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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (4 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the need to accelerate the separation of church and State in the area of education and in particular to ensure that no particular religious ethos compromises the objectivity of education in schools was recognised following the referendum to repeal the eighth amendment of the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29390/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Charges (4 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce or abolish the student contribution for third level students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29386/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (4 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to remove apprenticeship fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29387/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (4 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reduce the non-adjacent rate of the grant below the current 45 km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29388/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (4 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if part-time and further education students will receive the same supports as full-time students in the same circumstances; if a hardship fund will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29389/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (4 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Health when the Bill to legislate for access to abortion here will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29481/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (4 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 272. To ask the Minister for Health the legal advice he has received on the publication of the legislation to allow for abortion here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29482/18]

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What research has been done to ensure that burning in the uplands in March will not damage bird habitats as a background to introducing this measure in this Bill? The answer is none. Under the birds directive, the Minister is required to safeguard the habitats of these birds but she is introducing a measure which potentially endangers them without doing the necessary background research,...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are doing it all over again I am afraid.

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Wallace for putting forward this Bill. People Before Profit will support it. I thank the Deputy for highlighting, once again, the obscene issue of land-hoarding and property speculation by investors, developers and property speculators of various sorts. Indeed, I tried to do the same with my own motion a couple of weeks ago dealing with different aspects of this same...

Urban Regeneration and Housing (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what is going on. A small group of people are profiteering on the backs of the misery of huge numbers of people. This Bill is attempting to impose punitive measures on that kind of speculation and I warmly welcome it.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is fairly bizarre that in a Bill entitled the Heritage Bill the Government would propose measures that will destroy or threaten with extinction parts of our natural heritage. Like Deputy Smith, I would like the Minister to explain what response she has to the concerns being raised by the people who are knowledgeable and expert in the protection of wildlife. One of the junior Ministers...

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do we not speak in the order of the amendments?

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought the Ceann Comhairle followed the order of the amendments.

Heritage Bill 2016: Report Stage (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Ceann Comhairle state which ones were physical alternatives to amendment No. 15?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. That is later.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Between 2011 and 2017 applications for second level teaching have dropped by 62%. By any measure this is a dramatic reduction in the number of people who apply to go into second level teaching. The Minister can quote figures about increased recruitment, which is not hard given what happened during the austerity period and the slashing of public sector numbers, but the fact remains that we...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been some unwinding of FEMPI but at the end of the current pay agreement public sector workers will still be earning less than they were earning in 2008. This is pretty extraordinary. In 2018 public servants will earn less than in 2008. Government spokespeople claim that it has closed 75% of the new entrant pay gap. This is not true. For the first 13 years the gap is more like...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to remove pay inequality for new entrants in the public sector in view of the current economic position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29109/18]

Establishment of Special Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (3 Jul 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will have two and a half minutes each. While we are happy to participate in this special committee, I have to say that we need more than special committees if we are to do something about Ireland's disastrous failure to address the issue of climate change and play its part in contributing to the reduction in CO2 emissions. We have many targets and aspirations that are simply not being...