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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are pretty well informed on this one.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a deafening silence from the Government regarding the rogue Saudi state's murderous activities in Yemen that have brought 13 million to 14 million people to the brink of starvation, amid warnings of the worst famine in 100 years, in a war in which tens of thousands have already been killed and millions of others displaced. Virtually the entire population of Yemen is now dependent on...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will. By the way, I thank the Minister for his words. I share the sentiments he expressed about the Business Committee. I wish him good luck with his new portfolio.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had to reciprocate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be honest, the Minister has not provided the clarity I am seeking. Do people still have the right to opt out of religious education in favour of alternative subject choices? The Minister's failure to give me a clear answer suggests they do not have that right in some instances. I was also a philosophy student. At my first philosophy lecture in UCD, a priest who was a member of Opus Dei...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It absolutely did not work on me. That kind of approach is not acceptable. The approach we are advocating needs to be absolutely clear. This subject should be changed from religious education to philosophy and should include other world views that have nothing to do with religion. We should look at religious views in the context of all views of the world, but that is not what we are...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One can get that from Karl Marx as well, by the way.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the circular of February 2018 from his Department to State-run non-religious schools run by local education and training boards and community schools which outlined that alternative subject choices should be offered to students who did not wish to study religion seems to have been reversed; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On 19 February, the Department of Education and Skills issued a circular to State second-level schools stating that they must offer alternative subject choices to students who do not want to study religion. This instruction applied to State-run non-religious schools run by local education and training boards and community schools. It was a very good instruction and was welcomed by those who...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh (Atógáil) - Priority Questions (Resumed): School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need clarification here. I am aware, on foot of a report by Emma O'Kelly of RTÉ and freedom of information, FOI, requests that were submitted in respect of this matter, that there was very considerable lobbying by the Catholic bishops, the Association of Trustees of Catholic Schools, former heads of County Dublin vocational education committees, VECs. These bodies were clearly...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the needs of all children in education will be catered for if there is no requirement for schools to offer alternative subjects to students who do not wish to study religion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42052/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (18 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 322. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the onus is on a casual worker to get their employer to fill out the COE1 form; the steps a person should take in the instance that the employer does not comply with requests to fill out the form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42794/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know where to begin. How many staff are employed in the agency?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it be a voluntary or paid board?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How many will be on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who will decide what they will be paid?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the timeline for the agency in having a full staff complement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but it will be 12 months before the agency is fully staffed. Mr. Coleman mentioned eight sites. Will he identify them for the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will any of the agency's staff come from NAMA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Appropriate Use of Public Land: Discussion (17 Oct 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All three current staff members are former NAMA staff?