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Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Benefit Scheme Eligibility (12 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Health if gender reassignment treatment is covered under the treatment abroad scheme due to long waiting lists here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46516/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach about this matter yesterday and the Minister for Health last week. We need a firmer commitment on this matter. It was stated yesterday that the HSE is engaging on the issue. We do not need engagement. Dementia sufferers and their families need a clear commitment that funding will be provided and the deficit will be made up. Interim funding is needed to avert the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee meetings held in October 2019. [46683/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard the Taoiseach respond to the question about Cuisle, the holiday centre in Roscommon, to the effect that he had responded to it previously, but I did not hear that response. Given the size of the protest outside and the fact that wheelchair users, their families and supporters have gathered in large numbers outside Leinster House today, does the Taoiseach recognise that a mistake has...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy will next meet. [46489/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier this week, Owen Keegan raised the spectre of increased parking charges, increased rates and increased tolls in Dublin City Council, as he saw it, because of the under-funding of local government. In Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown this week, the new Fianna Fáil, Green Party, Labour Party and Social Democrats controlled council increased rates by 3.5%, increased parking charges and,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which he can justify continuing very significant tax breaks to the very highest earners through schemes such as the special assignee relief programme, SARP, and the key employee engagement programme, KEEP, in view of the significant and growing wealth and income inequalities in society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46678/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the local property tax is likely to become increasingly problematic and regressive due to its link to the property market conditions. [46681/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the ongoing controversy in the film industry regarding the requirement to provide quality employment and training as a condition for receiving section 481 film tax relief, her views on whether the employer must be clearly identified as the Irish producer company that applies for the relief rather than a short lived designated activity company...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (13 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Finance if will he consider further changes to section 481 film tax relief in order to ensure that receiving that relief is strictly conditional on the clear identification of the employer responsible for creating quality employment and training and that the said employer cannot be a short-lived DAC company but rather must be the Irish producer company standing...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should do so. Nationalise the lot of them.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the bitter November cold 50 workers at the Delfin English language school have been on strike all of this week. They were forced out on strike because of the refusal of their employer to recognise their right to be in a trade union and represented by it. This is the third or fourth week of industrial action. Where is the employment regulation order the Minister of State, Deputy Mitchell...

Financial Challenges Facing RTÉ and its Revised Strategy 2020-2024: Statements (Resumed) (14 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit strongly supports public service broadcasting and believes we need to ensure the maintenance of public service broadcasting. The suggestion that we may not have RTÉ in a few of years because of inadequate funding is very alarming. This is something that we have to prevent from taking place. We need our national public service broadcaster and we need to have a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many disgraceful aspects to the Government's ideological determination to force local councils to privatise public land and hand it over to developers who helped bankrupt this country, but the aspect of this on which I would like the Taoiseach to comment is the price the State will pay. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Murphy, speaks of stripping...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to these developers who wrecked the country only ten years ago?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Taoiseach sends me his mobile number, I will text him the document.

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to European leaders since the last European Council meetings on 17 and 18 October 2019. [47381/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What action, if any, does the Taoiseach believe the EU should take in the face of the latest assault by the US-Israeli axis on the rights and lands of the Palestinian people? The decade-long assault on the Palestinian people by Israel has taken a worse turn since the coming to office of President Donald Trump, be it the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel through moving the US...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Palestinians?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a progress report on the Climate Action Plan 2019. [47382/19]