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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Easter Rising Commemorations (25 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Indeed. That needs to be commemorated and remembered. The Limerick Soviet, for example, was an extraordinary event over six weeks. Workers took over, printed their own currency and saw themselves as aligned with a big international movement. It was not just a parochial event, but part of a big international thing. The commemorations need to acknowledge the different strands of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What, if anything, is the EU saying about the deaths of 41 unarmed Palestinians in recent weeks? These unarmed protestors were shot by Israeli snipers in acts of cold and calculated murder. The latest victims include Tahrir Mahmoud Wahba, a deaf teenager aged 18 who was shot last Friday, and Abdullah Muhammad al-Shamali, another youth who has just died of his wounds. This brings the number...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (25 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discussions he has had with his counterparts in Europe regarding the growing international movement to combat plastics pollution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14028/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (25 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if original bank statements are required in order for her Department to carry out a means test; if information on statements is allowed to be redacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Places (25 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a concession will be made for a person (details supplied) to continue their community employment scheme onto the service support scheme until retirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18282/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the statement as one of aspiration. However, we are coming late to the party and the statement is somewhat general and lacking in specific detail. We need to move to real projects and investment which will make this a reality. Biological waste is a resource but we are not using it while doing things that militate against it. Building a huge incinerator in Dublin, for example,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach putting a priority on filling these vacancies in NESC? What role will the council play and is the Taoiseach putting the need to deal with the housing and homelessness crisis as a central urgent priority? There may be issues competing for the title of the most pressing economic and social issue but I believe it is the housing crisis. Yesterday, a bus driver, who would be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national policy statement on the bioeconomy recently published by his Department. [17789/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Disability Funding and Disability Proofing Budget 2019: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all of the delegations for their informative contributions to the committee. What I heard loud and clear from all them is that we need to rid ourselves of the silos and to ensure interconnectedness between Departments on disability issues. Dr. McCarthy suggested that the Department of the Taoiseach should be the link Department, which is a straightforward request we can make. It...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Disability Funding and Disability Proofing Budget 2019: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is really unfair. As far as I am concerned, it is bonkers. Perhaps the witnesses would comment. I think the issue for this lady is that she is not eligible for a free travel pass because she is not in receipt of a disability payment, which is crazy. That she was issued with a fine is also crazy.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Disability Funding and Disability Proofing Budget 2019: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My final question is about the lack of consistency at DART stations in terms of accessibility, advance notice of travel requirements in relation to access and the removal of personnel who assist in that regard from some of the DART stations. Perhaps the witnesses would also comment on this issue.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Disability Funding and Disability Proofing Budget 2019: Discussion (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I ask one last question? It is very short. I forgot about it with the initial questions. When refugees come into the country, do the witnesses keep an eye on the extent to which, as part of our refugee resettlement and acceptance programmes, we try to assist people with disabilities? I ask because I am dealing with a family from Gaza who are in Turkey. Four of them are severely...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has reviewed the risk assessment report and the due diligence report into Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company received by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; his views on these reports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17784/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Staff (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the pay, conditions and pensions of the staff of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company will not be undermined in the course of the transfer of the company to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities Staff (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the contract of a person (details supplied) was recently renewed; if so, the duration of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17787/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he plans to meet with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to discuss the transfer of Dún Laoghaire harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17785/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbour Authorities (24 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the motion that was passed by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council at a meeting on 6 March 2018 requesting that he make the necessary funds available to bring Dún Laoghaire harbour into taking-in-charge standards to facilitate the speedy transfer of the harbour to the council; and if he will make a statement on...

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Gino Kenny, with seven minutes for me and three for him.

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are having this debate because I requested it at the Business Committee a few weeks ago. I thank the other parties on the committee and the Ceann Comhairle for agreeing. My request was prompted by the fact that the Sick of Plastic campaign's day of action is this Saturday and I was keen that the House would debate the matter before that positive initiative, which will involve many...

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: More than 100 years ago James Joyce, in his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, described how a priest, Fr. Arnall, gave lectures to schoolchildren about the evils of the flesh and how they would suffer hellfire and damnation if they in any way gave into feelings of sexuality or even acknowledged it. In that chapter he brilliantly counterposed the denial of sexuality enforced by...