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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Expenditure (8 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to date of remedial works to buildings commissioned by the OPW as design and build projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46169/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts Data (8 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the completed design and build projects commissioned by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46159/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts Data (8 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the completed design and build projects commissioned by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46161/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (8 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is now a legal requirement to have a clerk of works on all building developments; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46192/18]

Apprenticeships: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes; I am sharing with Deputy Barry. I want to tell the Minister of State a little story which sums up what we need to do if we want to encourage people to get back into apprenticeships. I was at the Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach dealing with the Finance Bill so I have not heard all the debate but I am sure other speakers have said that there are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not quite sure what to make of the Minister's answer. If this service goes, it will be a major blow to an area where there is very substantial disadvantage and in which there are many vulnerable families and young people. Reviews and new ways of commissioning are fine, but this service needs to be maintained. If it is not, vulnerable families and young people will lose a vital...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By the way, they are in the Visitors Gallery.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the necessary funds will be made available to an organisation (details supplied) in order that it can continue to offer both the residential care and the early intervention family support service to families and vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46128/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The value of early intervention for vulnerable young people and families is beyond question. All NGOs and organisations working in this area agree and I have seen the Minister at some of their gatherings, including a meeting of the Children's Rights Alliance at which the undeniable value of early intervention was discussed. In that context, my question is really a plea to the Minister to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Child and Family Agency Funding (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister's reasonably positive response and acknowledge her response to my previous correspondence. However, there is uncertainty here because the private funding from the proceeds of the sale of the Cottage Home on Tivoli Road is running out. There are six qualified staff here and they are, frankly, saving the State a great deal of money. This is the important point about...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will meet with key stakeholders of an organisation (details supplied) with a view to ensuring that it can continue to offer the full range of crucial support services to vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45827/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (7 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will make the necessary funds available to an organisation (details supplied) in order that it can continue to offer the full range of crucial support services to vulnerable children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45826/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [45823/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is meeting, as we speak, to consider possible industrial action over the failure of the Taoiseach's Government to recognise the pay crisis at the heart of a complete inability to recruit nurses into the public health service and the consequent crisis in that health service. Pay and conditions are so terrible that, for every four nursing jobs...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the economic division of his Department. [45635/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that Cabinet committee D deals with housing, among other things. As well as being a social and humanitarian emergency, housing is increasingly becoming a very serious economic threat to this country. Vast numbers of our citizens, working people and others, simply cannot afford to put a roof over their heads. I spent last Saturday at the national assembly of the National...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----by making it clear that the question of the Border was not up for negotiation. The Taoiseach's hand and ours would be strengthened if we were to make it clear that the Irish people would get to vote on any final deal if it were in any way ambiguous or ambivalent on the question of the Border, now or in the future. That would be pure democracy as far as I am concerned, but the people of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [45634/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all know any re-imposition of a physical border between the North and South would be a disaster and we are all united in insisting that under no circumstances or in whatever agreement is reached should there be any question of a hard border. We should make it clear to Britain and the European Union that we will not in any way facilitate this, co-operate or play any part in the erection of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Closures: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills (6 Nov 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be very quick. I apologise to the Minister as I will have to run in order to ask a parliamentary question so I may not be here for his reply. However, I will look at the transcript afterwards. I want to deal with the issue of accountability and the extent of the Department's interest in warnings that were given. Problems might have been apparent to the Department much sooner....