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Development of a Liquefied Natural Gas Facility in Ireland: Statements (3 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is all fracked gas.

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We needed a radical budget to deal with the threat of a no-deal Brexit, the disastrous housing and homelessness crisis, the crisis in our public health system, the climate emergency, the astronomical cost of childcare and the woefully inadequate disability and respite services, among a whole range of other areas. We did not get a radical budget or radical action on any of these crises,...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mortgages are cheaper than the rents being charged in Dublin. How wealthy does one have to be to pay the average rental price in Dublin of €2,000, or €2,200 in my area, or even €2,400 a month? Who can afford that? Of course there is a group of people making money out of it. What is the Government doing to tax them? It includes the vulture funds, the cuckoo funds and...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is where all the extra money being crowed about by the Minister of State is going. The number of real council houses being built is abysmal and everything else is money going out the door into the pockets of NAMA developers that have been rehabilitated, vulture and cuckoo funds and big corporate landlords. They are making a killing. This budget has nothing about rents. What has...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It may not have been. I may have the country wrong. It was Russia, and it is not a bastion of anything good but at least it can provide cheap public transport. Instead of punishing people with carbon taxes, we should reduce people's fuel bills with a major national insulation installation programme. The current system is grossly unfair for people living in public housing as they cannot...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, are we debating Financial Resolution No. 1 only?

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From the feedback I have got from outside this House, people are saying that this budget gave nothing, or less than nothing, to workers, pensioners, students or social welfare recipients but it hit people with increased prices on cigarettes and a regressive and unfair carbon tax. That is the truth. Punishing people for having an addiction is not the way to reduce smoking. Perhaps giving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has had their shared access to a SNA withdrawn for the 2019-20 school year in view of the fact that the person still has a recommendation for one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40513/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider purchasing an upright MRI scanner here and failing that if he will allow patients in need of an upright MRI scan to travel to the UK and reclaim the full cost under the treatment abroad scheme, which currently does not cover it as it is only available in a private clinic in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40744/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 467. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will meet with this Deputy and a person (details supplied) to discuss older workers and community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40714/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Meters Installation (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 495. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Irish Water is no longer installing domestic water meters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40549/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (9 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role her Department has played in the Mercosur and Ireland-US trade deals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37382/19]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of his plans to provide free contraception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41365/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is no problem for me.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to speed up access to assessment of needs for children to bring it in line with the statutory requirements to ensure the waiting list is no longer than three months and is completed in six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41366/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with church leaders on 4 July 2019. [38539/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I understand it, if the Northern Irish Assembly is not up and running by 31 October, legislation passed in the British Parliament will require the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to the North. This would be a long-overdue vindication of the rights of women in the North, who have been denied the right to abortion and to control their own bodies. It would be a good thing,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [41382/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the day of the budget, I stated that it had effectively cut the incomes of workers, pensioners, students and those in receipt of social welfare such as disability allowance and carer's allowance. That regressive character of the budget and the injustice that the Government foisted on the vast majority of people under cover of the Brexit drama was confirmed by the ESRI, among others, at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not the People Before Profit alternative.