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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As well as the issue of Israel's abhorrent treatment of Palestinian children as described by Deputy McDonald, whose question I echo about what the Government will do to raise this ongoing and systematic denial of rights to children in breach of every sort of international law and standard, I wish to ask about what the Government is going to do to raise its voice and demand that the EU take...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff Data (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international division in his Department. [47832/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Biotechnology Industry (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the role his Department has in implementing the bio-economy framework which was launched a year ago; and the actions that have been taken since. [49141/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Biotechnology Industry (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The bioeconomy strategy pays lip service to forestry and its importance to the bioeconomy, biodiversity, a circular economy, etc. However, the actuality of Government policy suggests that all of this is just lip service and nothing more. A report by Mr. Jim Mackinnon, commissioned by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, has come out just this month. Frankly, it is damning of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Later this evening, we will discuss the gamut of policy failures of this Government in the area of housing and homelessness. Because People Before Profit requested it, on Thursday we will discuss solutions to the housing crisis, in case the Taoiseach is tempted to say we do not want to discuss solutions. There was a whole chapter in the programme for Government on "Ending the Housing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the question.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows better than Peter McVerry.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister knows better than Peter McVerry.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell the Pope.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Pope missed that.

Freagra ar Eascairí - Return of Writs: Cork North-Central, Dublin Fingal, Dublin Mid-West and Wexford - Introduction of New Members (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I commend the four newly elected Deputies. It is not an easy thing to put one's name on a ballot paper and stick one's head above the parapet. There is a lot of hard work involved and the new Deputies set themselves up for a lot of responsibility and expectation on behalf of the constituents who elected them. It is a brave thing and the four Deputies...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Local Enterprise Offices (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans or proposals to assist small and struggling businesses in towns and villages. [50143/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 601. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rates paid to the companies for each person who is referred to them with regard to the various companies that run the JobPath scheme; the stage in the process the payment or payments are made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50389/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 602. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 628 of 22 October 2019, if the nature of clerical error is an isolated incident with the company involved; if not, the number of such errors with the company and the dates on which they occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50390/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (3 Dec 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 603. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the safeguards in place to ensure that the signature on the personal progression plan forms used by Turas Nua is in fact the signature of the person identified on the form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50391/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. I just want to know the facts.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just give us the facts. How much will this cost?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Monday next, Dublin City Council will revisit the issue of O'Devaney Gardens, a development where the Government is backing plans to hand over the entire site of 14 acres to a private developer in return for 192 social housing units, with the rest of it given over to the private developer to profit from. In advance of that meeting, the Minister needs to tell us how much this is costing...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (28 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding from the SEAI to local authorities in 2020 to help retrofit social housing stock; the projected allocation and number of homes expected to be improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49435/19]