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Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My amendment was after section 1 and before section 2, and proposed to create a new section 2.

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 3 is just the citation, is it not?

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The substantial section of the Bill is section 1, which spells out the increasing loan capacity. The amendments we hoped to move, which were ruled out of order, provided that there would be a certain conditionality on that. We agree with section 1 but we want conditions put on it. While for the purposes of pressing those conditions, they have been ruled out of order, it is entirely in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee A on the economy last met. [50391/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he has recently met church leaders. [50390/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Exemptions (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Finance if the drugs Nivolumab and Pembrolizumab will be made VAT exempt and tax allowable in circumstances in which a patient has no option but to self-fund these drugs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51695/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if language schools will be required to provide evidence of financial viability to ensure that closures such as that of a college (details supplied) is not allowed to happen again in view of the fact that non-EU students applying for visas to study English here must produce bank accounts and evidence of financial viability; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures being considered to ensure jobs in the lucrative English language teaching sector are not precarious (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52222/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the procedure in cases in which a person (details supplied) wishes to become a primary school teacher if they have to resit their mathematics examination when they have already sat the exam in 2012; if the applicant for primary teaching will be exempt from the new requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51538/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures can be taken to ensure that checks are put in place in order that language schools involved in overseas trade missions encouraging students to travel here must in some way prove they are financially viable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (11 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has sought a meeting with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) since the closure of a college; if not, his plans in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52221/18]

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or accreditation.

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to this Bill. There are many people watching this. I can tell the Deputy that for a fact. There is much interest in what is going on in the Irish film industry at the moment. Let us be honest, there is also a great deal of dispute about what is going on in the film industry. We need to resolve it because the film industry is very important. As I said as a preamble to all of my...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a bit like politics, indeed. We might have hoped, though, that the arts would have been slightly different. We need to try to address some of these problems. The key to getting to the bottom of it is trying to find out what is going on and resolving the issues rather than what has been happening. There has been a slagging match between different factions with accusations,...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a very important debate. I queried the description of this Bill as a technical Bill at the Business Committee, where it was originally suggested the Bill be taken all in one go, through all Stages, without pre-legislative scrutiny. The argument put forward was that it was a technical Bill and, therefore, it was justified to short-circuit the normal legislative process. Any...

Irish Film Board (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tut tut.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Language Schools (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister's willingness to meet the delegation who are sitting in the Gallery. Perhaps he could indicate how we might arrange this meeting. I think they are delighted he is willing to meet them, and fair play to him. Could he tell me - or tell them - how we might arrange that this afternoon? Beyond that, the Government needs to put its eye on this issue. Two years ago,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Language Schools (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fine.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Language Schools (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was outside Grafton College the night before last. The teachers who were gathered there were absolutely distraught, shocked and bewildered at what had happened. Without notice, the college closed. With Christmas coming, the jobs have been lost and the weeks of wages owed to the staff are not forthcoming, which is completely unacceptable. The Government should take this issue very...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2018: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Broughan is thinking of joining Solidarity-People Before Profit.