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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Recreational Facilities (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure the continuation of the supervised playground on Library Road, Dún Laoghaire, including a replacement for an organisation (details supplied) to manage the service and or alternative sources of funding if necessary; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Support Services (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if funds will be made available to a service (details supplied) to ensure that it can continue to provide its services to the families in need in the Dún Laoghaire area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43280/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be granted for a school (details supplied) for the upgrading of its boundary fence under the summer works programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42944/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 404. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 244 of 8 October 2019, if patients in need of an upright scan will be allowed to reclaim the full cost of treatment in the UK which is not recoverable under either the treatment abroad scheme or cross border directive in view of the fact that the only available scanner is in a private clinic in the UK; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Data (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 529. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of carbon used in public transport per year; the carbon tax liability on same; the estimated cost of the increase in carbon tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43129/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 628. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if Turas Nua received a monetary award for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43462/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Special Protection Areas (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 659. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the purchase of the lands at Booterstown Marsh for An Taisce will be explored to ensure that when the lease runs out in 2020 the bird sanctuary will continue as a public amenity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43165/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the UK Prime Minister in the week of 7 October 2019. [42161/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council. [42160/19]

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a good point.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The one redeeming feature of the deal is that for now, temporarily, it prevents the worst of all possible outcomes, namely a no-deal Brexit and a hard North-South Border. We all genuinely agree that would be a disaster. That is a redeeming feature of the deal but it is only a temporary guarantee of that because of the consent mechanism. As Deputy Paul Murphy rightly noted, and as...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The deaths of 39 people in the back of a container truck is an horrific and unspeakable tragedy and it should bring shame on us if this country played any part in those deaths. Those people very likely passed through this country. Does the Minister of State accept that the European Union's fortress immigration policies bear some responsibility for that tragedy and for the deaths of probably...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are the figures from the EPA on our CO2 emissions not yet another damning indictment of the failure of this Government to take the issue of climate change seriously? Some 5 million tonnes of CO2 have been emitted above the required targets and this is the third year in a row that we have missed them. From the point of view of the public, crucially, we are now facing fines amounting to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's policy is always to make the little person pay.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever it is, be it water charges, property charges, parking charges or carbon taxes, the small person always pays-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the Government never asks the polluting corporations to pay. They get away scot-free. When they lobby the Government, it states it will block Deputy Bríd Smith's Bill to keep fossil fuels in the ground.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government states it will install a terminal that will lock us into the use of toxic fracked gas for decades to come at a time when, by the way, the British energy regulator has told the Government that it can use British gas up until 2035, by which time we should have reduced our use of that fossil fuel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where are the grants to make it possible for somebody who needs to have his or her home insulated, who is living in a damp and cold home but does not have the money to insulate it? The Government wants to tax such a person because he or she does not have enough money to do the work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government always blames the small person and never takes on the corporations. One hundred corporations are responsible for 70% of global emissions. Where are the taxes on them? Where are the penalties to make them change their behaviour? The carbon tax which has failed to reduce emissions to date is the only measure about which the Government talks. On everything else such as public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is still unaffordable.