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Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The law allows this one.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sale by a vulture fund.

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [4699/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Friday in the District Court, behind the Four Courts, five individuals and families - working-class people - are going to pay the price for the Taoiseach’s failure to address the housing crisis. The case of the St. Helen’s Court apartment complex, where a vulture fund is going to evict the families, really tells the story of this housing crisis. They have always played...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a similar issue of rewarding workers who played a critical role during Covid, obviously we all accept and welcome the announcement that front-line workers are to get a pandemic bonus, although it should be extended to carers, as has been discussed. There is no doubt that group were on the front line of the Covid response. What does the Taoiseach have to say, if he is not willing to...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet.. [2221/22]

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will meet next. [4698/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Taoiseach agreed to a debate on the leaving certificate? I want clarity on that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need a specific discussion on this.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since we agreed the Order of Business last week we have had the really shocking announcement of the Government's bloody-minded insistence on going back to a traditional leaving certificate, which ignores the clear call of leaving certificate students for an alternative. Before that decision is finalised we need to have a serious discussion in this House, because there are alternatives. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and stressful leaving certificate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach allow for a debate on the leaving certificate and the options and alternatives for students?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Places (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 42 new schools planned for 2019 to 2022 under the online patronage preference system that have permanent sites and buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4812/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will now consider implementing the call by a union (details supplied) for open access to third-level and getting rid of the traditional leaving certificate once and for all; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4813/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options a taxi driver has to renew their licence in cases in which they cannot get an answer to emails or phone calls to the National Driver Licence Service for over two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5036/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a report on the online patronage process system that was opened in 2018 to decide 42 new schools to include name of school and catchment area, type of patronage of each school; if enrolment has opened on the schools; if the schools have temporary sites or permanent sites or both identified; the stage the building of these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for a building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4856/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full report on all the actions that have been taken to identify a temporary and a permanent site for a school (details supplied) including efforts to purchase or lease a site as well as using any existing site owned by her Department with a list of all the sites that were looked at; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether all lectures should be held on campus including Maynooth University as opposed to online given that pubs, restaurants, football matches, cinema and so on are all back to full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5041/22]

Report on Bogus Self-Employment: Motion (27 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well done to the committee for producing this document on the important issue of bogus self-employment. The first introduction that Deputy Collins and I got to this issue was on picket lines outside building sites on many a cold morning. Some of the first of those were probably more than decade ago, perhaps 15 years ago. It is scary to think about how long ago some of those pickets took...