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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a firm timeline for the move of a school to a new site (details supplied); and to outline the issues if any to ensure a timely move from the current to site to Ballyowen-Meadows. [45107/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full details of all unfilled posts across the Dún Laoghaire constituency, by school. [45108/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1071. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 256 of 2 October 2024, when a reply will issue from the HSE to the request to provide a report on the number of sanctioned whole-time posts in the Ireland East Hospital Group in September in 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024; the details of whether these posts are filled or vacant and,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1162. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 2 October 2024, when a decision will be made on the business case for the CT scanner which was submitted to HSE in 2023 for St. Michael’s Hospital in Dún Laoghaire; the reason the decision is taking this long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the guidelines around SUSI grants to automatically ensure that all mature students are assessed as independent even if they are living with a parent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43924/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the stipulation in the guidelines for SUSI grants to ensure that the “first point of entry” requirement for assessment is changed to ensure that if an applicant’s circumstances change over their years in college, they can be reassessed to take into account new circumstances, including details of a change...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (5 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow SUSI to have a discretionary role in assessing applications as not all circumstances fit easily into criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43926/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another day, another massacre by Israel in Gaza. In the latest attack, 17 people were killed in a school-turned-shelter in Nuseirat. Among those murdered are Mamdouh, 11 months old; a five-year old, Malak; a seven-year-old, Hamad; an eight-year-old, Mahmoud; Moatassem, nine years old; and many others. Clearly, Israel is not going to stop murdering, killing and massacring until it is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could it be facilitated?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to increase paid sick leave days to seven days, from 1 January 2025 as previously promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43535/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Film Industry (24 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he has had any recent engagements with stakeholders in the Irish film and audiovisual industry about improving income, employment security and other rights to those working in the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43537/24]

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are putting all these extra billions into the LDA and it is just to deliver the existing plan. Is that what the Minister of State is telling us? It is for the existing plan. This is not linked to what everybody knows has to happen and which the Government itself knows has to happen, which is a dramatic upscaling of the targets necessary, which inevitably means a dramatic upscaling of...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy enough to support this extra capital going towards the LDA, but I would rather that the LDA were something other than what it is. We have argued for some time it should be a fully fledged State construction company. That is the only way we will reach the level of output of social and affordable housing necessary to address the absolutely dire housing crisis we are facing. The...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not talking about them.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just going to comment briefly. I would bring the rate down to zero to be honest. I just do not see why these providers should make a profit. We are probably not going to get into this debate, but I cannot understand how a Government committed to universal, single tier healthcare can think it is acceptable these companies are making any profit at all. I cannot see how they are...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely, and in healthcare more than anything. I am just using this opportunity to say this, because unless there is an intention to get rid of that at some point, the Government is perpetuating a fundamentally iniquitous situation where these companies are, essentially, exploiting people's vulnerability for profit.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Excellent

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to hear the Minister's response about the charging and the margin.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who will pay the margin?