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Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am all for process.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the Order that was read out.

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is to do with the entire Order, including Tuesday, and on foot of the discussion had at the Business Committee. I proposed to the Business Committee that if the dispute at Bus Éireann was not moving towards resolution there would be a full debate this week on Bus Éireann. At the time it was agreed by all, after a lengthy discussion that dominated the Business Committee, that...

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is attacking bus services in Dublin as well.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Avoidance (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a report (details supplied) on the tax rates paid by international banks here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16466/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has read the recent report by a person (details supplied) into NAMA, which claims it has failed in delivering its remit and has potentially lost €18 billion for the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16467/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tender Process (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 215. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount groups (details supplied) will each be paid for assistance in the flotation of a bank; when and the way the tenders were advertised for these contracts; and the details of any meetings he had with these groups or representatives of these groups in the past year. [16665/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. 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 persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youthreach Programme Staff (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of the circulars for revised pay scales and allowances for persons recruited to direct entry grades and if the circulars are applicable to the position of Youthreach resource persons from 2010 to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16749/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Freedom of Information Remit (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 332. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if business improvement districts established under the Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Act 2006 will be brought in under the Freedom of Information Acts in the interest of openness, accountability and transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16663/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 374. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there have been internal recommendations in his Department to change the criteria for accessing back to education allowance; if he will consider allowing greater access to persons applying to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16607/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 538. To ask the Minister for Health the way he has ensured the availability of the meningitis B vaccine from the HSE in order to prevent the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in the UK and Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16533/17]

Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or Sinn Féin, of course, but there is also the Hague Convention of 1907, which defines neutrality. It is very clear in its definition of it. Article 2 of that convention states "Belligerents are forbidden to move troops or convoys of either munitions of war or supplies across the territory of a neutral Power." That convention also states "A neutral power must not allow any of the...

Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This debate on the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict (Hague Convention) Bill 2016 is important in and of itself. It also raises several issues about our role in conflict, however. While I support the Bill, I will consider tabling amendments to it on Committee Stage. I am also concerned about the motivation behind this Bill and why the Government is introducing...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak in a similar vein. I have not been a participant in the debates on this Bill to date but I am very supportive of the legislation. I believe it is a significant step forward in a progressive direction to have supervised injecting facilities and to try to create a safer environment for people with addiction problems in which to inject. I would not support any amendment that...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will stay with the theme of disability. Probably 1,000 people outside the House are extremely angry regarding the failure of the Government to honour the promise made in the programme for Government. As the Minister knows, there have been several protests in recent months demanding that the Government stick to its promise. It is too late to stick to its promise to ratify the UN...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I pay tribute to United Against Racism and the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland - I know Mr. Memet Uludağ and Mr. Lucky Khambule and others are in the Visitors Gallery - for their efforts in bringing about this debate and in pressing the motion which has been signed by 37 Deputies. I think it is a matter of vital importance. The Taoiseach was praised and praised himself lavishly...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Citizen Information Services (30 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the details of all plans to restructure the Citizens Information Services and MABS; the cost of this restructure, including any reports he has on the consequences this will have on service users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15859/17]

Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) 2016 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 7:In page 15, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: “Review and scrutiny 19. The Minister shall, as part of the annual Budget process, produce a report on the operation of the KDB including a consideration of the intersection of the KDB with other tax expenditure measures and its impact on the delivery of an effective tax rate for corporations.”.