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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will investigate whether a person (details supplied) has applied for home tuition for a person, as advised by her Department; if an EWO can engage with the family urgently; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 863. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for asylum which was made in 2021 is being processed for a person (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27319/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 864. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if asylum seekers can engage in third level programmes or apprenticeships if they have a permit to work but are waiting for their asylum application to be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27320/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 925. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) will be granted their IRP renewal as soon as possible as they have experienced a very lengthy wait and have since been let go from their current employment and cannot access and welfare claims; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28261/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 962. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is reluctant to accept the UN recommendation for countries to leave untouched all peat soils of 10 cm depth rather than afforesting and reafforesting sites with peat depths of 30 cm, 40 cm and even 50 cm deep peat, as alluded to in Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 26 April 2023; if he can at least assure this Deputy that he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will use the opportunity of Budget 2024 to abolish all registration and tuition fees for undergraduate students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26744/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends in Budget 2024 to ensure that all PhD researchers receive a stipend of at least the living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26743/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes he intends to make to student fees in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26746/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Budget 2024 will include measures to ensure that student accommodation is affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26747/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure in Budget 2024 that all three streams of PhD psychology students are fully-funded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26745/23]

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The nature restoration law is a modest thing and, for the most part, we have already agreed and adopted all of its targets and objectives. The controversial issue of rewetting is going to be accounted for mainly on State lands. It is reasonable that farmers who believe that rewetting might affect their adjoining lands should get assurances of support from the Government, but it is certainly...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not know he was coming. We do not even know what affordable housing we are getting or how much it is going to cost for all the money we have put into Cherrywood. The Government needs to get real and deliver affordable housing through the State because the private sector is only interested in making a profit.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and the Social Democrats for bringing forward this very constructive motion on home ownership. I also thank them for highlighting the fact that members of the Government are spoofers when they claim they are people who champion home ownership. Indeed, they are dishonest in misrepresenting the Opposition as people who are not interested in home ownership when...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Gjedrem. That was very interesting. I want to get some idea of the numbers. How much revenue is going in each year? I am sure it varies, but could he give me some idea of what kind of figures we are talking about?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I understand correctly, Mr. Gjedrem says that they only use the returns that the funds generate and that, roughly speaking, the level of the return, at about 3%, is what will then be transferred to the structural deficit. Am I right in saying that the sort of deficit figures we are talking about, which presumably set the kind of spending limits for the Government in any given year, if we...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are ultimately temporary revenues that the state is getting, even if they have lasted for a generation. I do not know how much longer they will last, but whatever it is, there is a certain point at which they will run out and then the fund will run out unless another way is found to replenish it.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not second-guessing Mr. Gjedrem, but I want to be the devil's advocate from our point of view in thinking about this. If, at a certain point, additional revenues cannot be put in, and one fifth is coming from oil revenues, when the oil runs out there is quite a deficit to make up. Why would the money not be used while Norway has it to diversify the economy and try to find other sources...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Sovereign Wealth Funds: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it projected that there will be an economic rent from the offshore renewable investment in the medium to long term, and will that revenue go to the public?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of a recent report by an organisation (details supplied) that found that up to almost half of parents or their children have had to go without heat, electricity, food, clothing or other essential items over the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26006/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of a recent report from a charity (details supplied) which found that 73% of parents think that the cost-of-living crisis has negatively affected their child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26007/23]