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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing children's allowance by 10%, and extending the payment until children are finished in full-time education or turn 18 years, whichever is the later; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the respite carer's support grant to €2,500; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23788/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the domiciliary care allowance to €350; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23789/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 363. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing free school meals for all post-primary school pupils in public schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23790/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing free school meals for all primary school pupils in public schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23791/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to all pensioners, to all in receipt of the working family payment and/or a medical card; the estimated cost of abolishing the waiting period of a year for those on JSA, and by increasing the rate by €20 per week; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending eligibility for the household benefits package to all pensioners and to all in receipt of the working family payment and/or a medical card, and by increasing the rate to €60; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23793/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of restoring the pension age to 65 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23794/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all headline social protection payments to €300 per week, excluding disability-related payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23795/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing disability, blind pensions and invalidity pensions to €350 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23796/23]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, found in favour of Ms Jane Crowe, former Debenhams worker and shop steward in Henry Street and, by extension, hundreds of other Debenhams workers who were cruelly treated and let down by their employer, Debenhams, and KPMG, the liquidators. The ruling found that the liquidators did not consult the workers properly and did not give them the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated full-year cost of providing a €100 electricity credit to each principal private residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23529/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for St. Bricin’s military hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23393/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of reversing the 2023 carbon tax increase and postponing the 2024 increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23527/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of abolishing USC for all earners and replacing it with a higher income social charge of 10% on all earnings over €100,000 per year; and the estimated revenue that would be generated by the introduction of this new higher charge. [23528/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of increasing tax bands by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23530/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Code (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of funding local authorities in place of revenue for the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23523/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the resources available to the survivors of mother-and-baby homes once they receive their information; if the social worker quoted in his Department's letter will make themselves available to all who need help deciphering and understanding the information they have been sent; and if he will make a statement on...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is. I am sharing time with Deputy Gino Kenny. I thank Sinn Féin for introducing this Bill, which we are happy to support. Israel is not only guilty of ethnic cleansing, apartheid and settler colonialism on the historical land of Palestine, but it is now guilty of that at Dublin Airport as well. I received an email on 8 May from a young Palestinian woman who was studying in UCD...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The tenant in situpurchase scheme could be in serious trouble if recent examples are anything to go by. We have had Tathony House where, despite repeated requests from Dublin City Council to buy the property to prevent evictions, the owner has simply ignored the council. I highlighted an eviction last Friday that actually took place because a receiver refused requests from Dún...