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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all postgraduate psychology students are provided with funded doctorate programmes and to end the discrepancies in funding between clinical, educational and counselling psychologists; if he will abolish all fees for these programmes to address the chronic shortage of these professionals across the public service; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he recognises the need to remove all fees for and financial barriers to further and higher education given the shortage of graduates and postgraduates across multiple sectors of Ireland’s economy and public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51704/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct NAMA to urgently pay for the remediation costs of the building defects leading to fire safety and water ingress issues at a location (details supplied); if he will ask NAMA for an explanation as to the reason that it has not done this to date when receivers controlled by NAMA in the neighbouring estate reportedly carried out similar...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 382. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the person who is responsible for inviting four separate NATO-connected warships to visit Cork harbour in recent months; the reason that such invitations were issued; if these warships having been welcomed into Irish ports or allowed to use Ireland’s seas violates the Hague Convention on Neutrality; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the State has ratified or signed the Hague Convention on Neutrality (V); the plans that exist for Ireland to come into full compliance with the Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52045/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Cost of Living Issues (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, as an urgent measure, he will look into reforming the need for social work students to do four months unpaid full-time placements, especially in view of the need for more social workers in the country and the current cost of-living-crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51831/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 749. To ask the Minister for Health the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital; the average waiting time for a public appointment with a cardiologist when a referring GP submits an urgent request at the same hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51430/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just come from Trinity College where there were thousands of students, postgraduates and staff members in one of the biggest protests I have seen there for many years. The protest is part of the Union of Students in Ireland, USI, national walkout. There are similar turnouts across the country. To be honest, students do not accept that the Government did anything significant for them...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2023 (13 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that the €400 one-off payment to those in receipt of fuel allowance is extended to those who will become eligible for fuel allowance with the new means test in January 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50098/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that those on so-called short-term social welfare payments will also receive the Christmas bonus and the one-off cost-of-living support; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50099/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rental Sector (13 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has had any discussions with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Cabinet in relation to a ban on evictions, given the current crisis in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50100/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, I highlighted the case of a family with two autistic children who are living in a tent because they are entitled to absolutely no housing support at all, whether that is the housing assistance payment, HAP, emergency accommodation or social housing, because they are over the social housing income thresholds. For about two years now, I have highlighted the case of a mother who...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was my minute. I was watching.

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Labour Party for putting forward this important motion and most of all I commend workers in the community and voluntary sector, both for this campaign and for the absolutely vital work they do for our entire society and most often for vulnerable people, for communities and disadvantaged communities, for young people and for people with disabilities. They are in many cases, the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 232 of 4 October 2022, the reason that karate-class training for children is not “care of the human body” in the same way as yoga and pilates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50440/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all our contributors for their contributions so far. I do not have many questions on animation. Our job is to assess whether section 481 is delivering what it is supposed to deliver. From what I see of the animation industry, it is. They are companies, full-time jobs and industry development. The industry is supposed to be developing and growing and creating companies of scale...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who decides whether they get on?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: HODs decide.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps Ms O'Sullivan will explain to the committee who the HODs are.