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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many reasons People Before Profit will be supporting the no-confidence motion in the Government tomorrow. The most important and powerful of those at the moment is the Government's absolutely heartless and cruel decision to allow the eviction of thousands of families, individuals and, worst of all, children, into homelessness with its decision to lift the eviction ban. In the vast...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the school meals programme to all schools by 2023; and if she will ensure that these meals are of a high standard and offer both hot and cold school meals. [14163/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 323. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline how the tenant-in-situ scheme will work when a tenant’s home is in a different local authority area to where they are on the housing list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15364/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 324. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the targets for tenant-in-situ purchases were assigned, and in particular to explain why there has only been a target of 50 homes assigned to Dún Laoghaire Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15365/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 325. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a comprehensive list of any regulations or guidelines for the tenant-in-situ scheme, and also for the tenant in-situ-scheme where people are above the housing income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15366/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with regards to those families and individuals who were removed from the council housing lists as a result of income limits but who found themselves back under the limits in January when the limits were increased; the exact dates that apply for applicants getting their time back when they are put back on the list; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Bodies (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for the setting up of the Firearms Expert Committee, FEC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15029/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 699. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations that are in place for vaping products; if there is any intention of further regulating these products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15030/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue matter. We are increasingly a country of waiting lists. We have shocking waiting lists for social housing of up to 20 years in my area and we have shocking waiting lists for surgery in our health service. Gaelscoil Phádraig in Loughlinstown has possibly endured the longest wait of all, which is not a record it is happy with....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is grimly ironic that the response of the Government and the Minister of State is that it is "a question of timing". Talk about stating the bleeding obvious. It has been 27 years so it is exactly a question of timing and it is beyond belief that a school could be waiting for 27 years. We often hear Ministers trumpeting the fact that they have approved new schools and so on. What we...

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a big disconnect between what we are being told by those who work in the health service, and those who use the health service, and the tone and content of the Minister's narrative. He painted a very rosy picture of the health service and the success of the Government in addressing the staffing crisis - that is what it is. Every single report we get from people using the health...

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unusual but agreeable.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am waiting for the microphone to be turned on.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just come from a protest by hundreds of postgraduate researchers, organised by the Postgraduate Workers Organisation. The slogans at the protest, which was very angry, were “Research is work”, “Researchers are workers” and “We demand a living wage”. It is shocking that 7,000 to 10,000 PhD researchers in this country, who do innovative and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to address the shortage of teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14160/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is intending to bring in to address the high cost of housing which is impacting on the ability of schools to recruit and retain teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14162/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a detailed roadmap with interim targets for achieving the Government's target of 400 multi-denominational primary schools by 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14161/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the decision to put 58 school building projects on hold (details supplied) has the knock-on effect of further delaying the move of a school from its current temporary location in prefabs to its permanent location, meaning the school has now been waiting 27 years for a permanent home; her views on whether this delay is...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Gorse Burning (23 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 377. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 7 March 2023, the area of land covered by gorse and heather and so on, that has been burned nationwide; how many tonnes of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere from the period, 1 September 2022 to 28 February 2023; if this CO2 is included in agricultural emissions; and if he will...