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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (2 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the new legal services regulator has a remit to examine cases retrospectively; if any statute of limitations applies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10982/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (2 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the travel visa requirements that apply to a person (details supplied). [10990/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (2 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the checks and balances in place to ensure third level institutions are not using public funds to access legal services to defend themselves against persons who have no access to similar legal services thus placing them at a disadvantage to the publicly funded institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10978/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (2 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans for a social welfare programme for artists. [10805/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (2 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to increase funding to achieve the aims of Creative Ireland. [10804/17]

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will probably not take all my time because I have to rush off to a Right2Water meeting at 6 o'clock.

Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I know, and still some people want to charge for it. It is extraordinary, is it not? I support the proposals in the Fianna Fáil motion relating to the collapse of Setanta Enterprise Insurance and generally unregulated motor insurance firms and the measures needed to deal with the consequences. In particular, I support the importance of compensating those who have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to review the decision on Gaelscoil Phádraig. It is in a disadvantaged area which nobody would doubt. The children in the school suffer disadvantage and have been shafted for 20 years. Even schools with DEIS status are not being resourced properly. The Holy Family school in Dunedin Park in Monkstown Farm applied for permission to undertake a summer works programme...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am looking for fairness.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister look at the schools mentioned?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which schools are judged for DEIS status; if he is satisfied that all schools in disadvantaged areas are receiving the support and resources they need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10503/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The shame and obscenity of child and family poverty, deprivation and now homelessness has increased dramatically and consistently in the years since Fine Gael has been in government. One way the Minister can try to address that is to give resources to pupils in disadvantaged schools but the criteria for allocating DEIS status are not doing that for schools in my area. Even where schools...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Gaelscoil Phádraig, in Loughlinstown, was refused DEIS status on its application. This is in an area where every other school in the area has DEIS status because it is an area of high disadvantage. The Minister's criteria are not fit for purpose in judging these matters. For example, because they take into account where the children live, children who are living in emergency...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the sub-committee discussed the contributory State pension? In 2012, when Deputy Burton was a Minister in the previous Government she made changes to the contributory pension scheme. At the time we were told the new system was fairer and would reward those with more contributions but in reality it has turned out to be a massive rip off with 36,000 pensioners - the number is rising all...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform last met. [8776/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet committee on health has met recently. [8468/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Cabinet committee on health is worth anything at all, it should be concerned, as a priority, with the extreme suffering of people in this country who need urgent medical help. Has the committee discussed the situation of Sarah-Ann Mitchell and the promise made three weeks ago by the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, to meet her mother, Karen? Sarah-Ann is suffering from scoliosis...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I most certainly am not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do so at the request of the parents whose children are suffering.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister promised action would be taken three weeks ago.