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Written Answers — Third Level Fees: Third Level Fees (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will give a commitment that he will not raise the third level student contribution in budget 2012 or cut the maintenance grant for third level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34844/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 66: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff to his Department; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services, the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will break these details into tabular form. [35717/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff for all Departments of the public sector; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services, the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will break these details on a department by department basis in tabular form. [35206/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 213: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide the names of agencies that provide staff to his Department; the services they provide; the cost to the State of those services, the number of staff they provide; and if he will break these details into tabular form. [35716/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Question 222: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the names of agencies which provide staff to his Department; the services they provide; the cost to the State of these services, the numbers of staff they provide; and if he will break down these details into tabular form. [35715/11]

Mental Health Services: Motion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan on putting forward this motion. This could not be a bigger issue. One quarter of the population are affected at some time by mental health issues. We have all been touched by it. I have been touched by the impact of it as have people close to me. Let us consider the link, although not inevitable, to depression and alcohol-related abuse, both of which...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There can be no question about supporting this Bill. I understand it is technical legislation, the purpose of which is to raise the ceiling for the amount the Irish Film Board is allowed to spend in its lifetime from €200 million to €300 million because it has almost reached that ceiling. All of us should support this straightforward measure as it will allow the board to continue to...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are our banks.

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government, at the behest of the European Union and International Monetary Fund, is pursuing the economics of the madhouse. It is bad enough that tens of billions of euro are being poured into the vaults of banks and pockets of bondholders but the price being paid for this policy is mass unemployment and extreme suffering among some of the most vulnerable sectors of society. It is not,...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nothing has changed and these cuts will make it worse. Education is key if we are to have any chance. The construction of a new DIT campus in Grangegorman has been scrapped when we should be investing in that area. In my own constituency, the IADT in Dún Laoghaire is 1,000 students over capacity because it was expecting new buildings, but the construction of these new buildings has now...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very nicely put, Chairman.

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be as concise as possible. I have a macro question and a micro question. I will not waste time on the debate we have held many times here except to ask the Minister about the larger macro picture. Notwithstanding previous differences we have had in debates on this issue, is there not some recognition on the part of the Government and euro leaders that in the wake of the significant...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a question. In some cases we are going ahead with capital projects that people do not want and the justification for which is questionable while in other areas there are projects that people want and the value of which is not disputed by most people but which are not proceeding. The waste treatment plant in north Dublin is one example. The local authority in my area is proposing to...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should talk to them.

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given that we effectively own Allied Irish Bank and that it is supposed to be releasing money into the economy, why does the State not insist that the bank lend it money at a reasonable rate in order to invest in capital projects?

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I am sure the Tánaiste is aware, up to 40,000 students will take to the streets today.

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Tánaiste, out of respect for students who are concerned-----

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----about rumours that grants are to be cut and registration fees increased----

Order of Business (16 Nov 2011)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----if he will allow for statements today so that the Minister for Education and Skills can give clarification-----