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Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I will get the positive stuff out of the way at the beginning.

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any legislation that does anything positive to enhance the rights of those with disabilities or to move them a little closer to some level of equality, which our society fails to give people with disabilities on many levels, has to be welcomed. The specific provisions of the part of this Bill that is actually written that are to be welcomed have been mentioned. As has been mentioned, people...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Ms King and Dr. McDonnell for coming in. Before getting into some of the specifics, do they agree that with the threat, challenge or whatever one wants to call it of Brexit and the concerns involved, there are the immediate and challenging issues that are related and that we confront but which have served to highlight much bigger problems, both economic and political, that predate...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am deadly serious about the forestry sector because it has significant potential, which has not been taken seriously. Despite the significant employment potential it offers, development in forestry is being hampered by European Union state aid rules. Renewable energy is another area with significant potential. I ask Ms King to comment. I fully agree with Ms King on the need for heavy...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did Ms King express the view that state aid is the key to making this transition and addressing the immediate problem she identified?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everyone else got a supplementary question. Will the Chairman allow me one?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions on wage inequality. There was a report today on the gender pay gap widening. It reduced during the recession but that it has widened since is an alarming and disappointing sign. Do the witnesses have comments on that? Due to the cuts imposed during the austerity period, pay equality is at the heart of the teachers’ dispute. Nurses and various other people,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had or is planning any discussions with the Taoiseach on issues that he should raise when he visits the White House in March 2017; if these issues include changes to US foreign policy with regards to Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8769/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had any contact with the US President, Mr. Trump, and-or the Trump Administration with regard to his support for the proposed move of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8768/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, tenancies that have been secured in 2014, 2015 and 2016; the length of time each of these tenancies is for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8954/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current salary scales for principal, principal higher scale and assistant secretary in the Civil Service; if these grades will attract the €1,000 per annum increase with effect from March 2017; if this increase will apply to the pensions of those grades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8879/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the policy of his Department to replace staff as they leave the HSE; if so, when the consultant orthodontist in Loughlinstown hospital will be replaced; if not, the location that persons requiring orthodontic surgery in the catchment area of Loughlinstown hospital can be referred to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8940/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will grant adopted persons unfettered access to their birth certificates and adoption records. [9156/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will remove the proposed undertaking in section 41 of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9157/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 249. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the compelling reasons ground for refusing the release of information in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 only applies when adopted persons are seeking information. [9158/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 250. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way the release of information to an adopted person might endanger the life of a person. [9159/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 251. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the national adoption contact preference register is put on a statutory footing in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9160/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that information sources holding records pertaining to illegal adoptions, particularly instances in which no adoption order exists, will be compelled under the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 to transfer their records to the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [9161/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to reach out to the more than 2,000 people who were sent from Ireland to America for adoption from the 1940s to the 1970s. [9162/17]