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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2490.To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost for enabling student health facilities to prescribe hormones and offer blood tests to trans and non-binary students. [33288/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2586.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of a new staff member in each education and training board to promote disabled students’ participation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32603/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2645.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to introduce a living wage for all apprentices. [33272/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2646.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to make available emergency accommodation at the beginning of each academic year for students who are due to commence their education without securing accommodation for the first six-weeks of term. [33274/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Living Wage (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2647.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to pay a living wage to all students engaging with mandatory placement as part of their study. [33276/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2648.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to provide students on SUSI who partake in mandatory placement an additional maintenance grant of €250 a month like Erasmus. [33277/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2649.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to fully fund the provision of 30,000 student beds to bridge the gap in student accommodation. [33278/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2650.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to with abolishing the holiday earnings for SUSI. [33279/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2651.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost for SUSI grant support be extended beyond the list of approved institutions and courses for example, there are currently nine higher education institutes offering courses through the CAO system that are not eligible for SUSI grants. [33280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2652.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to abolish all post-graduate fees. [33285/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2653.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to cap post-graduate fees to the same as undergraduate €3,000. [33286/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2654.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost for SUSI to cover 100% fees for post-graduates. [33287/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2686.To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the instructions she intends to give local authority animal control sections regarding the rehoming of currently impounded XL bully dogs and other restricted breeds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32287/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is considering to ensure full compliance with EU copyright directives and copyright legislation, given the issues raised by representatives of actors, performers, writers, and directors about the use of buyout contracts in the Irish film industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30469/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For many years, I have been raising the concerns of people in the film industry and this question relates particularly to actors, writers, directors and performers who are forced by film producers in this country to sign buyout contracts, contracts which are far inferior to what actors, performers, writers and directors get in other jurisdictions. These buyout contracts are a breach, in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: More transparency about how much money is generated out of the films is welcome-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the problem, as I have been trying to explain to the Government, as have the representatives of the writers, directors and performers, is the people with the whip hand are the producers. If you want a job, you sign the contract or otherwise, you do not get a job. That is the way it actually works. The contracts being offered to writers, directors, actors and performers are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was the one who asked our committee to do that report. I know quite a lot about it, with respect.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pretty familiar with this issue because I have been bringing it up for about four years. The problem is, nothing ever really changes. I am interested to see this legislation and whether it will make any difference. Could the Minister of State please tell us when that legislation is actually coming up? To repeat, there is an easier way to do this and it is for the Government to crack...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Low Pay (11 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Workers who are not on the sub-minimum rates - older workers - lose out because employers depend on people who they are paying the lower rates. It is actually the older workers who lose out in some of those industries in terms of what they are paid because of disproportionate dependence on people who are on sub-minimum rates. I take the point that in many cases there is a very low...