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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 49. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the engagement he has had with the DAA in relation to protecting jobs at the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25888/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Refugee Resettlement Programme (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will engage with the Greek authorities with a view to helping relocate more of the refugees, particularly unaccompanied minors displaced from the Moria camp in Greece; and if he will implore the Greek authorities to make sure that minors are registered as minors and not as adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26266/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to set up a formal appeals process for students that have had their leaving certificate results downgraded by her Department as against the grade awarded to them by their teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25997/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to School Clothing and Footwear Allowance Scheme (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the income limit for back to school allowance to €700 to allow a couple who have both lost their employment and are on Covid-19 payments to qualify; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26047/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if there are research teams or research clinics set up to treat and research the conditions those recovering from Covid-19, post-covid19 infection are suffering, including but not solely chronic fatigue; if there is medical research ongoing, the detail of the different research and treatment facilities and teams; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body responsible for the treatment and research into the ongoing health complications of patients who are post-Covid 19 infection; the types of conditions being examined for inclusion in post-Covid-19 treatments and research; the locations the research and treatment is being conducted from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26035/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 233. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE or another organisation is researching the conditions affecting patients post-Covid-19 infection; if they are being considered as post viral fatigue syndrome patients; if so, if they can be examined at a later date to ascertain if they are possibly suffering from ME as a result of Covid-19 infection; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason farmers are being informed that EU priority habitats of community importance (details supplied) are ineligible for CAP funding in view of the fact EU governing regulations listed in Annex 1 of the Habitats Directive show such sites as being eligible; the reason farmers are being informed that EU treaties and laws agreed...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the agricultural appeals office is complying with EU law and governing regulations when making decisions on appeals regarding payments denied to farmers for preserving EU designated priority habitats of community importance; if it is policy to drive farmers that own such sites off their land by withholding EU funding from them...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 285. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a series of matters in relation to Coillte Nature (details supplied). [26044/20]

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5 o’clock I am sharing time with Deputies Barry and Paul Murphy. For months, I have been raising the plight of 22,000 taxi drivers whose livelihoods have been devastated by the Covid pandemic. Apart from a little bit of tea and sympathy, this and the previous Government have completely ignored and failed to provide support to them. The taxi drivers who took to the streets in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not make them replace their cars next year with CO2emitting cars then. Give them two years. It would be a win-win.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach's engagements with representatives of the Assembly he should consider engaging with our MLA, Gerry Carroll. People Before Profit in the North and South brings a unique perspective that goes back to Connolly and Wolfe Tone on the possibility of uniting Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter in a project to fight for a different type of Ireland. If we look at the reckless...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suspect the suggestion from the Minister with responsibility for climate action, communications networks and transport, Deputy Ryan, that taxi drivers should be removed from bus lanes was some sort of misguided notion about protecting the environment from CO2 emitting vehicles. I have already asked that that proposal be abandoned. I have a positive environmental, climate action proposal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Workers in Debenhams in Blackrock, along with almost 1,000 other workers, were on the picket lines at 6 a.m. this morning. I joined them at approximately 7.30 a.m. They had to go through the immense frustration of watching strike breakers brought in by their former manager. To be honest, most of their disgust was directed at the former manager ushering in these strike breakers. Frankly, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach meet the Blackrock workers?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [25610/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial penalties that will be applied to companies by the NTA as a result of the bus services provided by them not meeting the targets set out in its contract. [25848/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NAMA has made available to developers in loan facilities to complete projects by year up to the end of quarter 2 of 2020. [25841/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NAMA has paid out to date for repair and maintenance of properties in its portfolio. [25845/20]