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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the two-state solution that has failed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, I am horrified by every single death but, you see, the world is responsible for failing to call out the reality of the Israeli regime. It is an apartheid regime. It was set up on the basis of the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians. It has sustained itself through the ethnic cleansing - ongoing - of Palestinians day in, day out, in East Jerusalem, across the West Bank,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a simple question for the Taoiseach. How many innocent Palestinian civilians - men, women and children - does Israel have to slaughter, how many war crimes does Israel have to commit, and how much death and destruction does Israel have to visit on the people of Gaza and Palestine before the Taoiseach will call for and impose sanctions on Israel, expel the Israeli ambassador from this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will the Taoiseach move beyond words of concern, impose sanctions and expel the ambassador of this apartheid, murderous state?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been any reduction in the VAT rate applied to sports and fitness classes in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46309/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a person (details supplied) can take a matter further as advised by the Board of Education when their daughter who is legally blind was refused a place on the basis that she could not complete the visual part of the entry assessment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46324/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Someone does not need to be a rocket scientist to work out why people are dropping out of college. Of course, if people actually studying to be a rocket scientist they would be living on less than the living income, as we know from our PhD students, but we have covered that ground. The Minister mentioned the increase in core funding. The Government accepted that there was a shortfall of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly agree that there is no excuse for universities jacking up rents to unaffordable levels. I was simply pointing out that if they are underfunded, they start to look for ways to increase revenue. They start to operate more like businesses and less like institutes of higher education. However, it is no excuse and the rents are often pushed down because students actually get out and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the sharp increase to 15% in undergraduate drop-out rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45701/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The dropout rates for undergraduate students have jumped very significantly in recent times. The rate is now up to 15%, a shockingly high figure. For example, the number who dropped out in first year across higher education was up to 5,000, an increase from 9% to 12%. There are a range of reasons for this, including the cost of accommodation, transport, having to travel long distances,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister said he just cannot increase the figure to €25,000.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why can he not do that? I do not accept he cannot. The research and development tax credit is worth €750 million a year in most cases to multinationals. I would much rather give our PhD researchers a living income and cut slightly the money going to the most spectacularly profitable companies in the world, and the Minister would have plenty of money. In our budget submission, we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister clarify whether PhD researchers are treated like workers? Members of the Postgraduate Workers Organisation are in the Gallery and this is another issue they have asked about. If a PhD researcher has the same status as a worker, they should get sick leave and all the other entitlements a worker gets, given they are workers and without them our universities and other third...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will, in light of the independent national review of State supports for PhD researchers, review his recent announcement and bring the stipends of all PhD researchers, not just those funded by Science Foundation Ireland, SFI, and the Irish Research Council, IRC, up to the living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45985/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier this year, the Minister made a commitment to make Ireland one of the best places to do a PhD. In the recent budget, he failed to live up to that commitment. He provided for an increase to €22,000 a year in the stipend, but that applies only to PhD researchers funded by SFI and IRC, who make up fewer than 30% of the total. The payment is still well below a living wage or the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the progress she has made in convening the film industry stakeholder forum as recommended in the recent report by the budget oversight and scrutiny committee on section 481 film tax credit and the Irish film industry. [45790/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether she supports the calls of representatives of actors, writers and directors for an end to use of buy-out contracts by film producers as a condition for those producers continuing to receive public funding for film productions in Ireland. [45792/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what further actions, if any, has she taken to address the concerns repeatedly raised by representatives of actors, writers, directors and film crews in relation to their remuneration, conditions and contracts of employment and the failure of film producers in receipt of public funding to meet the requirement of quality...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht what action, if any, she intends to take to ensure recognition of service of film crew in the Irish film industry and to address the vulnerability of film crew to black-balling given the ongoing use of successive fixed-term contracts for the employment of crew by film producers who are in receipt of public funding for film...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address precarious work in third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45702/23]