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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach ask the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to meet musicians in that regard?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I get an answer about musicians?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the newly published response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2021. [60208/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not agree with the language-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I was about to say was that I do not like the language of competition in terms of a sustainable economy but nonetheless some of the matters discussed in the document are important. This relates to my previous point about musicians. If we do not support key sectors such as music and culture, we will really pay for it. I ask the Taoiseach to look at that because although some venues are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government needs to get clear information out to people whose incomes and employment are impacted as we head into Christmas. I do not know how many times in the past two years I have raised the issue of the plight of musicians and entertainers. They are in a dire state at the moment because the public health measures and restrictions and the voluntary decisions of many people to scale...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know the answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers are asking me if they are ever going to get a pay increase on those miserable levels of wages.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was legally challenged.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister was supposed to sign off -----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He could have done so before. He was supposed to sign-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He was supposed to sign off in the summer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A sustainable economy as referred to in the strategy requires at the very least that the earnings of workers keep pace with inflation. With inflation running at approximately 5%, many people are limited to 1% pay increases and some are getting nothing. Workers are in effect taking a pay cut at present. I want to know what the Taoiseach will do about it. I will ask him very specifically...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ireland's provision of refuge places for women who have been victims of domestic violence is hopelessly inadequate. We signed the Istanbul Convention in 2015. Adherence to that convention means we should have 498 refuge places throughout the country. We only have 143. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown has no refuge places at all. A report produced this week suggested that, this year alone,...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way he plans to respond to the recent EPA Report on Waste 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61540/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Process (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the involvement he or his Department has had in the development of planned legislation in relation to marine protected areas; his views on the progress of maritime planning in the absence of these protected areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61541/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 262. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a county council must erect site notices, display pending documents and applications on their websites for section 254 licences and allow observations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61313/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason very few of the 467 teachers on secondment that would be available for substitute work have become available to schools (details supplied); if these teachers have been deployed temporarily to the substitute panels across the country; if not, if she will ensure they are added to the substitute panel and that this panel is made...