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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]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question follows directly on from Deputy Moynihan's. I will ask about the forestry programme. In a document I helped leak, and that the Government had not put out, from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Environment, our draft forestry programme was rejected on the basis that it was not doing biodiversity. It very specifically referred to Coillte and the predominance of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach predicting a recession?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is going to be a few years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If you go on daft.ieor myhome.ie and look for rental accommodation, you are very unlikely to find any rental accommodation for less than €2,000 per month and you are more likely to see €2,500 to €3,000 being asked for. Many of the people who would want to rent such accommodation will be over the social housing income thresholds and, therefore, are entitled to no rent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once people enter into homelessness, it is very hard to get out of it. I will respond to something the Taoiseach said earlier. I have raised multiple cases, including that of a woman who is working, ironically, looking after vulnerable children, who has been in homeless accommodation and sharing a bedroom with her son for four years. That is what happens when people enter homelessness, in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We warned the Government when it decided to go through with the cold-hearted decision to lift the no fault eviction ban on 1 April that it would lead to a spike in homelessness. The figures that came out last Friday, conveniently enough for the Government before the weekend but we need to consider them, show a significant rise in the rate of homelessness in the first month after that no...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any rules, regulations, guidelines or studies around the safe transporting of children on bicycles and on cargo bikes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of paying the living wage and the minimum wage to all workers on the CE scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26180/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 704. To ask the Minister for Health how a non-national physiotherapist (details supplied) can meet work placement requirements enforced by CORU for physiotherapy practice in Ireland, given that they applied to numerous hospitals across Ireland, but due to various reasons such as a shortage of senior staff, specific university affiliations and staff shortages following the Covid-19 pandemic,...