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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Staff (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 647. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in payments for school crossing wardens for school holidays; if the summer payments will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22211/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 650. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the provisions in section 29 of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22685/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 789. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to reinstate the right of employees to invoke redundancy after a protracted period of lay-off as was the case prior to the Covid-19 emergency legislation with regard to section 29 of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020, in view of the fact failure to do so leaves many workers in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 742. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will allow persons on a pandemic unemployment payment whose work is unlikely to return for the foreseeable future to retrain with schemes such as Springboard without their payment being affected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22213/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 798. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if there are specific financial measures to support small play schools with Covid-19 compliance, for example, to employ extra staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22219/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 979. To ask the Minister for Health if financial supports will be put in place for student nurses and midwives that are unable to work whilst on placement (details supplied); if he will consider increasing the financial supports offered to student nurses and midwives and other student healthcare workers in the longer term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22262/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (8 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1412. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if legislation is planned to further protect animals and pets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21090/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to abolish third level registration fees in view of the fact that many students will not be attending lectures as normal, will have extra IT costs due to online learning and will find it more difficult to find work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22648/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By any standard, the students who enter higher education in 2020 will have a very greatly diminished student experience. Against that background, it is completely unjustifiable to charge the highest student contribution fee in Europe. It is completely unjustifiable to charge students anything at all but to charge them €3,000 a year when they have no ability to get part-time work,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Germany, Iceland, France, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia and the Czech Republic have no student contribution fees. Spain, a country that was hammered by austerity, has an annual student contribution fee of €500 yet we are charging €3,000. Now we are going to be charging that for a hugely diminished third level experience for the class of 2020. Any additional funding is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just pointed out a number of European countries where they do not have a contribution fee. That is the standard we should reach rather than having the highest fees. The level of investment per student in this country for most categories of students is less than the amount of public investment into horses. I like horses but I prefer students. I think they are more important and they add...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except taxis.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need a referendum on the right to housing. I submitted a Bill to that effect, looking to change Article 43 of the Constitution to delimit the rights of private property in order to vindicate the right to affordable, dignified and appropriate housing for all in the last couple of weeks. The Taoiseach should support that Bill and fast-track the move towards a referendum. The scandal of...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill is here.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Imperial arrogance is the stock in trade of the British Tory establishment. Johnson's announcement of his intention to breach international law is very much in line with that rotten and arrogant tradition but it is also a direct snub and insult to the Taoiseach and to the people of this country. It is a reckless and dangerous assertion by Boris Johnson. It endangers peace and stability in...

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Rural Independent Group for putting forward this motion. It seeks to achieve exactly what our amendment to the Bill last week sought to do, namely, remove the emergency power being given to the Minister to make regulations which have not been properly debated or scrutinised in this House penal offences. It is a very wide-ranging and draconian power which we do not believe the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The new pecking order.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The backbencher party, a new party.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We just witnessed another reason the manipulation of the speaking order is very regressive step. The senior Minister has left before the opening spokespeople of four different groups in the Parliament will have a chance to put points to him, whereas he has heard three or four from his own party before that. It is a disgrace. In the two minutes I have left I will say this: the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice, support and guidelines in relation to school reopening that have been established for parents that have serious underlying conditions that would make them at high risk of becoming seriously ill from Covid-19 and that are concerned whether or not it is safe in this context to send their children back to school; and if she will make...