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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2022)

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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an energy company (details supplied) has increased energy prices by 313% to customers in a multi-unit development in Sandyford, County Dublin who are tied into a single energy company and cannot shop around; if this is allowed; the steps that the customers should take in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Circulars (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide copies of all circulars that have been sent to local authorities in relation to the local infrastructure housing activation fund funding; the affordability requirements for homes built on the land in receipt of this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will raise the issue of the payment that persons receive on the community employment scheme, given that many of these workers are working long hard hours (details supplied) for low pay and are struggling to make ends meet given the high cost of living; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26442/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if an assessment of needs will be expedited for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25664/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 717. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is advising applicants that reconstitution and underplanting scheme licence applications will be withdrawn by a defined date in cases in which such applications are associated with ash dieback given that his Department is still discussing a resolution with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the dates on which his Department was in communication with Coillte regarding the recently announced strategy and intention to afforest 100,000 ha; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26097/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte roads approved in the weekly dashboard, for week ending the 6 May 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26098/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures will be taken as part of budget 2023 to ensure that all financial barriers for those wishing to undertake further education or apprenticeship courses are removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25334/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know what school they are from but I was going to refer to the young people in the Visitors Gallery as well. I am not sure what year they are in but when they finish school, many of them will be looking to go to higher or further education or do apprenticeships. That would be good for them and also for our society because we need people in construction, medicine, the health...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows our position. We think we should get rid of all fees and all financial barriers. Now is the time for bold moves. We are facing chronic shortages in a number of areas such as construction, education, medicine and almost every area one can imagine. I want to ask about one particular group, though. There is a chronic shortage of psychologists and the result is real...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The question is really getting at barriers. By the way, I think we should get rid of all apprenticeship fees for college, for the bit apprentices have to do in college. There is a campaign on that. I was asked by someone doing educational psychology to raise this so I am taking the opportunity.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Vision for Change recommended that we have 190 psychologists in the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. Currently we have 90, less than half of what was recommended more than a decade ago. There is real suffering for very vulnerable children as a result. Then we have people like Áine who wrote to me, and I have received multiple representations, who wants to do...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures that he intends to introduce to address student poverty and the shortage of affordable student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25333/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The biggest contributor to student poverty is the extortionate cost of accommodation, whether it is private student accommodation built by investors or on-campus accommodation. We are talking well in excess of €1,000 per month in UCD or an even higher amount for some of the newer accommodation. Given that the Minister is giving €144,000 to developers per apartment, is there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The key point is that education is a right, not a privilege. I will go further and say it is now a societal imperative. In other words, every doctor, psychologist, apprentice, arts worker, scientist and engineer we get qualified is making our society better. We have a shortage of all of those people, and many others I am not mentioning, right across the board. It is the State's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but some of that purpose-built accommodation is completely unaffordable-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Costs (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and we have to do something about that. On the fees front, I will make a point about a graduate entry medicine course that I heard discussed earlier. It is one thing for the Bank of Ireland to remove the loan, but people who we need to qualify as doctors should not have to take out a loan in the amount of €15,000 per year at all. We desperately need the doctors in our health...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will abolish all fees for further and higher education and for apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25332/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (19 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will remove the fees for all post-graduate psychology courses and ensure that funding and supports are provided in order that more students are encouraged into this discipline given the chronic shortage of psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25331/22]