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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are dancing to the tune of fossil fuel companies.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on her efforts to establish a film stakeholders forum to resolve ongoing disputes and issues across the industry; the stakeholders she has engaged with; the willingness of these groups to take part in such a forum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8678/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the efforts she is making to address employment and training precarity and poverty among workers and performers in the arts sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8675/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if producer companies in receipt of public funds and support will be required to offer training and employment to employees and trainees who were previously employed by the companies to ensure the provision of quality training and employment opportunities on all publicly funded or supported film productions; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the film production underway at a studio (details supplied) is in receipt of section 481 tax relief and Irish Film Board grants; if so, the actions undertaken to ensure the provision of quality employment and training and the full application of employment legislation in terms of recruitment on the production; if the producer...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if efforts to establish a film stakeholders forum have been abandoned due to the fact that some stakeholders have decided to boycott it; if so, the reason some stakeholders are allowed to effectively veto efforts to resolve ongoing disputes across the industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8674/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (21 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if unemployed persons are required to engage with Turas Nua or Seetec in order to avoid a cut in welfare payments in view of the recent motion on JobPath passing in Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8902/19]

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My point was only that he resigned. He was the guy in charge of the project board and he resigned. It is in the public domain and has been printed in the newspapers.

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: His name has been printed in all the newspapers and everyone has read it but I cannot use his name. The guy who resigned was previously working for Sisk in Poland, where there was a massive overrun of €200 million on a road project. He had to leave Sisk as a result but he then got the job for the national children's hospital. The Polish Government, however, had told the contractor...

Presentation and Circulation of Further Revised Estimates 2019: Motion (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked at the Business Committee, of which I am a member, for this debate on the Revised Estimates, which were going to be just pushed straight to the individual committees. This was according to the Government's proposed schedule of business. I objected to this for the same reasons that the Government very much needs to be held to account for what has happened with the children's...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will vote no confidence in the Minister for Health, not just because of his failures but because of the collective political failures of Fine Gael and three of its Ministers to protect our health service and deal with the litany of crises which beset that health service and inflict unbearable, unacceptable suffering and hardship on sick and vulnerable people who need that...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The most elementary infrastructure necessary for the maintenance of society and the existence of humanity is our natural environment. The Taoiseach’s highly disingenuous response to Deputy Bríd Smith earlier about her climate emergency Bill, which is trying to stop the extraction of further fossil fuels was not very heartening in respect of his attitude to this. I do not know...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Well below target.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, will next meet. [8379/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Outside the count centre in Citywest on the day we waited for the results of the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment, the Taoiseach and I had a brief conversation about the likely result. I suggested to him that one consequence of the result was that we needed to move forward to the complete separation of church and State and he replied that we would leave that conversation for another...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent or planned meetings with church leaders. [8378/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the debate later on the motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, we will discuss the litany of failures in the area of health. However, the one I cannot understand and which the Government does not appear to wish to resolve given the casual indifference it is displaying is the series of strikes taking place in the national ambulance service. There was one last...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (20 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service division of his Department. [7980/19]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last night I spoke to Vera Twomey, a woman whose daughter, Ava, suffers from the extremely debilitating Dravet's syndrome. More than anyone in the country, Vera has brought to public notice the urgent need to provide access to medicinal cannabis for people with such conditions. Incredibly and despite the Taoiseach's promises to introduce a medicinal cannabis access programme, Vera still has...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Excuses, excuses.