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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of all projects currently being progressed by the Land Development Agency; the projected homes to be delivered; the tenure of these homes; the timelines for delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person with an income under €500 will qualify for the fuel allowance in 2023 if they are in receipt of a local authority pension and are not in receipt of any social protection payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48479/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 516. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who will not be entitled to the €1,000 one-off reduction in the student contribution; if he will extend it to all European Union students who have paid fees for the 2022-2023 academic year, whether student contribution or tuition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48488/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhD researchers who will qualify for the €500 stipend increase that he announced in budget 2023; the proportion of PhD researchers that this represents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48489/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of PhD researchers in Ireland; the number of these who are in receipt of Science Foundation Ireland and Irish Research Council-funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48490/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 537. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the results of the review of the atypical work permit scheme for non-European Economic Area fishers will be published; her plans to move these workers to the critical skills list where they can avail of the same rights to apply for a Stamp 4 permission as other migrant workers; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 697. To ask the Minister for Health when the funding for public fertility treatment will commence; if he will provide a definitive date for when persons can access public treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48501/22]

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General (Resumed) (29 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I spoke on the budget on Tuesday night. As I said then, despite lots of highlighted figures and talk of unprecedented expenditure, the net fact about this budget is that the majority of workers, pensioners, social welfare recipients, people with disabilities and vulnerable low and middle-income households will be worse off next year than they were last year. The measures taken have not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The following groups will get no Christmas bonus, no fuel allowance, no €400 payment and no double payment to help them through the cost-of-living crisis and energy price hikes that people are facing this winter: people on jobseeker's benefit, illness benefit, enhanced illness benefit, occupational injuries benefit, maternity benefit and disablement benefit. How is it fair or just...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what they are being told by the Department of Social Protection at the moment.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said earlier, it is completely unacceptable, whether it is €5 billion or €6 billion, that we are disposing of such an enormous sum of public money in the dead of night without proper debate. I have made our view very clear, as has People Before Profit. Other Deputies stated they do not have a problem with the principle but I do. I made this point both at a meeting of the...

Financial Resolution No. 5: Small Benefits Exemption (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We welcome this particular measure and support it. It was much trumpeted in advance that the Government was going to give a serious break to working people. However, as has been said, overall that has not panned out in the budget. Some of the examples provided in the Government's budget book of tax policy changes that were so much trumpeted have turned out to be unfair and pretty derisory....

Financial Resolution No. 4: Special Exemption Orders (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This measure is kind of laughable. I cannot see how a €50 reduction in a €110 fee is going to make any difference to anybody. We will support any bit of relief but this seems laughable, which is probably the best word to describe it. What is less than funny, however, is that the Government has totally ignored the requests made by the music and entertainment industry, in...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit opposes this increase, as we have opposed it every year, because it is yet another form of regressive charge. We are very much in favour of promoting and encouraging and, indeed, financing public health education about the dangers of smoking. It undoubtedly make you sick and ill and it kills you in many cases, if not most, eventually. It is dangerous and we want far...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister’s thing trumps everything.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want the Minister to answer. I am sorry, but that is not a good enough explanation. It really is not. I ask the Minister to think about the words "energy transformation" in the current context. We are facing the most unprecedented crisis. We have heard the Minister, other Government Ministers and European Ministers, one after the other, getting up and saying that this is the moment...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then the Government should get the budget reprinted.

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It states that the allocation for energy transformation has been reduced by 35%. It states that for the Minister's overall Department, which is the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, the allocation has been reduced by 17%. Is that also incorrect?

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (27 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is correct.