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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the German Chancellor. [12790/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, the Taoiseach once again rightly, as we all do, condemned the crimes against humanity of Vladimir Putin in the invasion of Ukraine. The Taoiseach has cited his support for sanctions and so on against Russia, with the possible replacement of Russian gas and energy. The Taoiseach may be interested to know that as one response to this, President Joseph Biden’s advisers are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there were spiralling inflation and cost-of-living increases. When I was briefed by the Department of Finance, it said the war in Ukraine and the impact on energy prices was going to add another 4% on top of that in terms of further inflation. I ask the Taoiseach to confirm that and update the House on it. In that regard, when public servants,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Civil Service Management Board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, will next meet. [11770/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Before the war in Ukraine, we urged the Taoiseach to use the powers the State has under the consumer Act to control the spiralling prices of heating fuels and energy, which are impoverishing huge numbers of people and increasing fuel poverty. There is an even stronger case for that now with the spiralling prices as a result of the Ukraine war. Some of this is being fuelled by speculation,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is horrible, but so is the war in Yemen.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning I received an email from a former member of the Defence Forces who described how at every single military checkpoint he or any Irish soldier was ever at, their safety and our credibility was protected by our neutrality. He went on to say that, lately, we have been picking our fights, and the more we do so, the more we lose our integrity. He asked me to urge this House to keep...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The world is rightly horrified at the unfolding disaster that is being unleashed on the people of Ukraine with Putin's bloody, inexcusable and murderous invasion of that country. Ireland's voice needs to be absolutely clear in condemning utterly that murderous invasion. We need, as I think it is clear the people of this country want, to extend every form of humanitarian assistance and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on his plans in relation to third-level and post-graduate fees; if these fees will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12872/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it makes sense to maintain financial or other barriers to accessing all levels of further and higher education and that all such barriers should be removed including the leaving certificate given the significant skills shortages in a range of areas such as health, mental health, construction, education and others; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on new plans for training and apprenticeship places in all trades that are needed to ramp up the supply of housing across the country; the role that local authorities might play in this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12871/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of his plans to support and subsidise further education students to ensure that poverty does not deter them from continuing their education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12874/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the current plans for student accommodation are providing affordable accommodation for third-level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12875/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Eleanor is 70 years old, is blind and lives in St. Mary's Centre - Telford - Merrion Road houses and apartments. It is the same site she lived in as a child in the St. Mary's asylum for blind girls and women, an institution named in the Ryan report and in the Residential Institutions Redress Act. As a result of a tactical liquidation by the Sisters of Charity, the institution to which we...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 303. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the selection criteria for activation programs for social welfare claimants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12204/22]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the point.

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amnesty International wants apartheid brought into that - additionally.

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including the recent Amnesty International Report: Statements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Brady and I requested at the Business Committee that we would have this debate on Amnesty International’s utterly damning report that Israel is a state that is operating a system of apartheid and that in doing so it is committing crimes against humanity. It called for sanctions to ensure that inhumane and inhuman system is dismantled. We called for this debate prior to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (2 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.