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Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should please tell them what he is going to do for them and that his housing solutions are working for them.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (12 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The majority voted for those who promised to get rid of water charges.

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A point I have made on a number of occasions, but which I will make again, is that the Minister is operating a double standard in the various agencies under her Department's remit. In response to a parliamentary question that I put to her on how many staff or employees under the Department had been suspended from their jobs pending an investigation, I was informed the number was 26. I put...

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To continue the point, as Deputy McDonald cannot come in again, if the committee report is not ready by this evening, which I would say is highly possible at this stage, if at all, and a motion flows from that, will the Government allow for a debate on that motion?

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If not-----

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Housing Assistance Payments Data (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons or families that were in receipt of rent allowance that have moved to a HAP tenancy in 2017; the number in 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17948/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will sanction funding for a school (details supplied) for upgrade works that were deferred in summer 2016 and are due to be completed in summer 2017. [18033/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 371. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who was in receipt of disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18000/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 422. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communication he has had with other foreign Ministers or Governments about the savage chemical attack in Syria in recent days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18323/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad (11 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a further progress report on his most recent actions and communications regarding a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18332/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio (6 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request from NAMA the correspondence it had with a company (details supplied) during the due diligence processes, in particular regarding potential fire safety and structural defects and commercial negotiations therein in respect of an area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17305/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme (6 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the detail of the affordable rental scheme; the number of properties which have been secured to date; the costs involved; the numbers of persons that have accessed the scheme; the bodies which manage the scheme; the channels through which persons have accessed the scheme; the amount of further housing which will be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts (6 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the construction projects on which the State has engaged companies (details supplied) as main contractors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17159/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have great respect for religious diversity and people's religious beliefs, to which they are entitled. What is totally unacceptable, however, is the religious segregation of young children, particularly in a country where one religious denomination dominates. What was supposed to be a curriculum for multi-denominational schools, which was all inclusive, was then given over to a Catholic...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider re-examining the model for teaching of faith formation in community national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17093/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Community national schools were established under the Fianna Fáil Government and their purpose was supposed to be to provide inclusive schools for children of all religious backgrounds. The former Minister, Mary Hanafin, effectively sabotaged that effort by commissioning a curriculum that required the religious segregation of schoolchildren for a substantial part of the year. Some...

Ceisteanna - Questions (resumed) - Priority Questions: School Curriculum (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear. There has been a rebellion against the religious segregation required by the Goodness Me, Goodness You curriculum that was set. The Minister should confirm that programme was not set by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, although the community national schools' brochure claim it was. In fact, it was commissioned to Dr. Clare Maloney of the Marino Institute...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not about Mr. Justice Charleton but about the Garda Commissioner.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This has nothing to do with the question the Taoiseach was asked.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Apr 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Garda Commissioner is moving to subvert the commission of investigation.