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Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On price caps.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the European Council. [3610/22]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There were a couple of other questions.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first year of the shared island initiative. [3609/22]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will mention the risk of people dying unnecessarily during the winter, as happened in this country even before the energy price hikes. Every winter, 1,500 to 2,000 people, most of whom are elderly and less well off, die as a result of the impact of winter, the cost of heating and so on. That situation will get exponentially worse in light of the current price hikes. I again ask whether...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national risk assessment published by his Department. [3608/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The €100 to offset the absolutely shocking increases in energy and fuel prices that people will be struck with over the coming weeks is pathetically inadequate. I am already getting reports of people getting energy bills that have increased by 125% in the bills that are going to drop in the next few weeks. The Government needs to do more than it is doing. We have repeatedly urged it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government take the sort of radical action that is necessary?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will talk about that later.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not side with NATO on it.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Tests (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 267. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider the use of an antigen test to allow access to a leisure facility in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin for a child with special needs who cannot attend swimming therapy as their mother does not have a vaccine passport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3152/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 449. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the arrangements he is making for refugees in a centre (details supplied) having fled Afghanistan to have family members reunited with them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3206/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Asylum Seekers (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to move Afghan refugees out of direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 546. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remedy the lack of options available to a person (details supplied). [3016/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the transfer of a child (details supplied) from Sligo University Hospital to Temple Street Hospital as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3018/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 682. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte road licences issued on the forestry licensing dashboard on week 2 January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3000/22]

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad that finally we have a Bill before us on birth information and tracing, the stated objective of which is to end the shameful situation where, for decades and decades, people were adopted and their mothers were, in effect, forced to give up their children even if sometimes it was technically consensual. In reality, the stigma that was imposed by church and State on women who had...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government committed to providing greater security for our tenants in the private rented sector. Those commitments are proving hollow for a group of tenants whose position I have raised on multiple occasions and who are now reaching the crunch point in a multi-unit apartment complex, St. Helen's Court, Dún Laoghaire, where a vulture fund, for no other reason than to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the basic income pilot scheme for arts and culture workers is limited to 2,000 persons rather than including all arts, entertainment and music workers; if she will reconsider this number; the way she plans to choose the participants in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2525/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am taking this question on behalf of Deputy Bríd Smith, who has been delayed in hospital. The question concerns the Iveagh Market in the Liberties. It is an absolute scandal that the building has been sat on by a developer. It is derelict and could collapse. It is an historical heritage site and the local community wants it to be re-established as a market, which could really...