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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My main question is about Palestine but I will briefly ask about the united Ireland issue. I agree with having the committee but if we want to further the drive towards Irish unity, we need to immediately separate church and State, get our schools and hospitals out of the hands of the Catholic Church and do something about the appalling lack of a universal, proper national health service...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee C, European Union, including Brexit, last met. [5691/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if persons applying for naturalisation that are not decided upon within the six-month guideline will be provided with a detailed explanation as to the reasons for the delay including the provision to the person of additional information required to process the application in a timely manner. [5694/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Community Rating (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 402. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend the lifetime community rating scheme to make credits available to persons on low incomes who qualified for medical cards from 2008 and to those who had health insurance prior to 2004 in cases in which insurance companies no longer hold records of these persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5794/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 594. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a company engaged in employing a person through JobBridge, JobPath, community employment, Tús or a similar scheme is vetted to ensure it complies with employment and health and safety law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5748/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 595. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a service user engaged in JobBridge, JobPath, community employment, Tús or a similar scheme leaves the scheme early due to non-compliance with employment law and-or the conditions of the scheme, the provisions that are made for this situation in the way in which the person is dealt with by her Department; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (6 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the agency responsible for taking action against a landlord who discriminates against a person on the basis of refusing to take a housing assistance payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5786/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Property (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, the board, students, parents and teachers of Clonkeen College were shocked and dismayed to discover last May that the Christian Brothers intended to sell their school playing pitches to property developers, despite previous promises from the Christian Brothers that the fields would be given to school in perpetuity as long as it continued to exist. Some €450,000...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Property (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Expressions of concern about this are not enough. We have an extraordinary situation which could have been resolved if the Minister told the Christian Brothers that it is not taking the pitches to pay off the redress scheme because that is punishing future generations of kids for the crimes of the Christian Brothers against past generations of kids. The Minister should have done that at the...

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move Amendment No. 3:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann notes that” and substitute the following: “— the number of individuals or couples with a housing need that are neither eligible to apply for social housing because of the low income thresholds, nor able to afford to purchase a private home at current prices, far exceeds the approximately...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just before Christmas, the Minister, Deputy Regina Doherty, promised legislation to deal with zero-hour contracts and other problems. As we know, workers in their tens of thousands are on if-and-when contracts or in precarious employment, and sectoral agreements are not being adhered to. Yesterday I met workers working on the historic Boland's Mills site which is being run by a contractor...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When will that legislation come in to secure the rights of workers so that they are not being exploited and abused?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legal Proceedings (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of the court case scheduled to begin on 15 March 2018 between a school (details supplied) and a trust with regard to whether the sale of the playing pitches at this school will be underwritten; if the school will be supported in its efforts to keep the pitches for use by students into the future; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether the implication of the collapse of a company (details supplied) is that all PPPs should be taken back into public ownership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Creative Ireland Programme (1 Feb 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a theatre in education organisation; his further plans to design a programme for bringing professional theatre makers into the classroom as has been done with the music generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5289/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements: Supplementary Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E (health) will next meet. [1681/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the contributors for helping to develop my understanding of the whole industry. On the broader picture of things, given the enormous potential the sector has for employment at many levels and to develop Ireland's reputation, we need to dramatically increase the amount of Government investment in film and the arts generally. It has been the poor relation of Government spending...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What sort of figure are we looking at annually for section 481?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The tax expenditure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Irish Film Industry: Discussion (31 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is still a lot of money. Is it correct that in addition to this figure there are grants and loans?