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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for implementing the outstanding recommendations from the Citizens' Assembly. [14251/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (9 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 627. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding applied for by Wicklow County Council to facilitate the transfer of residents from one area to another (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15748/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the potential for blacklisting in industries in which there is widespread use of fixed-term contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15660/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another important area of abuse of worker rights is the abuse of fixed-term workers. Legislation governing fixed-term workers should demand that these workers are treated no less favourably than full-time workers. However, I have seen evidence and have received testimony from workers in the Irish film industry which shows that the provisions of the fixed-term work legislation is not being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate the Minister's response and will take her up on her offer of help for a particular group of workers. We have engaged with the Department of Finance which is, in fairness, responding with regard to certain issues including the question of public funding and linking that to the vindication of rights. This issue actually cuts across several Departments, including the Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I very much appreciate that response and will contact the Minister to arrange a meeting. Many of the people to whom I refer have been working in the industry for ten, 15 or 20 years. Obviously, film work is episodic at some level but if workers point out that they are not receiving their rights and entitlements or if their employer simply does not like them, they stop getting work. I have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to allegations of abuse of workers on fixed-term contracts in episodic industries; if she has discussed the role she may play in vindicating the rights of these workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15659/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether HSE care company carers should be trained in first aid; and his plans to make it compulsory in particular in circumstances in which the patient in their care is prone to having choking incidents. [15740/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector Funding (4 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 317. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the options he is considering for 12 volunteer centres that are funded below €121,016 which is the recommended amount identified by the report Developing Funding Criteria for Volunteer Centres in Ireland; and the timeline for considering and delivering on those options. [15696/19]

Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is utterly shameful that we even have to discuss providing supports for homeless children. The Children First guidelines define the abuse of children as involving the systematic neglect of their needs. By any standard, the State and the Government are responsible for the abuse of children. It is an abuse for any child to have to live in emergency homeless accommodation with all that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach think, because I certainly do, that the belated realisation by Theresa May that pandering to the DUP and the crazies on the right of Tory Party has failed dismally to resolve the Brexit situation and that she is reaching across to Jeremy Corbyn is a welcome development? Notwithstanding the Taoiseach's obsession with having pot shots at socialists and the left, whatever he...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit actually. The Taoiseach's affirmation of his support for the Paris climate change agreement is a bit ironic when we will suffer major fines because of our failure in this area - a failure for which the Labour Party-Fine Gael Government must bear responsibility because it did nothing on climate change. While in government, it tried to sell off the forests and issued lots...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Howlin certainly did not attend the protests. He signed up to a memorandum to sell off the forests.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He did. It was in the memorandum.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just check the protests in-----

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pat Rabbitte was the Minister.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the issues he raised at the European Council meeting on 21 and 22 March 2019. [10925/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Citizens Assembly (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Rhetorical or even legal commitments to gender equality are welcome, all fine and good, but to deal with many of the most serious inequalities or disadvantages that women suffer, we need tangible supports for women. I recommend that we look at two areas: domestic violence and women's refuges to support women in situations of domestic violence. We are woefully inadequate in this regard. We...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Citizens Assembly (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for a citizens' assembly on gender equality. [15044/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the National Emergency Co-ordination Group: Discussion (3 Apr 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. An absolutely critical part of effective emergency services is having the fire services properly equipped. I have received shocking representations in the past ten days or so from firefighters who told me that the Dublin Fire Brigade fleet is substandard and the vehicles are way too old and would not be put on the road by fire services anywhere else in Europe, where there are very...