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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 338. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost of funding schools in order to allow them to abolish the voluntary contribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36588/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost of abolishing apprenticeship fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36589/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Back to Education Allowance (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full year cost of reversing all cuts to back to education funding since 2008; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36590/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 902. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1810 of 24 July 2018, and in view of the fact no response has issued from the HSE, the full year cost of reducing prescription charges to €1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36619/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 903. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost of abolishing the prescription charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36620/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 904. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1814 of 24 July 2018, and in view of the fact no response has issued from the HSE, the full year cost of hiring 500 new consultants. [36621/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Threshold (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 905. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1811 of 24 July 2018 and in view of the fact that a response has not issued from the HSE, the full-year cost of reducing the DPS threshold to €50, €100 and €132, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36622/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 906. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost of providing universal general practitioner care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36623/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services Provision (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 907. To ask the Minister for Health the full-year cost of providing universal primary care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36624/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 938. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the operation of home care services across all CHOs; the number of persons allocated a home care package who are still waiting to receive the care; if this is due to funding or lack of carers by CHO; the priority category of each applicant; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36837/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 939. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for home care delivery in CHO area 6; the percentage of care delivered through private operators and through direct HSE employment, respectively; the rationale for which applicants receive which care; the length of time applicants are waiting for care; if this differs according to private or HSE delivery; the details of waiting lists; if there...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 940. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1369 of 24 July 2018, the further length of time a person (details supplied) will be waiting to receive home care hours in view of the fact that the person is priority 1 and has been waiting since March 2018 for the care allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36839/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1126. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full-year cost of halving public transport fares; the full-year cost of making public transport free for all; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36599/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Years Sector (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1167. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual cost of the various childcare programmes across her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36598/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Data (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1302. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of eliminating the reduced rates of jobseeker's allowance for persons under 26 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36591/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (7 Sep 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full year cost of the HAP and RAS programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36596/18]

Northern Ireland and Brexit: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will put the case slightly differently from my colleagues in Solidarity in that People Before Profit subscribes to the view set out by James Connolly, namely, that partition on this island would lead to "a carnival of reaction both North and South". In the South, we got the Catholic Church-dominated, anti-woman regime that held sway and persisted until relatively recently and that has been...

Water Conservation: Statements (12 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the current drought and water shortages, people should conserve water as best they can in order that we do not run out of supplies. However, somewhat cynical attempts have been made - not here today but I have heard them in the House in the past week, particularly from Government Deputies - to suggest that if there had been water charges, this would not be happening or we would have...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also thank Deputy Pringle for his fantastic work in producing this Bill and persisting with it to the point that it is going to be passed. I also wish to thank Trócaire, the Stop Climate Chaos Coalition and all those who have championed and supported this Bill. It is hugely important. As others have said, while the impact is modest at one level, it is an absolutely clear signal that...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (12 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not at all.