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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 353. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing maternity benefit to 52 weeks at current levels of payment. [28871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 354. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending parent’s benefit to 52 weeks. [28872/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 355. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending parent’s benefit to 52 weeks and increasing the level of the payment to €300 a week. [28873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 405. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated full-year cost to increase, by 25,000 hectares per year, land under forestry or biodiversity regeneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28892/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: School Meals Programme (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 411. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of providing free school meals for all pre-school children in the ECCE scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28862/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 424. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated cost to clear assessment of needs waiting lists for children with autism. [28813/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 425. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that the timelines for assessment of needs outlined in the Disability Act 2005 are adhered to for every child in need of such an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28837/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 426. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of providing free childcare for all children under five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28839/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 427. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of providing free after school childcare for all children in primary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28840/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 428. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of increasing spending on childcare to 1% of GDP. [28841/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 429. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of increasing wages for all childcare workers by €2 an hour via a public subsidy. [28842/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 430. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost of increasing childcare subsidies to 100% of fees paid by parents availing of childcare subsidies. [28843/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of annual funding provided for children with disabilities to participate in preschool education. [28844/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [28199/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue of housing is not only responsible for untold hardship, anxiety and suffering for large numbers of people who are at the wrong end of the housing crisis, but it is also probably the greatest economic problem we now face, and increasingly so. We cannot recruit teachers because they cannot afford to live in places like Dublin. We cannot recruit enough health workers because they...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since Israel's genocidal massacre commenced in Gaza, hundreds of millions of people across the world have taken to the streets in solidarity with Palestinians, including in the US, where Jewish people have said Israel's crimes are not committed in their name and that Biden's arming and supporting of Israel does not represent them. Considering the depressing spectacle of Trump versus Biden...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel would not be able to continue what the International Court of Justice has rightly recognised as a possible genocide, the worst possible crime anybody is capable of committing, without the favoured trade status, political support and arms it receives from the European Union. It simply would not be able to do it. The European Union is the biggest trading partner of Israel. Germany...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the informal European Council in Brussels. [27043/24]

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this important motion. I truly commend Natasha O'Brien and Bláthnaid Raleigh for their incredible bravery in the face of the vicious assaults and traumatisation they have suffered. There are many things that one could say but in the very short time that is available to me, I will focus on the bravery and courage of Natasha and...