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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.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will respond briefly to the point made by Deputy McDonald. I am glad she accepts that these are obnoxious so-called reforms. They are vile intrusions and cuts on particularly vulnerable people. To my mind they have to be resisted full stop. Mitigation is not enough. This is appalling. These are private companies - those involved not even medical practitioners - telling people whether...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Issues (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that, as Deputy Burton said, it has not happened here yet, but we must not allow it to happen. Sinn Féin should not have passed that Bill. This is the point about whether Stormont is in place. We have to resist these measures regardless of who is in government and regardless of the Administration that is in place because these measures are vile and obnoxious. This is not...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the more frustrating aspects of the endless finger-pointing that has been a feature of the Brexit debate is that issues which have a real day-to-day impact on people in the North, particularly those who are vulnerable and less well off, are being completely forgotten. The UK Welfare Reform Act 2012 was one of the most obnoxious pieces of legislation to come from Westminster. It was...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): British-Irish Council (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was talking about the North.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of all of the promised legislation before this House, the abortion legislation has the most unequivocal democratic mandate from the people of this country. It is also has a very definite timeline to make abortion facilities available to women in this country. A minority of people, however, seem to wish to frustrate the democratic wishes of the people in this country, regardless of the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Regardless of that question, given the obvious attempts by some to frustrate the democratic wishes of the people of this country, at this stage we need to send a clear signal. I refer to sitting on Friday, if necessary, and sitting until this legislation finishes this week. This legislation could also be amended in the Seanad, so the Dáil, if necessary should sit on extra days before...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not asking for a guillotine. I am asking for a Friday sitting.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Friday sitting?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not said a word about abortion for two days.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Health if a centre (details supplied) will remain open with all the services and staff available to the blind community of CHO area 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50804/18]