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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Student Visas Eligibility (17 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 446. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the contacts there has been between his Department and the Libyan Government to facilitate Libyan students coming here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54170/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (17 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 447. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the waiting times at Irish national immigration service at Burgh Quay; if there is a customer service policy; if there are any plans to improve waiting times and customer service at Burgh Quay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54171/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Remuneration (17 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 597. To ask the Minister for Health the amount consultants with private practice are receiving on top of their Health Service Executive salary in private fees and the measures he is taking to address this. [54101/13]

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough. I will study the Minister's answers to these questions. As Deputy McDonald has said, illnesses like mental health conditions and depression arising from pregnancy have to be considered carefully. The same problem that applies to medical card discretion and probity could potentially apply in this area. I find it problematic that an onus is being put on people to prove how sick...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made general points around this issue in the previous debate but following on from the more specific aspects of this amendment, the figures the Minister gave were very revealing and confirm the argument I made to him earlier on this issue. The area where there is the highest level of absence through sickness is in the health service. That is no surprise. The percentage is higher,...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do. That is exactly the point of being here.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what we are supposed to do, that is, be conduits for the experiences of people outside the House and to bring those experiences into it and, if I might say, to puncture the bubble that sometimes exists around this House, so that the real human reality of how policy decisions made in here play out in real lives is brought back in here. Surely that is the point of democracy. I would...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my naïveté I used to think that public sector reform had something to do with improving the quality of public services. I have learnt definitively with this Government that it means nothing of the sort. This amendment seeks to slash the illness entitlement of public sector workers and amend a Bill that has already carved up the conditions of public sector workers. It comes on...

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is inexplicable and frankly inexcusable that Government will not extend the redress and apology it finally and belatedly gave the survivors of the Magdalen laundries and other institutions where children or mothers suffered abuse to children who went through Bethany Home. It is unacceptable. It is very disappointing that the Government seems to be dancing around semantics, finding...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the introduction of this Bill. I commend the Minister of State and the departmental officials on producing this substantial legislation in an area that is complex, sensitive and vital for a huge range of people who will be affected by it, be they those who were born with incapacities or disabilities, those who developed them, or elderly people. Huge numbers of elderly people...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (11 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide in tabular form the costs of tax and PRSI relief for private pension provision for the years 2006 to date in 2013. [53234/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Cost (11 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will estimate the cost of tax and PRSI relief for approved retirement funds from 2006 to date in 2013. [53235/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In what is a very difficult and sensitive matter the Taoiseach needs to be informed of what he is talking about. There is no debate, dispute or controversy about Edwards syndrome, Patau syndrome or fatal foetal abnormalities. The view of doctors is conclusive, definitive and uncontested, that these conditions are incompatible with life. I know this among other things because I had a...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no uncertainty.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I met somebody from the Termination for Medical Reasons group yesterday. She asked me what the group can do to influence the Government to end the absolutely unacceptable and tragic situation that is being inflicted on many women in this country. I refer to cases in which a woman who is happy to be pregnant and hopes to give birth to a child discovers the terrible fact that the foetus is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are medical conditions. There is no ambiguity.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not likely - it is definite.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In cases of genetic abnormalities-----

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Government-Church Dialogue (10 Dec 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not wrong in what I am saying about fatal foetal abnormalities.