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Special Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Appointment of Members (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the National Economic and Social Council. [26621/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the plans for a permanent site for Dún Laoghaire Educate Together; the timeframe for the site; the rationale for developing a temporary site for three years when a permanent site is due to be announced in Autumn 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26628/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a special school (details supplied) can expect to have a permanent site; his views on whether it is appropriate for a school that provides for children on the autism spectrum will be beside a building site for the whole of autumn 2019 and its outdoor space will be inaccessible due to the lack of a permanent site for both the school and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools nationally in temporary buildings or on temporary sites; the length of time they are in these temporary situations; if permanent sites have been identified; the length of time it is expected that each of these schools will be waiting for the permanent build; the patronage of each of these schools by county; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if planning permission has been submitted for the Dún Laoghaire Educate Together and a school (details supplied) regarding temporary accommodation; the timeline for the temporary accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26634/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 467. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been a delay in appointing a new sonographer in St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, that has led to the development of another waiting list after the scheduled retirement of the previous sonographer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26632/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 612. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a person has the right to have a smart meter on his or her property removed after it has been installed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26762/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Eligibility (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 709. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the reason disability allowance has been suspended for a person (details supplied) will be investigated; when a decision will be made on reinstating the payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26449/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. McCarthy and Dr. Kinsella for their interesting contributions. Notwithstanding the dangers and threats they have outlined, do they believe there are certain problems that must be addressed and that they will cost money? If the Government works within the discretionary fiscal space it is talking about, the amount available is not enough to deal with those problems. I do not need...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, that is fine.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The witnesses referred to stable sources of revenue. That was the basis of my first question. I take their point about volatile corporation tax heads and so on. Could they give examples of the more stable sources of revenue? The ones to which I would point include employers' PRSI, which is very low.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will agree to disagree on that one. What would Mr. McCarthy say about financial transactions taxes and wealth taxes? He pointed to this when referencing the opening up of loopholes. Our committee has started to examine this. Generally, a great deal of discussion focuses on what will be spent in current and capital expenditure but much less attention is given to tax reliefs, credits and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In that case can I ask one further question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget 2020 and Macroeconomic Issues: Discussion (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the likely impact of Brexit being somewhat negative or the possibilities of the downside risks that threaten us, the Government must respond by radically diversifying our economy away from being over-dependent on a few sectors. That is our best medium to long-term insulation against some of these vulnerabilities we have. Dr. Kinsella mentioned the agrifood sector and said we should...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Government sabotaging and subverting the democratic and legislative process through the use of money messages on Bills that do not involve any levying of taxes, which we are not allowed to do, or spending of money? It is abusing the money message on a whole series of Bills - in fact, it is 55 Bills at the moment. In our case, a Bill passed twice through the Dáil to give...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They lobbied for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In Berlin, there is a five-year temporary emergency freeze until the problem is resolved. There is no reason we could not do that and it would not necessarily drive people out of the market. It would be temporary and would recognise the emergency. On the issue of housing lists, let us be clear. If the numbers on housing assistance payment, HAP, and rental accommodation scheme, RAS,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The abysmal failure of the Government's housing policy is well known and acknowledged at this stage. There are 100,000 households on the housing lists, some waiting a decade or more. There are extortionate rents in Dublin running at an average of €1,600 per month, which means someone would need to be able to spend more than €18,000 a year on rent to afford that. House prices...

Pre-European Council: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. Following on from the points I made earlier, if we are to prevent the alarming rise of the far right across Europe and a return to the dark days of the 1930s and 1940s, we have to look at the underlying problems, and not only in Europe, of poverty, deprivation, inequality and gross disparities between the very wealthy and the majority in society....