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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress report of the partnership for Government. [23043/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While Simon and Leo battle it out to succeed the Taoiseach-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government Implementation (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and there might be a dark horse or two - God knows - the programme for Government commitments in the area that is most urgent for the citizens of this country are failing disastrously. The Taoiseach might say to Simon and Leo that they are to keep the campaign short and deal with this housing crisis, which the Taoiseach has helped create. I want to ask a number of specific questions...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wonder whether the African saying the lion roared but gave birth to a mouse might apply to the Government's great plans for Creative Ireland. When the arts were debated here, we heard noble words and fine aspirations from Government speakers who trumpeted their commitment to the arts. What is actually happening? What has actually been discussed in delivering on Creative Ireland? It is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a case of neoliberalism in the arts.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is unbelievable.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: James Joyce would have been banjaxed on that principle.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Ms Feely and Mr. Moran of Age Action. I apologise for being late and missing their contribution but I read their statement. As others have done, I commend Age Action on its ongoing representation of, and advocacy for, older people in this country. A major issue which we all have heard about, and on which I have received representations, is the number of pensioners, particularly...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has Mr Moran been hearing this from quite a few of his members?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On the question of income supports, I may have missed this point, has Age Action outlined a figure of what it is looking for in terms of the increase in the budget?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: While we are on the subject, there is obviously a big controversy in the area of public sector pensions at the moment. I presume that some of the members of Age Action are public sector pensioners. What is Mr. Moran's opinion on the moves being mooted, as I and many workers and unions see it, and on the talk of further eroding public service pensions? There is talk of increases being linked...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Submission: Age Action Ireland (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There would be a cost of €200 million.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on arts, Irish and the Gaeltacht is next meeting. [23042/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Support Schemes (17 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 9 May 2017, the reply to which did not address the question asked, if he will consider a change of policy to allow for greater flexibility for persons who already possess a qualification at a particular level and who wish to obtain a qualification in a different discipline at the same level already...
- Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, can the Government amend a Bill?
- Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With a motion?
- Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a bit spurious.
- Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing forward this Bill. I was curious to see the Government's amendment to a Bill which concerns equal participation in schools. One could not think of something that could appear more obvious or less controversial than such a Bill, yet the Government has put down an amendment signalling its intent to block the further passage of this Bill. That is about as...
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The most recent promise or suggestion of new legislation from the Minister, Deputy Coveney, came this morning in response to a piece in the media about the Robin Hill apartments, which I raised last week. He responded this morning to the huge gaps and loopholes in the residential tenancies legislation, which are allowing vulture funds to evict people, ratchet up rents through back doors and...
- Order of Business (16 May 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Actually the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Simon Coveney, has promised legislation in this area.