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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the extent of the violent suppression of democracy in Bahrain; if there is a reason that Ireland is silent on human rights violations there; if Ireland is willing to take a hard stance against these abuses through a joint statement and resolution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15237/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for new secondary schools in Cherrywood, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15242/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for Gaelcholáistí and non-denominational secondary schools in the south County Dublin area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15244/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has or will pay full PRSI contributions for all those who were in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment over the course of the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to establish a working party to investigate the needs of persons living with Huntington’s disease and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15203/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information regarding the scholarships or grants that are available in Ireland for a Palestinian student who is hoping to undertake an MSc in human anatomy here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15169/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to establish a working party to investigate the needs of persons living with Huntington’s disease and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15204/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department issued 70 more licences to Coillte than to the private sector for February 2022; if this trend will continue in March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15195/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte felling licences in the backlog; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15196/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of felling licences his Department must issue to the private sector each week from 1 March 2022 to 31 December 2022 in order to achieve his targets as set out in the recent licensing plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15197/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte felling licences included in his Departments dashboard for the week ending 4 March 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15198/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank our contributors from the Central Bank. On the last point about the nature of the energy price increases, Europe has substantially increased its renewable energy production. I think I am correct in saying that 2020 was the first year in which the majority of electricity in Europe was produced renewably. We have actually increased the renewable energy supply in Europe and in this...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. Cassidy. I think there are important implications of this. In a globalised economy, the owners of the energy supplies are really the shareholders, who are not limited. The companies will be based in a particular country, whether that is BP or Shell in Britain or Aramco in Saudi Arabia, but people with additional wealth in this country buy shares in these companies. I often...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not saying it was just that, I was just giving that as an example. This predates Covid. The Central Bank's reports show a consistent increase in net household wealth for the past ten years or so, with fairly dramatic increases pre-Covid. It is interesting that is happening. Most people, particularly with the increasing rate of inflation and so on but even more generally, will not...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the housing aspect, we all agree that it is an absolute priority to address the housing crisis. What is the Central Bank's view about our ability to do that? Even pre-Ukraine, we were reaching the point where rents are completely unaffordable for most people, house prices are completely unaffordable, and the cost of construction has reached a point where the market at least is not really...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is one other thing. Dr. Cassidy quoted some statistics there on the distributional impacts of inflation on different deciles of the population or whatever. Was that a document? I was trying to find it on the bank's website.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but the officials will send it to us as well.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chairman.

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Bríd Smith, Paul Murphy and Barry. We are happy to support the Sinn Féin motion on energy price increases and the proposed measures, but we also will move an amendment to the motion that the Government needs to use the powers it has under the Consumer Protection Act to put caps on prices to declare an emergency in respect of the supply of energy and...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The world is disgusted and revolted at what Vladimir Putin is doing, his bloody invasion and the imperialist logic behind it. Rightly, people's hearts go out to the people of Ukraine and they want to show all the solidarity they can. The best hope is that the resistance of the Ukrainian people, alongside the opposition of the Russian people to this...