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Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15: In page 4, line 27, to delete "13 July 2021" and substitute "12 April 2022".

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16: In page 4, to delete lines 35 to 39 and substitute the following: "(i) specifies a termination notice that falls at any time during an emergency period, and (ii) cites as reason for the termination any of the grounds listed in section 34 of the Act of 2004.",". I know time is short and we want to vote on this and the issue in section 2. This is a specific...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the pandemic supports available to businesses trading under €50,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16209/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options a person (details supplied) has to renew their stamp 4 spousal visa which is due to expire at the same time as their passport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16215/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a direct question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet committee dealing with education. [15559/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Before I came in here, I spoke to the principal of a DEIS band 1 school in my area, Scoil Cholmcille, which was one of 281 schools that applied for the new hot school meals programme. The school was most disappointed not to have been selected for the programme. It is in a highly disadvantaged area. It seems that quite a few non-DEIS schools were approved for the hot school meals programme,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The scheme costs very little.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [13268/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just read the NPHET letter. It correctly states we are in a very fragile and precarious position, as a result, in my opinion, of the Government refusing to impose the mandatory quarantine that NPHET asked to be introduced. The Government still refuses to do it for a majority of countries. Whereas the vast majority of people adhered to public health guidelines, enduring immense...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it next plans to meet. [15560/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Covid-19 has further underlined the need for proper mental health services. We have thousands of adults and children waiting for assessments and services. I spent an hour on the phone last night to a young student studying to be a psychologist. She told me a tale of woe about the plight of people studying to be psychologists and trying to get on doctorate training programmes to be...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The People's Vaccine campaign, which is supported by 80 countries, many NGOs, the UN Aids programme, Oxfam and others, published a survey of epidemiologists, immunologists and infectious disease specialists in 28 different countries, 88% of whom predict that within nine to 12 months, variants of Covid-19 will have evaded the first generation of vaccines. That is a very stark warning. In...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [13267/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain his reported remarks on 4 March 2021 in which he warned of increased taxes post the Covid-19 pandemic; if he is considering specific tax increases; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17198/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance the ongoing efforts being made by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to ensure full compliance by film production companies with the conditions attached to receipt of section 481 film tax relief particularly following a recent ruling by the scope section that one of the regular recipients of section 481 over many years was found to have wrongly...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 339. To ask the Minister for Finance if companies that operated the TWSS can seek to demand payments from their workforce if their employees were marginally better off in their net take home pay as a result of the way in which the scheme operated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16889/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Waterways (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 488. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Inland Waterways Ireland has announced that it plans to sell off the site of the graving dock in Ringsend, Dublin 4; if he will ensure that in the event of the sale proceeding that the price will not fall below the €20 million value that he has placed on the site; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Waterways (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 489. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure financial support to develop the graving docks Ringsend, Dublin 4 as a heritage site and that could be used to develop apprenticeships on boat repair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17045/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Waterways (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will request Dublin City Council to consider diverting some of the funds that had been earmarked for the white water rafting facility to developing a heritage site and amenity for the local community at the graving docks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17046/21]