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Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has attacked-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished making my point of order. This is absolutely shameful behaviour on the part of the Government. I absolutely cannot believe that the Green Party is a party to this. They sabotaged democracy. This is-----

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak to our amendments, Nos. 10 and 33. The argument we are making in both amendments, very simply, is that we are still in a public health emergency. The ban was brought in to protect people against being evicted and made homeless in the context of an emergency that threatens people's health. Unless something has changed that we have missed, we are still in that public health...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are supposed to call in order, a Cheann Comhairle.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are you not taking us in the order of the amendments?

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the way it is normally done, a Cheann Comhairle. I do not know why you are departing from the normal procedure. I could not understand that.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am concerned with procedure. We will discover that later tonight when there will be a big row about procedure and the move by some to gag the smaller parties.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just seeing as we were discussing procedure. This is one law for the poor and one law for the rich. There are a number of examples, which I have cited regularly, of vulture funds using loopholes in the Residential Tenancies Act which were designed or left - I do not know - by the previous Government, and the Government before that, to facilitate vulture funds and unscrupulous...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a better view from here to prevent skullduggery. I also want to respond to the Minister because, to be honest, I do not know what he is talking about when he suggests that this is a comprehensive Bill to protect tenants. This Bill dismantles the protections that were put in place to deal with the emergency and maintains protections for only a small cohort of tenants who have fallen...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a call for Ireland will be committed to for the education sector to employ more teachers to permanently reduce the pupil-teacher ratio and source new buildings in order that students can return to school safely in September 2020; if the two-tier pay for teachers will be abolished to ensure that all teachers are treated fairly and are paid on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that those going to third-level education in September 2020 in blended learning settings will not have to pay the current level of registration fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19240/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 313. To ask the Minister for Finance if there is a formal process for appeals for refusal of the temporary wage subsidy scheme payment from the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19743/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers and SNAs, respectively in employment funded by her Department by primary and secondary schools; the increase in funding she will allow to ensure that these numbers can be increased to ensure that class sizes can be reduced in order that schools can return in line with public health requirements; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 875. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider changing the qualifying requirements for the pandemic unemployment payment for persons that are both self-employed and part-time workers in order that they can have their total income assessed rather than just the PAYE part; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20545/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (30 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 874. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of and location in which guidelines in relation pandemic unemployment payment recipients leaving the country for holidays can be found; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20543/20]

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I really do not want to stretch this because I know Deputy Doherty wants to get to his amendment. What the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, told me was the direct opposite of what the Minister just said. I do not accept this pass the parcel. I talked to her the other day. I asked questions and she said insofar as the resources allocated to her have been made available, she had put in...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like an answer to the questions I asked on the section. There was a specific request to discuss those sectors that are in trouble before the Dáil session ends. Is the Minister open to that, given he expressed sympathy for the sectors mentioned? This amendment was attempting in another way, as had some of our amendments, to address the concerns of those groups that we have...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support this amendment. It is another way to try to address the deficiencies in the Bill and the need for sectoral-specific approaches for those sectors hit harder than others. We have gone through the debate, and I do want to extend it, but I have one additional appeal to make to the Minister. He asserts, and it is a fact, that we cannot further amend this Bill now. In addition to the...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to drag this out but what I would like, although it is not about what I would like because I am not in this position and none of us in this room is, but those 23,000 taxi drivers and their families, and at least 30,000 or 40,000 musicians, crew, theatre practitioners, artists and performers of various kinds want an answer before the summer recess. Mary Coughlan wants an answer...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.