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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware in the course of the liquidation of a company (details supplied); if so, when his Department became aware of the pre-pack administration package put together in April 2019 by several financial entities, involving a floating charge loan of £200 million to the company's UK entity, which was...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department is aware that workers of a company (details supplied) were initially told the company debt was €22 million in May 2020, and in July that debt had risen to more than €300 million, and that the workers were also told that the revenues from the online sales of a website would be used in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department was aware that a company (details supplied) had not renewed its 36 trademarks in the Republic of Ireland in 2020 prior to the liquidation of the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Gorse Burning (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment 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 agriculture emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11399/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gorse Burning (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 310. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many call-outs of emergency services there were to deal with out-of-control gorse fires nationwide; the costs of same from 1 September 2022 to 28 March 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11409/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) who has very high level special needs and is in residential care and who has not received a full and specialised education based on their needs since 2020, will receive home tuition or admission to a special needs school which they have been repeatedly refused by application due to lack of capacity and lack of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 460. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the specific additional supports a mother of two children with disabilities, for which she is receiving DCA, might be entitled to including but not limited to a tax credits for a new car; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10841/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline how he intends to ensure the crucial posts across the public sector are filled, in particular in the cities, given the unaffordability of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10594/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has sanctioned a campaign of industrial action due to the unsafe staffing levels we are facing in our hospitals, as it has been saying it would do for several years. The situation has been getting worse and worse. Patient safety is being put at risk. Staff morale is on the floor. This is all to do with the inability to recruit and retain...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is that there is no sense from the Government about the emergency we are facing. The INMO does not take industrial action lightly. According to its statements, the reason nurses and midwives feel compelled to take industrial action is that 10,000 patients were left waiting on trolleys during the month of February. They make this absolutely clear. For example, the president of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What good is it if people cannot afford it?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At that price.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At that price.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This deserves a longer debate but let us at least start the debate. If labour, which is in short supply, is busy building a private development that will cost €3,000 in rent per month, it means the short-supply labour is not building the public and affordable housing. That is what it means in reality when we do not have enough construction workers. We are getting investor-led,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure the National Transport Authority regulations regarding renewal of taxi licences incorporate some leeway on deadlines; if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4807/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on efforts being made to fill posts across the public sector, given the difficulties currently being experienced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10593/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Housing Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the discussions he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the failure of Housing for All to deliver on its local authority build targets for 2022, particularly in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Housing Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the role his Department has in ensuring the progress of the commitments in the national development plan in supporting the current public housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10592/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the progress of NSO 8 in the national development plan - "Transition to Climate Neutral and Climate Resilient Society"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10591/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 15 November 2022, if he will review and correct his previous response where he stated that the procedures were followed in relation to a complaint made to the Ombudsman's office concerning breach of a statutory requirement, under section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007, by...