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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...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not give excuses. I said there are no excuses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I detest racism or anybody who whips it up. To meet desperate people who are homeless on the streets with hatred and fire is appalling and has to be condemned. I am telling the Minister that I spoke to people this morning in the locality who were equally appalled and oppose absolutely what was done. However, they told me there are many vulnerable people in the area. We need to remember...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also wish to raise the shocking and inexcusable events that happened on Sandwith Street over the weekend. Obviously, there is no doubt that we should all unreservedly condemn attacks on homeless and vulnerable asylum seekers. We should be clear - from talking to people in the locality, it is absolutely clear - that politically motivated far-right activists were down in the area actively...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to advise exactly when and how schools can apply for solar panels on their schools as part of the commitment the Government gave in September 2022 to put solar on all schools for free; when he expects the first solar panels to be put on the first schools under the commitment made almost eight months ago in September 2022; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 264. To ask the Minister for Finance when the help-to-buy scheme will be expanded to help private renters who are facing eviction to buy their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22712/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 331. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when and how schools can apply for solar panels on their buildings as part of the commitment the Government gave last September to put solar on all schools for free; when she expects the first solar panels to be put on the first schools under the commitment made almost eight months ago in September; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 569. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the plan to pay redress to the survivors of mother and baby homes who satisfy the existing criteria; whether he plans to expand the criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22640/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 604. To ask the Minister for Health to advise the reason the podiatry service in the diabetes centre in Loughlinstown Hospital has been removed; whether there are plans to replace it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22393/23]