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School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason we are holding this debate today is People Before Profit-Solidarity asked the Business Committee to put it on the agenda and asked the Government to facilitate the debate. The reason for this is at the beginning of the school year I received communications concerning this issue. It was obvious, though, that Deputies all across the country and from all parties were receiving...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Saturday, I hope we will see thousands of people on the streets at the cost of living demonstration, assembling at 1 o'clock at Parnell Square and marching to the Dáil. There will many people there, including pensioners, trade unionists, students, anti-poverty groups and housing advocacy groups. They will have many different reasons for marching over the cost-of-living and housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the child poverty unit in his Department. [42343/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [42342/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, Actors' Equity, the union representing actors in this country, submitted a petition to the Government of 3,700 actors. What they are calling for is the implementation of the Report on Section 481 – Film Tax Credit, that was published earlier this year. I asked for the committee of which I am a member to undertake this investigation. It has recommended that while we have to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [42341/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Climate action is often very abstract for people because it does not appear to make any difference to their lives. One area where it can make a real and tangible difference, particularly given the energy price hikes and the cost of living, is in the area of retrofitting of people's homes. If we insulate and retrofit people's homes we can save their energy bills to a very large extent. What...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tomorrow, the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, will lead thousands of students from various student unions in a march to the gates of Leinster House. The message they want to send to the Taoiseach is that given the huge budget surpluses now available to the Government, it is absolutely unacceptable if some portion is not used to address rampant, endemic student poverty and, in particular,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with disability will next meet. [41209/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Children and Education will next meet. [41217/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker is paid a minimum of €17 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42625/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 410. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all illness and injury payment benefits to €300 per week, excluding disability-related payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42233/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 543. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to re-instate the funding for transport to and from a location (details supplied) in Wicklow for a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42474/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 597. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the €110,000, which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a diabetes register (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for this new post; if he can confirm if unused funding from budget 2023 will carry over to 2024, while providing a timeline as to when the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 598. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the funding which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a national paediatric diabetes audit in conjunction with the National Office of Clinical Audit, NOCA, following the publication of a detailed feasibility study (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 665. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a full list of those who were paid the €1,000 Covid bonus payment, broken down into the different groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42672/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if the security officers working in vaccination centres and those working in hospitals were awarded the Covid €1,000 bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42760/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Saturday, 7 October, a few days before the budget is announced, the Cost of Living Coalition will hold a national demonstration. Assembling at Parnell Square at 1 p.m., trade unionists, student unions, pensioners' groups, housing groups, anti-poverty activists and many more will march to the Dáil to demand urgent action to deal with the crushing impact of the cost-of-living, housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste listing the Government's so-called achievements will come as cold comfort to the hundreds of thousands of people who are in arrears. If its measures were so effective, why are 256,000 electricity customers and one in five gas customers in arrears? This is before we head into the winter months. People who are in that situation face a terrifying prospect. If it is all...