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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...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could the Minister be more specific about when the report will be published and when this is going to happen? This cannot be long-fingered. As she said, Covid has highlighted the inadequacies that were there, but it has shone a sharp light on the problems and the unfairness of the leaving certificate. It is unfair to put large numbers of students through the incredible and unnecessary...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will give a full report on the recent discussions her Department has been having on reform of the leaving certificate; the timeline for changes to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57644/21]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is our view the leaving certificate should go because it has outlived its usefulness. It is a gatekeeping and streaming exercise which perpetuates inequality and limits or streams access to third level education. The Minister might not agree with all of that but she has committed to some sort of review of the leaving certificate. I want to know the status of that review because,...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be absolutely clear, our amendment will now be an addition. It was not submitted as a counterproposal to the Sinn Féin motion. It is additional to it.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We never submitted an amendment looking to delete anything in the motion. What we did was amend it. I do not understand how it has come out with the word "delete" as part of it.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have often put in changes before and that did not happen. That is not at all what we intended. I do not want anything that implies we were deleting any aspect of the motion because we were not. We were adding to it.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no choice, but I am not very happy about it. We never put the word "delete" into the amendment. I am not happy. You sometimes add and sometimes delete all of it and we did not put the word "delete" in our amendment. That was not in anything we submitted to the Journal Office.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think I had better. I think I have no choice.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What does Deputy Funchion think?

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the proposers accept the amendment, will the names of all the signatories from all parties, including those of the original motion, be on the amended motion or will it only be the of the signatories to the amendment? I would not want that. The whole point was that the amendment was in solidarity with the cross-party motion.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Acting Chair just clarify that point? If the amendment was accepted-----

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the amendment was accepted by the proposers, would the names of all the signatories to the original motion stay on the agreed and amended motion? That is what I want to know.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want it to be just our names.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that the way any motion passed would be?

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So it does not make any difference. Then I will press it.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is additional.

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "acknowledges: — that the State failed the women and children who were in Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes and County Homes institutions; — that women and their children were separated through coercion and/or force, often unlawfully, during their time in these...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nothing will turn people off the climate action agenda that we need to urgently undertake more than big corporations, wealthy individuals and political elites lecturing ordinary people about their personal culpability for the climate crisis. I warn the Government that if it does not break from that reliance, it will turn people away from the climate agenda. It will alienate people. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (23 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly agree that the commission of investigation format is not working. The delays and costs involved are inordinate and often by the end of the process, a lot of people are left wondering what it was all about in the first place. There is an air of Dickens's Jarndyce and Jarndyce about a lot of these commissions. I refer to the report of the Commission of Investigation into...