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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the way in which he plans to address the staffing shortages in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department's allocation in budget 2018 will see the issue of chronic low pay addressed in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction Services Provision (18 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Health when the new support scheme for IVF will be available; the assistance available until then; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44198/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All expert opinion suggests the formation of hurricane Ophelia was due to rising ocean temperatures which are related to global warming. Does that not prompt the Taoiseach to think we need a far more seriously focused approach to dealing with climate change, rather than what we are doing, which is engaged in special pleading as to why we should be allowed to continue with increased CO2...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In regard to the discrimination against pensioners discussed earlier, I and several others raised this issue when the Taoiseach was the Minister for Social Protection, and he acknowledged then that there was problem with the averaging and a problem with people who did not benefit from the homemaker's credit being discriminated against because it was not retrospective. He acknowledged that a...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that previously but when will that be done?

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed. At the Business Committee I raised the issue of not debating the double taxation agreements with Kazakhstan and Macao.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle does not know because I have not explained it.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I need to explain why. Kazakhstan is, in effect, a dictatorship. The European Parliament has passed four resolutions outlining major problems with human rights abuses, arrests, imprisonments and the seizure of the property of civil society opponents and political opposition figures.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Parliament-----

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have one minute. That is the rule.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have one minute in which to explain why we are opposing something.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should not ignore human rights abuses and the denial of democracy in Kazakhstan. They are systematic and ongoing and have been reported by human rights bodies across the globe. In doing this deal we are ignoring these issues.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no response. Can we not even ask for one?

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer the question.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely not true.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Data (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the affordable child care scheme; the current and projected funding; the take-up across the country; the level of subsidies being given; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43792/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Childcare Scheme Implementation (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 514. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the takeup of the affordable childcare scheme rolled out in September 2017 by area and cost of subsidies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43797/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Funding (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 515. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will report on the €35 million allocated to her Department for childcare schemes in budget 2017; the schemes it funded; if she will provide a breakdown of funding for the different schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43798/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Investigations (17 Oct 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 516. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 27 September 2017, if further information has been received by Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43832/17]