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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can task the SENO in the appropriate area to support a child (details supplied) and their family in locating an appropriate school place in a primary school with an ASD unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29300/20]

Pre-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on from that, I wish to add to the point I made to the Taoiseach earlier. The EU fiscal treaty rules have been waived in the context of Covid-19. Unless there is something we do not know, there is nothing whatsoever in those rules preventing the Government from spending the extra money that would be necessary to restore the PUP, the wage subsidy and other supports. As Deputy Paul...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wanted to bring up Lesbos and the call that we would take 400 of those who are being evacuated after the fires there. We should consider seriously doing that. As awful and harsh as the situation we face with Covid-19 is, these are people who are fleeing absolutely appalling situations, who have been driven from their homes and live in appalling conditions in holding camps in Lesbos. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People elected the Taoiseach, Deputies, including me, and Ministers to this House. Of course, Ministers, Taoisigh and Cabinet members have significant additional responsibilities but they also have a huge number of public servants and civil servants around them. To have on top of this an extensive layer of multiple highly-paid advisers raises questions in ordinary people's minds,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach the number of special advisers allocated to him; and the cost of each of these advisers in terms of salary, expenses and so on. [28550/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on arts and culture will next meet. [25611/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [28893/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, I have been shouting very loudly for a long time about the need to fund and support the arts and particularly arts workers in the current situation who have been starved of funding and supports to date. However, in one area of arts funding there has been great largesse and I call for an investigation into this. It is on foot of a dossier that has been produced by the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is now, incredibly, day 180 of the Debenhams dispute. The Taoiseach has promised that the Government would legislate to rectify the sort of situation that the Debenhams workers find themselves in. When does he propose to do that? Even if such legislation is enacted, it will not resolve the situation for the Debenhams workers. What proposals are provided for in the legislation that will...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all in this together; give me a break. If the Government goes ahead with the cuts instigated for the PUP, not only will it do a great injustice to hundreds of thousands of workers who have lost their jobs and income as a result of the pandemic and the measures taken by the Government to address it, but it will also do something very dangerous in undermining the collective social...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Leas-Cheann Comhairle sure?

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wanted to hear from the rest of the Opposition. This is a change in the speaking order but I will speak anyway. In the self-obsessed, self-serving bubble in which the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government seems to exist, the cut in the PUP does not really matter because those parties are more concerned with trying to hold together their stumbling Government, petulant-----

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think Deputy Sherlock is right.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was saying that I think the Deputy is right. I said he was right.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Sherlock should not insult me, then.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But-----

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not an argument but this is a fundamental break from the normal speaking order.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely do not want to delay proceedings and I know the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is in a difficult position but I agree with Deputy Sherlock. I do not know why he is giving out to me. This is our motion. We have introduced it and we want to hear what the other parties have to say before we respond.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we change the order now?

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We could just revert to the normal order.