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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: At some point it will be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use Regulation Bill 2016: Discussion (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish something would.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Multidenominational Schools (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider re-examining the model for teaching of faith formation in the community national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16700/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Multidenominational Schools (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the advice given by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA, to his Department regarding the separation of children for faith formation in community national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16699/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Multidenominational Schools (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on the situation in community national schools regarding the separation of children for faith formation classes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16698/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a project (details supplied) will be advised as to whether its revised building project to relieve overcrowding will be funded by his Department; the timeframe for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16696/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if revised pay scales and allowances for persons recruited to certain direct entry grades are applicable to the position of Youthreach resource person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16697/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will sanction the necessary funds for a school (details supplied) for the much needed upgrade works that were deferred in 2016 and are due to be carried out in 2017. [17146/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service Remuneration (5 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the 1984 Civil Service spouses and children's superannuation scheme conforms with the provision of the Payment of Wages Act 1991 on the necessity for written consent from employees for the deduction to be made from their wages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16976/17]
- Brexit: Statements (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Mick Barry. Deputy Adams said that Theresa May does not care about the people of this island, North or South, and he is absolutely right. Frankly, she does not care about the vast majority of people in Britain, but she certainly does not care about the people here, North or South. She has allowed, and I suspect she will continue to allow, her cynical...
- Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Minister answer the question on Transport Infrastructure Ireland-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest that after this discussion, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport should meet the transport workers who provide the transport service. They will explain to him that this crisis has been manufactured, the game is rigged and the playing field is not level. Everything has conspired to force this dispute. The workers who have been suffering on the picket line for 12 days are...
- Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I pay tribute to the determination and resolve of the 2,400 bus workers who have spent 12 days on the picket line defending themselves against unilateral and savage cuts to their pay and the public transport system. In the Minister's attempt to justify his absence from the pitch and failure to intervene in this matter, he has repeated endlessly the mantra that he does not have a...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: His life is on the line now.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On page 144 of the programme for Government, under the heading "Promoting Fundamental Rights", it states:We will promote fundamental rights, the rule of law... We will continue to protect and promote human rights... and to support the work of Human Rights Defenders. This evening, the Halawa sisters, along with human rights organisations, will gather outside the Dáil because of the...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just so we are clear, this was discussed at length. It was the issue that dominated the Business Committee, and the agreement was that we would definitely have Topical Issues allocated today, three of them completely. However, it was argued strongly that if the strike continued that would not be adequate. It was suggested last Thursday that we could not be certain whether the strike was...
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there a commitment that is going to happen?
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what was agreed.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sort of.
- Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue I raised was discussed at the Business Committee at length-----