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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (30 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to allocate the necessary funds in budget 2024 to meet the demands of an organisation (details supplied) for a living wage for all PhD researchers, regardless of funding source; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15751/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Labour Party for bringing this important motion forward. Last week I raised the case of Gaelscoil Phádraig, one of the indirect victims of the 58 school delays. They still have not got a firm answer as to when their problem is going to be solved. I think they possibly have the record for delay, which is shocking. The school is in existence 27 years. It was founded in...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were encouraged by the Zionists.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. [15154/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Taoiseach a question I asked him the other day in the context of his discussions with his European counterparts to which I never get an answer. I have asked several times and I asked the Tánaiste and other Ministers. The Taoiseach and his European counterparts have within a very short space of time imposed sanctions on Putin and Russia for what is unquestionably a...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department's resource-efficiency action plan. [15153/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Departmental Properties (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to take the Taoiseach up on something he said about the State most likely being slower than the private sector regarding retrofitting and the construction of social housing, for example. On the construction of social housing, there is a PPP being developed across three local authority areas to build a relatively small number of social housing units. In the four-year timeline given by...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You had better give the Taoiseach some extra time, Acting Chair.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely untrue.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should not say that. It is not true. There is not a single country I champion that-----

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not a supporter of the Cuban regime.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I never was.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sometimes it is for years.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It can be four years.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stays are different.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most people cannot stand the pressure so they leave.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [11605/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he is planning to publish a Housing for All report with the final figures of housing delivered for the whole of 2022; and when he expects to do this. [15431/23]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Cabinet Committees (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government may have voted confidence in itself over the cruel decision to lift the eviction moratorium but Government Deputies would be fools if they thought the public has confidence in them on the housing issue. That is why I hope we will see thousands of people outside the Dáil on Saturday at 1 p.m. for the Cost of Living Coalition's demonstration in response to the Government's...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we speak, workers in the Corrib Oil gas station in Ballinasloe are on strike for the third time in recent weeks. They are mostly young workers, including students, some people from the new communities who have come to the country and some older workers. All are on pretty miserable pay. The basic starting pay is approximately €11.30 per hour. They are on strike because Corrib...