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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [10249/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Society of St. Vincent de Paul reports today that it got 230,000 requests for help in 2022, 40% of which were about energy costs. While everybody is being hammered by the energy increases and profiteering of energy companies, one cohort is being even worse hit because the inadequate electricity credits the Government has given to people are not being given to this cohort at all. I got...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Union has made it clear that in developing offshore renewable energy, one industry cannot replace another. I spoke to fishers on the east coast again today and I have raised this matter on several occasions here. They are saying that because the Government has let the developers decide about certain sites, most notably the Kish and Codling Banks, their entire industry will be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not for this project.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is rubbish.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is just rubbish. It is called sustainable and democratic planning.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy O'Donovan would know all about that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline what the eligibility criteria will be for publicly funded fertility care, as outlined in the programme for Government, in terms of age, relationship status, sexuality and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10381/23]

European Union Directive: Motion (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the good guys. That must be it. When they bomb people to bits and kill a million people in Iraq, it is different because they are the good guys. When European countries arm the Saudi dictatorship so that it can carry on a war over exactly the same period of time as Putin has been at war with Ukraine, we say not a word. There are no sanctions and we continue to trade and have...

European Union Directive: Motion (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is interesting that nobody else is here for this debate.

European Union Directive: Motion (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A couple of people are interested then. It is difficult to know what to say about this motion because on the face of it, a motion that calls for consistency in the implementation of penalties for breaching sanctions adopted by the EU seems reasonable. We should have consistency if we make a decision, on principled grounds, to impose penalties or restrictive measures on a particular regime...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for referendums, including the referendum on housing committed to in the programme for Government. [9960/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach be a bit more precise as to when the constitutional referendum on housing will take place and what exactly it will propose? If we have such a referendum, will it be matched by a willingness on the part of the Government to make use of it? One of the purposes of having such a referendum is that we could do things such as introduce rent controls, do something about land...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has not stopped them from being evicted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Loads of people who have done nothing wrong are being evicted.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question follows on neatly from Deputy McAuliffe's. The Children's Rights Alliance gave the worst mark to the Government on youth mental health. You look at the chronic understaffing of child and adolescent mental health services in terms of assessments to provision of therapies, and it is all down to a lack of staffing. Then we make it very difficult for people who want to, for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The ESB is run on a not-for-profit basis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9959/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is literally not a day that goes by when we do not get further evidence of the obscene profiteering of energy companies. The latest, of course, is Electric Ireland finding itself able to reduce prices for business, but not able to do so for householders, and the fact that wholesale prices for energy have now dropped to 18-month and pre-war lows. It appears that while they were able to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent special European Council meeting. [9958/23]