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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the international and EU division of the Taoiseach's Department at all concerned about the massacre that Israel has been perpetrating against unarmed protesters in Gaza for the last number of weeks? Two days before those protests began I begged the Taoiseach to condemn and speak out against any likely Israeli armed attack on those protests but the Taoiseach ignored me in the Dáil...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a recent article and documentary detailing the alleged mishandling of disclosures of serious abuse at a service (details supplied); the measures being taken by her Department in relation to staff and board members for allegedly misleading investigators and victims; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has had engagement with a service (details supplied) in view of alleged mishandling of disclosures of abuse detailed in a recent article and documentary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18895/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 375. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if children born in Mother and Baby Homes will be eligible for redress to address the psychological impact of having been separated from their birth mother; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18590/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures available from her Department to assist a person (details supplied) in order to extricate themselves from homelessness; her plans to address this anomaly for persons in similar situations under 25 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18920/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families in receipt of FIS in circumstances in which the worker is employed in the public sector or the semi-State sector by public or semi-State areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19025/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage and number of unskilled workers over 50 years of age who received full-time employment through Turas Nua from April 2016 to April 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19116/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for families that entered into the affordable housing scheme and now need to move due to geographical or family size need in circumstances in which they are not in a position to increase their mortgage and the clawback is still owing to the council in view of the fact that there is no follow-on to the scheme; and...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. A cost of €58 million to build a school, rather than have the State do it directly, sounds like a hell of a lot to me. Furthermore, we are now discovering that because the traffic going through the Limerick tunnel is not as heavy as was originally envisioned, the State will have to fork out €200 million to make up the shortfall. In conclusion, the other side will...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit is opposed to PPPs as a means to deliver services and infrastructure. Is that ideological? No, that contention essentially arises from logic. Any logical examination of PPPs would suggest they have to be more expensive in terms of delivering services and infrastructure than the traditional method of the State doing it directly, as it has done in the past and used to do...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the closure of 12 hospital beds at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, in January 2018; when these beds will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18336/18]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Chairman, on a point of order, I asked a specific question about Irish-----

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- citizens being thrown out of Israel.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just about Irish citizens being expelled from Israel. Does the Taoiseach have any comment on that?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since all the different strands of Irish politics are throwing in their particular slant on the revolutionary period, I will throw in something of importance. During the whole social revolution that took place in the 1916-21 period, it is a little known fact - the Taoiseach might be horrified at this - that 200 soviets were set up in Ireland between 1918 and 1921.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some, at least, who were fighting in the revolution were not just looking to change the colour of the flag, but actually saw themselves as part of a wider international revolt against a system that put profit before people. Famously in the creamery in Charleville they put up a banner when they took it over saying "We make butter not profits", which was pretty brilliant. That was another...

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]