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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (25 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will report on the roll-out of the Work Placement Experience Programme. [57931/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past number of weeks, many taxi drivers were pushed off the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP. In fact, many of them could have stayed on it but voluntarily signed off because their sector was recovering. Now the sector has gone over a cliff because of the night-time curfew, the public health advice for people to reduce social contacts and the work from home provisions. Taxi...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some were.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach the key policy achievements of his Department since June 2020. [57324/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, I said to the Taoiseach that people cannot get a PCR test in Dublin for love nor money. Now that fact has been confirmed, although people in the Government's front bench were shaking their heads when I said that. Something else that the Taoiseach might consider is that, if people cannot get a test for a couple of days, they can understandably feel pressure to get a private test,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The threatened sale of the Killegar forest in Enniskerry, which I highlighted and on which I am glad to say Coillte backed off, and the one raised by Deputy Cairns that the Taoiseach was talking about earlier on, indicate a fundamental problem with the mandate of Coillte, namely, that it is operating to commercial imperatives, rather than as a guardian of the forest estate and as the entity...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [57323/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The protests outside by hauliers are just the latest manifestation of the huge problems large numbers of working people, people on lower incomes, hauliers, taxi drivers and many others are having with the cost of living and the cost of energy and fuel. The Taoiseach asked that we give some suggestions. We have given suggestions. Under section 61 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007, the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will not be evicted from homeless accommodation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should make a commitment on that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These people would not be able to afford those houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have lost count of how many times I have raised the issue of reviewing the income thresholds for eligibility for social housing over the last four or five years. Whether it is the last Government or this Government, the stock response is that “it is under review” or “the review will be completed shortly”, and we have been told that for four or five years now....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, will the Taoiseach give me a commitment that homeless families will not be evicted from homeless accommodation because they get a job and try to earn a bit of extra income? Will he give me that commitment now and issue that instruction to local authorities? Second, can I just point out that if they had been housed as they should be, or even got a HAP tenancy, they would not be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is there not a-----

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How many minutes do we have?

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will take four each.

Education (Health, Relationships and Sex Education) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We thought we had more. I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this Bill on this incredibly important subject. I also commend the former Deputy, Ruth Coppinger, who brought forward a Bill with similar objectives in 2018, the Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018, which tackled the issue in a slightly different way but had the same objectives. That Bill was passed by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Air Quality (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct her Department to arrange supply of ventilation and HEPA filtration equipment to ensure safe air quality standards in every school classroom and staff room; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58055/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (24 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the impact of the current Covid-19 surge on outpatient waiting lists; and the way he plans to tackle same. [57806/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A lecturer in UCD told me that much of the modern examination system originated with efforts to populate the civil service in British-controlled colonial China. I do not know if it is true, but it is a structure that is about enforcing certain norms and notions of hierarchy. That is still true of the leaving certificate. There are some dinosaurs in the North or in Britain who might hark...