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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Schools Facilities (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To continue on the question of Clonkeen College, I find the Minister's hands-off approach on this matter somewhat difficult to understand. I remind him that the Christian Brothers is selling Clonkeen's lands in order to pay redress for child abuse. I ask the Minister if he thinks that it is acceptable that the Christian Brothers discharges its debt for historic child abuse by taking pitches...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is acceptable that seven members of the board of a school (details supplied) had to go to court in order to protect the school's playing pitches and the public investment in the school; the actions he will take in regard to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52201/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised with the Minister on several occasions, including by way of meeting, the fate of the playing pitches at Clonkeen College. As the Minister is aware, the Christian Brothers are planning to sell 7.5 acres of land used as playing pitches by Clonkeen College. Seven members of the board of management have been forced to take High Court proceedings to prevent this sale, which will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have tabled several parliamentary questions to the Minister on this issue. In the most recent parliamentary question I asked the Minister for the details of the so-called binding agreement referenced by the Christian Brothers and recycled by him in various responses. The Minister's response was that the Department has not seen the contacts for sale. In regard to the case being taken to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could alter it, for example, by subjecting it to compulsory purchase order. When I previously suggested this to the Minister his response was that the Department cannot do that but it can and does do so by asking local authorities to compulsorily purchase land for school building. I would suggest that the Minister do that in this instance and thus save the board of management...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he will take to protect the playing pitches for the students of a school (details supplied) into the future in view of his Department's investment in the school over the years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52014/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will progress plans to ensure equal access to education for all pupils independent of their religion; his views on whether the repeal of section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act 2000 is necessary to ensure this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52015/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) can expect to have its school building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52013/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he envisages ensuring equal access to education in view of the derogation in equality legislation that allows schools to offer a place to a child of one religion over another; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52011/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is an offence under the Employment Equality Acts 1998 to 2015 regarding terms and conditions of employment on the ground of disability to oblige disabled civil servants be members of the 1984 spouses and children's superannuation scheme, in view of the fact that some disabled civil servants due to physical disability or...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) who has lived here since the age of nine and has a number of naturalised siblings is still be waiting for a decision on their application for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52209/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (6 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available to persons with an eating disorder, including residential care and emergency care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52113/17]

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first thing that young teachers, nurses and other public servants should take from the Minister's response is that they should continue to campaign on this issue because their campaign is working. It is clearly the pressure of the ASTI, the TUI and the INTO, in coming together to oppose the latest deal which does not fully restore pay or deal with pay equality, that has forced the...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said I could not move the amendment.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say that.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was making a contribution at the time. Obviously, I did not say I could not make a contribution.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a matter of record that we cannot move the amendments to provide for pay equality. That is what we said.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have already spoken about the issue of pay inequality on the amendment that was ruled out of order. I am aware that quite a few teachers and other public servants are watching this debate and it is worth explaining to them because they probably do not know that our amendments and those of others - Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, Solidarity-People Before Profit, Deputies Clare Daly, Mick...

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very moderate it was too.

Public Service Pay and Pensions Bill 2017: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we proposed in the amendments ruled out of order, this section should include a provision to end the pay inequality imposed on new entrants to the Civil Service after 2011 or 2012. We will move on presently to a more detailed discussion of the pension levy and the punishment provisions of the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation. However, the pay...