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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 386. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 760 of 26 July 2022, if he will provide the number of houses bought by each council for the amounts listed in the table; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31066/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Pollution (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 389. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the proposals from Uisce Éireann to upgrade Ringsend water treatment plant, including a detailed timeline for this and how it will impact on the protection of the bathing waters in Dublin Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31101/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year revenue that would be generated by establishing a new employer PRSI rate of 19.75% on any salaries paid over €90,000 per year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31000/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year revenue that would be generated by increasing the 11.05% employer's PRSI rate to 13.05% on salaries paid below €90,000 per year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31001/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 509. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can specify the importer and distributor of the 30,000 ash plants infected with ash die back (Chalara fraxinea), imported from continental Europe and planted over 11 sites which he had cut and destroyed by burning in October 2012, as detailed by his predecessor in Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 15 November 2012; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 510. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can specify the location of the 11 sites where his predecessor identified 30,000 ash plants infected with ash dieback (Chalara fraxinea), which he had destroyed by burning in October 2012 as detailed in Parliamentary Question No. 200 of 15 November 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31048/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 511. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will correct his response to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 26 May 2022, in which he stated that "the exact origin of ash dieback disease in Ireland or when it was introduced are unknown", given that his predecessor stated in response to a Parliamentary Question on 15 November 2012 that the origin of the disease (Chalara...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 727. To ask the Minister for Health to make the appropriate changes so that the living alone allowance is not assessable income for medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31119/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 728. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that the living alone allowance is not assessable income for medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31120/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of abolishing third-level registration and tuition fees for repeating students including the associated reduction in the student support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31167/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 805. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if PhD researchers classified as non-EU will be provided with updated residency visas with a four year duration, similar to the hosting agreement scheme used for attracting non-EU research talent; if a recommendation be made that PhD researchers have access to PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31199/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a recommendation will be made on mandating that PhD researchers have access to sick leave and/or parental leave; if a recommendation will be made for PhD researchers to have access to the Workplace Relations Commission in order to resolve disputes with their university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31200/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (27 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a recommendation will be made on establishing minimum standards for the provision of funding for PhD researchers in Ireland, including minimum standards of pay, such as the national minimum wage; and if a recommendation will be made on the matter of employee status for PhD researchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31201/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the recent opinion poll showing overwhelming public support for abolition of the universal social charge; if he will give a commitment to announce the abolition of the charge in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30486/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: An opinion poll over the past week or so showed that a majority of people wanted the hated universal social charge, USC, to be abolished, something that was promised by Fine Gael in 2016. When it was imposed during the economic crisis, it was supposed to be a temporary emergency austerity tax. It was cruelly and unfairly imposed on working people, costing them thousands of euro every year....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is rewriting history in terms of the rationale for the USC. It was not put forward on the basis of broadening tax bases or anything like that. It was put forward as an emergency tax in response to a crisis created by banks and developers and it was imposed on top of the income tax that workers paid. If you earn €45,000 per year, you pay €2,300 on top of your...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have always done that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we did not. On USC?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We never voted for the Government's budgets for other reasons.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Universal Social Charge (22 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not because of that.