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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A lot of Members are not here so we could double up on the questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Due to the Victorian decrepit water infrastructure in much of my area - this is probably true of much of the city, but it is certainly true of Dún Laoghaire - when it rains, the run-off water mixes with foul water and the foul water all goes into the pumping station in Dún Laoghaire, which cannot cope and therefore foul water goes into the sea, destroying water quality and making...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the establishment of a Cabinet committee on water quality. [6086/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A more honest answer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Taoiseach's Questions?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is trying to undermine democracy by insisting that the Lowry and Healy-Rae groups can be part of the Government and simultaneously be part of the Opposition-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----taking up its speaking time, committee places and resources. This is clearly an effort to minimise the ability of the Opposition to scrutinise the Government. Another example of that is that this week for the third time, every single week, instead of two appearances by the Taoiseach at Taoiseach's Questions, he will appear only once this week. The fact that it is not a coincidence...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That would further reduce the Government's exposure to interrogation, not just by the Opposition but by its own backbenchers whom it claims to care so much about.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an alliance of the left.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 325. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Central Bank is not acting in a manner that might be complicit with genocide given that the bank is continuing to allow Israel to sell Israeli bonds in EU Member States, despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide and the ongoing South African case at the ICJ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assistance is available to families who go above the income threshold for social housing supports due to the automatic payment of working family payment arising from a reduction in income that year, and therefore lose their cumulative waiting time on the housing list. [7451/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 829. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the means test limits for a full medical card for those under 70 and for those over 70; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7126/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is very interesting. I was not aware the Minister of State was notified. Due to the three days of strike action and the representations of IFUT, the workers' union, it looks as if BIMM has made concessions which it is hoped are satisfactory to the workers. The context here is that 53 workers were told they were going to be made redundant but not because their jobs were gone. They...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear, their strike action, the actions of their union and the fact the matter was raised in this House all put pressure on BIMM to come to the table. It had previously refused to go to the WRC. There is a serious issue here, especially as the workers were working under the auspices of TUD. Essentially, TUD had outsourced this degree to a private company. That contract will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene to protect employment rights and jobs in an institution (details supplied), which provides courses for TU Dublin and refuses to engage with the WRC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7039/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week in the Dáil I raised the plight of teachers in the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, which provides degree courses for TUD in commercial modern music. At that point, 53 of them had been threatened with redundancy and were told they would have to reapply for their own jobs and would be facing big cuts in their pay and conditions. Their union and their strike action...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the preparations and scenario planning he is undertaking to deal with the possible implications for the Irish economy of the policies of the new Trump administration in the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6602/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to amend employment legislation to improve employment rights and job security of film workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6603/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Exchequer Payments (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 227. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual funding from the State to organisations (details supplied); and the way it has been broken down or ringfenced over the past five years. [6860/25]

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.