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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 380. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the defective apartments and duplexes redress scheme will be enacted; if retrospective applications for redress will be included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29324/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how a person (details supplied) may gain immigration status given that their stamp 1G visa has expired and they wish to continue working in Ireland with no need to pursue further education, but they have been refused a working permit on the grounds of immigration status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29141/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if money granted by Caranua to a survivor of an institution that was to be used only for household goods, but not yet used may still be claimed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 563. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 16 May 2023, the reason for the removal of the service; if there is an intention to replace the service; if not, where else the service might be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29079/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE has plans to fund the drug, dupilumab which is used to treat a form of asthma, under the reimbursement scheme; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29408/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not on that. It is convenient for you.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Relations (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like the Taoiseach to comment on the imprisonment of Mr. Rached Ghannouchi. He is the elected Speaker of the Tunisian Parliament. I met his son at a Palestinian solidarity conference in Oslo a few weeks ago. He is very worried about his father because he is 81 years old. Mr. Ghannouchi is a renowned human rights activist and writer and was a central figure in the Arab Spring....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were just attacking her bias.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a shocking statement.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a shocking statement.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was a disgraceful comment.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a shocking comment regarding the jackboot.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So do we.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was disgraceful that it was said we were Putin's puppets.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Policy (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, we did not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (15 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a huge irony in people who oppose a two-state solution in Ireland supporting it in Palestine. Nobody believes partition is an acceptable solution here, yet somehow we think the ethnic and racist partition of Palestine is a solution. Nobody in Palestine believes that any more. They increasingly recognise that the Oslo Accords were a smokescreen through which Israel would continue...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As an urban Deputy, I am obviously very conscious that I do not have the day-to-day experience of what is happening in rural Ireland. In that regard, I have to rely to a large extent on insights from those whose judgment I trust. As a result, some of what I will say will reflect what I have heard from people who are living in rural Ireland and who have particular views about what is going...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some 30% of it is in the southern region. The areas that have the least of it are the west and north, which has only 14% of the wealth. As can be seen, there is a stark inequality in the distribution of wealth.

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: However, if you marry that with some other facts that we saw in the Teagasc survey on farm incomes published in recent days, you can see that average farm incomes vary radically. Again, there are gross and shocking inequalities. The average dairy farmer has an income of €97,000. I am sure there are plenty of medium-sized dairy farmers who do not have that size of income, so we can...