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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I noted the Taoiseach's earlier comments on the need for politics in the North not to be defined simply as nationalist or unionist. Not surprisingly, he did not mention People Before Profit in his list of all-Ireland parties with-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are "other".

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We declare as "other", and since the assembly was set up we have railed against the fact that it is a requirement to designate oneself in that way because it institutionalises sectarianism. We need concrete measures, not just aspirations. I have suggested to the Taoiseach - and we have gone to the extent of writing to him today - how we could concretise the effort to cross certain...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not campaign for Brexit.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not us.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not us.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is hardly corruption to try to save jobs in the North.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Legislative Programme (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a positive suggestion in the context of something the Department could do, namely, take the lead role in the area of disability rights and services. Even today, two Deputies raised various issues of mental health and disability services on Leaders' Questions while carers were protesting outside about what they did not get in the rather miserable budget. This morning, two disability...

Pre-European Council: Statements (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Seventy nine years ago, the Nazis extradited Lluís Companys i Jover, the Catalan President, to Spain where he was executed by the fascist Franco regime for rebellion against the Spanish state. In the past few days, the Spanish Prime Minister has suggested that this action by the Franco regime was legitimate as he commented on the Spanish Government's right to imprison leaders of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the implications for his Department of the recent UN Climate Action Summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42164/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of the €670 million in budget 2020 for school buildings in 2020 that will be allocated to fixing the structural defects discovered in more than 40 school buildings built by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42384/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the education budget to ensure all school secretaries are paid as public servants will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39607/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the €25 million allocated to disability services between the four sections listed on page 112 of the budget book, that is, school leavers, respite, emergency protocols and autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42518/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the additional funds that have been provided in budget 2020 for the assessment of needs programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42519/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (16 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children awaiting an assessment of needs; the number awaiting a report from their assessment of needs nationally by CHO; the length of time each child is waiting for the assessment; the length of time children are waiting for the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42520/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The shameful human consequences of the Government's failure in the area of housing are personified in Sam's tragic plight and are well known. I also want to highlight another fairly shameful failure on the part of the Government in not providing a key public service to citizens. I refer to what is happening in the context of public transport and bus services. Anybody who uses buses in this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is ideology.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our policy is to have free public transport and better public transport. That is incompatible with private sector investment because private sector investment is about profit. The Government has not put more money into Dublin Bus. In 2008, €85 million in subvention went to Dublin Bus and we had 1,200 buses. Today, there is €41 million going to Dublin Bus and we have 1,115...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is in Luxembourg, Estonia-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People always pay.