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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...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. Anything that helps develop and supports the credit union movement should be welcomed. The credit union movement is unusual among financial institutions internationally, although not unique, in that it offers a not-for-profit model that is democratic and community orientated and has social and community objectives rather than objectives of...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be honest, successive Governments seem to have been very slow in taking them up on an important offer. I appreciate there is a bit more money in the Government coffers at the moment but it still seems odd that credit unions were often forced, or at least that was the story they relayed to me, to deposit their money with commercial banks when they would very much rather have invested in...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I certainly hope it will be done and I do not know all the details as to why it has not been fully utilised. Perhaps that is a question to put out there, but the Irish League of Credit Unions was clear in making the case a number of years ago, when I was a member of the finance committee, that credit unions wanted to assist in addressing the housing crisis. The Bill includes a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take up the issue I raised earlier. The Taoiseach said he finds my position on offshore wind confusing. Yet, there is a thing called a "just transition". I know the Taoiseach does not believe in it, because his solution to everything is to let the private developers decide. That is what he has done with offshore wind. On the relevant projects, he gives them a free pass regardless...