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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1823. To ask the Minister for Health the changes to and impact on the provision of on-site therapeutic services to the children and young people attending services (details supplied) generally and the pupils of a school in particular in the rolling out of the new HSE progressing disability services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15598/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2013. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will request from Coillte the percentage of planting which is coniferous and broadleaf, respectively by site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15225/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the big fears among ordinary people is that they are going to pay for the Covid-19 crisis, as was the situation during the most recent crisis, which was not of the people's making but of the making of bankers and developers. Their actions caused an unprecedented economic crash and ordinary people paid the bill through income losses, job losses and crushing cuts to areas such as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dr. Cassidy appears to be saying that there will be no austerity for now but the level of the debt we have taken on means the potential of some hard choices coming at a certain point. Perhaps Dr. Cassidy will think this is getting into the political area, or whatever, but does he want to comment on the Oxfam report? I know that the Central Bank produces reports on wealth and its...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time have I left?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked most of my questions. On wealth distribution, I take Dr. Cassidy's point about property values and so on but has he any further comment on it? The figure I am aware of is that the wealthiest 10% has approximately 58% of all the wealth. Therefore, if there is a concentration of wealth in property and other areas as a result of Covid, does it follow that there has been a growth...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank everyone who contributed to this debate. Mostly, however, I thank young people and students for forcing these issues to the top of the agenda, especially during this period of Covid-19. I thank the leaving certificate students this year and last year who simply refused to do the leaving certificate examinations, despite the Government's obsession with trying to carry on with them....

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Covid-19 and public health restrictions have imposed significant hardship and sacrifice on young people, students and all those in education, seriously diminishing the educational experience and negatively impacting on mental health and general wellbeing; — even before the Covid-19 pandemic, this cohort of people faced very...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing with Deputies Paul Murphy and Gino Kenny. I am taking eight minutes, Deputy Paul Murphy is taking eight minutes and Deputy Gino Kenny is taking four minutes.

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The socialists are extremely well organised. We are also trying to be ahead of the curve with this. It is sometimes frustrating in this place because there is great interest in the barneys and the Punch and Judy show. However, there is not so much interest when Deputies are trying to put forward what I would consider in this motion on higher and further education to be positive proposals...

Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our group is not speaking on this Bill.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once upon a time, it was considered unthinkable that there would be open access to secondary education. We now look back and see it as monstrous that we would ration or limit the number of places available in secondary education. It is just as irrational and, frankly, lacking in vision to believe that we should still ration or limit access to higher and further education, education which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not need to remind the Tánaiste about the very significant hardship and sacrifice that huge numbers of people have undergone as a result of the Covid pandemic. With a motion that People Before Profit is putting before the House tonight, we are proposing that for many of those who have made that sacrifice and suffered that stress, anxiety and hardship, we need to offer them a better...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the body that is responsible for enforcing restrictions in the construction or other sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13818/21]

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The Minister may not know it but he has People Before Profit to thank for the opportunity to debate this issue. We specifically requested it at the Business Committee. Such is our commitment to this matter, we have also tabled a motion that will give the Minister another opportunity to discuss it tomorrow. I will have more time to set out our stall in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Sisters of Charity have been again implicated in really quite shameful practices, in terms of the revelations about illegal adoptions and their involvement in St. Patrick's Guild. The order has also been implicated in the mother and baby home scandal but, incredibly, this same religious order will be running the National Maternity Hospital, against a background where Archbishop Diarmuid...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we get a brief answer on the Chinese and Russian vaccines?

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems the European Union has performed extremely badly in securing the supplies of vaccine that we need and the contrast with Britain is stark. I wonder the extent to which this is because the European Union is deferring to the big pharmaceutical companies that are producing the vaccine because of their desire to make money and so on. I say that because, for example, the World Health...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not pretty embarrassing that Boris Johnson's Government has managed to do a better job of rolling out the vaccination programme than our Government? This is the Prime Minister who made an absolute hames of the initial response to the pandemic and who, to put it mildly, has shown incompetence at many levels during this crisis. However, Boris Johnson's Government is streets ahead of us...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is looking for a waiver of pre-legislative scrutiny of the residential tenancies Bill, in which he intends to extend the enhanced Covid protections for tenants in arrears, but it is not clear whether it will keep those protections for other tenants where they face eviction on grounds of sale or refurbishment. I...