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Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services Provision (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a growing crisis in childcare in this country. The crisis is threefold: the extortionate costs of childcare, often reaching over €1,000 a month; the staffing and pay for workers in childcare, which is low and precarious or seasonal; and increasingly, the major problem in accessing childcare places. What is the Government intending to do to address this crisis, particularly...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services Provision (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sceptical that the efforts the Minister has outlined will deliver the affordable childcare that we need. There is already evidence that the childcare scheme may merely push up the prices charged by the private providers and wipe out the value of the subsidy. That highlights the overall problem. A little like the housing crisis, the Government's plans for childcare depend on the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is giving it away to the big multinational corporations.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The message contained in the results of the elections which took place on Friday demanding radical emergency measures to address the climate crisis was dramatic and unmistakable. The central demand of the global climate movement is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. All the science says that 80% of known reserves of fossil fuels must stay in the ground if we are to address the crisis. At...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is particularly so when one of the biggest producers of offshore crude oil in the world is involved.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who does "our" refer to? It is a global problem.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what the science says.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And to keep drilling for oil.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What does this have to do with-----

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services Funding (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of future investment in youth supports and infrastructure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22691/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 336. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the progress and projections of afforestation targets and plans in A Programme for A Partnership Government; if the targets are being met; the proportion of new forest planting that is native broadleaf species and single species conifer plantation, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Data (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proportion of forest estate here that is single species conifer and native broadleaf plantation, respectively; the breakdown of the two plantation types between publicly owned and privately owned forests, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22748/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Tús Programme (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider making changes to the Tús scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22292/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 461. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) is being refused rent supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22480/19]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just find the Minister's rationale for going ahead with this process very difficult to follow. If I hear him rightly, he is sort of acknowledging that the privatisation of Eircom has landed us in this situation and that the fact that much of the broadband network is already privatised means that even though we are not in a good situation, we must now continue with the privatisation process...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not really answered the question. Is it not highly possible this consortium could unravel, and therefore do we not carry all the risk anyway? The Minister keeps saying we are capping the risk. How are we doing so? If this consortium goes belly up, the risk will not be capped and we will end up holding the baby, so to speak. Regardless of the structure put in place, how...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be honest, that does not convince me and it is an accident waiting to happen. That is what the Secretary General of the Department seems to be saying. I have a straight question about one of the potential risks, whether the Minister has looked at it, and if it bothers him. The company formerly known as Siteserv has a legal case pending against it, and we do not know the implications of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: National Broadband Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. The Minister has the question.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not calling for more credit.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (22 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If this House has any purpose at all - I suspect the public sometimes wonders whether it does - it is to see crises coming down the line and act to prevent them. This month in 2013, at a meeting of the finance committee, I suggested to representatives of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and the Government that the moves to bring large global property investors into Ireland pursued by the...