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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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2024 (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been allocated in Budget 2024 to student accommodation; the number of units this will supply; how he will ensure the affordability of this accommodation for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45699/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (19 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills considering the chronic shortage of skilled labour, the reason he chose to reduce fees by only €1,000 and to make this only a once-off; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45700/23]

Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Motion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 3: To delete all the words after "That Dáil Éireann" and to substitute with the following: "— expresses horror at the indiscriminate killing and targeting of civilians in the current terrible escalation of violence between Israel and the Palestinians; — condemns as an atrocity and war crime the bombing of the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in...

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The People Before Profit-Solidarity motion is very different from that of the Government or any of the Opposition parties but it is very much in line with the view of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians. What it attempts to convey is the truth about the nature of the Israeli regime, which is not a legitimate actor or a normal state. It is a terrorist state and an apartheid state. It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach can google the video on this. A number of years ago, Joseph Biden said that if Israel did not exist, the United States would have to invent it. He went on to explain what he meant by saying that the United States would have to station tens of thousands of US troops in the Middle East. Why did he say that? It gives us a little glimpse into why he has gone to Israel today to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, Britain invented it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It busted out of the UN partition plan immediately.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with President Biden. [43866/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach often says there are no instant solutions to the housing crisis but I wish to suggest something the Government could do that could make a dramatic and rapid impact on it. I attended an ICTU conference on housing the other day where one of the other speakers was from Vienna. She pointed out that in Vienna now, 60% of all new developments are required to be social or affordable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The big investors are buying a lot of them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the committee on economy and investment will next meet. [42349/23]

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: First Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."