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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Consultant Contracts (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Gino Kenny is ill today so I am asking this question on his behalf. Six beds closed in the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire in August, meaning, scandalously, that 12 beds have closed in that hospital. The other six have been closed since the end of 2017 due to staff and other resource shortages. 5 o’clock In August, however, six paediatric inpatient...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the universities' analysis.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing facile about my analysis of the funding of third level education. This analysis was provided by the Irish Universities Association. Its authors are academics so I think the Taoiseach should take them a bit more seriously rather than just trying to score political points. The analysis points out that we are spending a small fraction of what most other European countries are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, last met. [42044/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I put it to the Taoiseach that our public services are in bits. We all know about the public housing crisis, and we are aware of the dire situation in our public health service, but one crisis that is less remarked on but which is very severe is the crisis in third level education. That crisis was not in any way addressed or acknowledged in the Government's recent budget. The Taoiseach may...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has not answered my question.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will not revoke it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In its programme for Government, the Government promised a humanitarian response to asylum seekers, committed to making Ireland a safe haven for those fleeing from violence, and said it would promote the integration of migrants in this country. The deportation order for Shepherd Machaya is anything but compassionate. He has lived nine years in direct provision, a pretty awful system, but he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Health the respite care services available for parents and guardians of children with intellectual disabilities in CHO area 6; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43451/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for ensuring access to respite for parents of children and adults with intellectual disabilities attached to a service (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43450/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 440. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to replace the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant withdrawn in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38836/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the regulations in place for fishermen trawling and-or dredging for mussel seeds on the foreshore, off the coast and in areas of special conservation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43236/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (23 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 617. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will clarify matters (details supplied) in relation to the review of State pension (contributory) pensioners on post-2012 rate bands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43220/18]

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the Committee on Budgetary Oversight secretariat and the Parliamentary Budget Office for their great work on all of this and the report that was produced in May, in particular the work they have done in trying to advance the cause of equality budgeting and gender budgeting. I commend the Chairman and my fellow committee members for their work. I thank all of the people who...

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the private conversations can end now. It is a bit outrageous, to be honest.

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate that. Fair play to him. What we just saw was extremely disrespectful. Equality is good for our society. Obviously, gender equality is critical in so far as 50% of the world's population suffer systematic discrimination and oppression and are disproportionately impacted by poverty, war and all of the injustices and inequalities that exist in...

Report on Gender Budgeting: Motion (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Waving the red flag.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are no angels among states and governments in the Middle East but the Saudi regime is a murderous, brutal, rogue one that is the enemy of democracy. It is willing to use the most savage methods, including now bombing Yemen into a famine situation which will affect the entire population, and to do so openly and blatantly. Also, as we saw with the Khashoggi affair, a journalist who...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But there were no sanctions.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (18 Oct 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We did not hold back before we acted after the attack in Salisbury.