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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the day of the budget, I stated that it had effectively cut the incomes of workers, pensioners, students and those in receipt of social welfare such as disability allowance and carer's allowance. That regressive character of the budget and the injustice that the Government foisted on the vast majority of people under cover of the Brexit drama was confirmed by the ESRI, among others, at...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not the People Before Profit alternative.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [41382/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I understand it, if the Northern Irish Assembly is not up and running by 31 October, legislation passed in the British Parliament will require the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to the North. This would be a long-overdue vindication of the rights of women in the North, who have been denied the right to abortion and to control their own bodies. It would be a good thing,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with church leaders on 4 July 2019. [38539/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase and diversify forest cover here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42001/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision Data (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons employed in direct provision centres by the companies operating same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41655/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Protection (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 508. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if data collected by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, on BER forms in respect of water usage will not be passed on to other authorities such as Irish Water and that such data shall be protected in line with GDPR; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41614/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Administration (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 565. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the next round of sports capital grants will be announced; the deadline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42208/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Regulation (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 584. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a service (details supplied) is to be shut down on 11 October 2019 at the request of Tusla; the reason for same; the steps she can take to ensure the restoration of an after-school service for the parents and children affected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42133/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason means tested qualified adult payments for those on a contributory pension treat savings as income to be assessed which can result in the loss of the payment when at the same time persons are encouraged by the Government to save for their old age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42143/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (15 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the location in which the method for means testing for various social protection payments is laid out in legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42144/19]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is no problem for me.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Health Services Provision (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of his plans to provide free contraception; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41365/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (10 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which he plans to speed up access to assessment of needs for children to bring it in line with the statutory requirements to ensure the waiting list is no longer than three months and is completed in six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41366/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (9 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role her Department has played in the Mercosur and Ireland-US trade deals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37382/19]

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From the feedback I have got from outside this House, people are saying that this budget gave nothing, or less than nothing, to workers, pensioners, students or social welfare recipients but it hit people with increased prices on cigarettes and a regressive and unfair carbon tax. That is the truth. Punishing people for having an addiction is not the way to reduce smoking. Perhaps giving...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, are we debating Financial Resolution No. 1 only?

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is where all the extra money being crowed about by the Minister of State is going. The number of real council houses being built is abysmal and everything else is money going out the door into the pockets of NAMA developers that have been rehabilitated, vulture and cuckoo funds and big corporate landlords. They are making a killing. This budget has nothing about rents. What has...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It may not have been. I may have the country wrong. It was Russia, and it is not a bastion of anything good but at least it can provide cheap public transport. Instead of punishing people with carbon taxes, we should reduce people's fuel bills with a major national insulation installation programme. The current system is grossly unfair for people living in public housing as they cannot...