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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will take responsibility for ensuring fully accessible transport, including door-to-door services, under his remit to ensure full accessibility and that such services would be covered under the free travel scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55083/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 645. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for someone in receipt of deserted wife’s benefit who is not working and not being eligible for fuel allowance or living-alone allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54438/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 712. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an applicant who pays extra costs for a spouse in a nursing home on the nursing home support scheme can have these costs disregarded in a means test for fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55292/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 833. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will request information from the Revenue Commissioners on the total amount remitted by investors of the immigrant investor programme to Ireland before they became resident in Ireland since 2012; the total amounts remitted each year since the inception of the scheme; and the total amount of tax collected from visa...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 872. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total amount remitted by investors of the immigrant investor programme to Ireland before they became resident in Ireland since 2012; the total amounts remitted each year since the inception of the scheme; and the total amount of tax collected from visa holders under the programme. [55084/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Programmes (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 873. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide details and a copy of the second phase of an external completed review report into the immigrant investors programme (details supplied). [55085/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1185. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the specifics that the core home support service entails; the location where this information is available; the maximum number of hours per day that can be availed of; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55251/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is it so unattractive to be a bus driver? This is the question I have. From everything I hear from bus drivers the root of this is that they have to work, and are increasingly pushed to work, very long unsociable shifts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, grand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I just asked one. My very first question was why it is so unattractive to be a bus driver. I am elaborating that question by pointing out that what bus drivers tell me is that it is very unattractive. Those starting out as bus drivers with Dublin Bus receive approximately €6,000 less than other people working there longer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the pressure being put on drivers to do with competition over wages and conditions in the competitive tendering model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is Go-Ahead Ireland having such trouble recruiting and retaining them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just trying to get an answer to a very simple question.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I start with a reminder that the crimes committed by the State and church against mothers and children were crimes from which we, as a society, must learn. This is not just the case in Ireland but globally. Given the long struggle here involving the victims of the various church and State institutions that persecuted, in particular, women and children and, more specifically, working class...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I do not know the exact number - I am not sure whether the Government knows either and if it does not, it should - there are tens of thousands of people on district heating and communal heating systems in multi-unit apartment complexes. They pay three, four and five times the rate of other providers. They have no right to switch to another provider. They are not regulated by the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Relations (27 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will honour the agreement made by his Department to an organisation (details supplied) and introduce amending legislation in order that fishers can submit complaints under SI 709/2003 and its successor, SI 672/2019, relating to excessive working hours and insufficient breaks and rest periods, to the Workplace Relations...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the loopholes around ability to pay rent, the justification offered by the Minister for the emergency period - and it is the emergency period as defined by this legislation - surely exists as long as this House believes that it is an emergency. The Minister, however, has defined it as relating to the winter. Why is it limited from November to March if it is not to do with the winter?...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The house is not like a mansion. It is terraced house. What does the Minister want me to say? It is a terraced house that is smaller than a lot of council houses, if that is what he is asking.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have to get onto the other amendments but the Minister did not really respond to the central argument. I heard the Irish Property Owners Association representatives humming and hawing on "Morning Ireland" when they were asked whether they were actually going to take legal action. They did not sound to me like they were going to take action because they do not have a very solid base for...