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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 635. 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 if the restrictions will not allow the applicant to carry out the placement in their current place of employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22597/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 636. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to a formal complaint made against a centre (details supplied) based on the rejection of one of the Alzheimer’s patients attending a person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22598/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 637. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the urgent need of a community health nurse assessment by Cabinteely primary care centre for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22599/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 753. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the board will be appointed to the new research body that is a merger of the Irish Research Council and Science Foundation Ireland; how funds will be allocated across disciplines and between blue-sky/fundamental research and targeted programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22725/23]

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No problem.

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is something kind of Orwellian about this Bill. It arises from European Union policy, although it also contains a national element, as has been described, to control the export of dual-use items, technology, things that might have apparently benign uses but can also be used for military purposes. We want to control the export of those things presumably to prevent greater proliferation...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Shortly after 9 a.m., the sheriff and ten private security employees, accompanied by two gardaí, acting on behalf of Ernst & Young receivers and a bank - I am not sure which bank - cruelly and ruthlessly evicted by force a family of four in the constituency of the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Richmond. This is a family of two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has just read out the same note he read out ten minutes ago.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I did not. The transcript will show that I am trying to develop the argument while the Minister of State is just stonewalling because he does not want to acknowledge the fundamental point. This is evidence. It is not just someone's opinion or a political policy; it is evidence produced by the Minister of State's Department and what it shows is that there is no problem getting planning...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would say it is fortuitous.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State's Department said that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, the Minister of State's Department completely ignores the data it collects and the analysis it carries out. The Minister of State continues to trot out mantras without the slightest evidence. I am afraid the evidence produced by his Department shows there is no problem with planning permission. The number of planning permissions being granted is increasing dramatically, it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not me. This is the Minister of State's Department's report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is sort of-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in your report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has relayed to the Government the findings in the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, publication, Housing Analytical Notes, published on 5 December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22158/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By the luck of the lottery I get a second chance to ask the Minister of State about this report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. The big phenomenon the report identifies is uncommenced apartments. It states that the number of apartment complexes that are getting planning permission way exceeds the number that are built. What is the Government going to do about that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has read the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, housing analytical notes published on 5 December 2022, particularly the Planning Permissions and Housing Supply analytical note; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22159/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department's IGEES unit produced a report on planning permissions and housing supply at the end of last year. The evidence it provides directly counters the Government's narrative about planning. The Government says again and again the problem is too many planning objections and that is why we cannot ramp up housing supply. The Department has produced a document that says that is...