deputy Howlin's questions and in light of the debacle around the national children's hospital, the reporting obligations of civil servants appointed to the board require very considerable further explanation, and not just in that particular instance because of the particular clauses referred to by Deputy Howlin. More generally, the issue has arisen with public interest...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the number and type of Cabinet committees held since January 2019. [9305/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Have any of the Cabinet sub-committees discussed the issue of the plan to impose a VAT rate of 23% on food supplements? That plan led people to protest outside the Dáil again this morning. Deputy Gino Kenny and I challenged the Minister on this issue a couple of weeks ago. The response was that it was nothing to do with the Government. It was an issue for the Revenue Commissioners....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I challenged the Taoiseach's answer.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The most important issue facing this country in the event of a no-deal Brexit is the threat of a hard border. That is an issue that is not dealt with in this legislation and we still do not know from the Government what it will do in the event of a no-deal Brexit where pressure comes from either the UK or the European Union to impose a hard border. While other considerations that are looked...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the changes citizens of the UK living here post Brexit will face; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8990/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Brexit Issues (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a non-EU spouse who holds a stamp 4-EUFAM residency permit will be permitted to remain living with their spouse with British citizenship here post-Brexit (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9008/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (26 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 563. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether it is acceptable that Bus Éireann requires at least 24 hours' notice for disability access; if public transport should be accessible at all times under the EU directives; and the steps he is taking to ensure that bus stations that have been given at least 24 hours' notice will have the facility to offer the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Particularly me.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East Peace Process (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights Cases (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 29 January 2019, if, in his continued monitoring of the reports of ill treatment of eight female activists in a prison in Saudi Arabia, he has given further consideration to establishing an all-party delegation to visit these detainees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9755/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights Cases (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Tánaiste to show a bit of moral backbone and commitment to human rights and women's rights. Will the Tánaiste ask the Saudi Government to provide an all-party group from the House with access to investigate the very credible allegations of abuse, torture and unjust imprisonment of women's rights and human rights activists in Saudi prisons?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Human Rights Cases (27 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I brought two Saudi citizens who are human rights activists to Leinster House. This woman and this man cannot go back to Saudi Arabia as they would be tortured and imprisoned if they did. That is what is happening over there. Expressing words of concern and making recommendations is meaningless. It is laughable. Saudi Arabia is on the UN Human Rights Council at the same time that it is...