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Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not accept them.

Topical Issue Debate: Housing Issues (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite constant announcements, promises and plans from the Government about its intention to deal with the housing and homelessness crisis as a matter of top priority, every time the Minister examines that crisis or talks about it and every day that passes, the crisis gets worse. It is a crisis that the Government promised in its programme for Government would be resolved within 100 days...

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To hide behind the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the senior Minister in the Minister of State's Department is the Taoiseach on this issue is, to be honest, preposterous. Has anything changed in the mindset of the Government vis-à-visthe facilitation of the US war machine at Shannon given that there is now a president that even the Government has brought itself to criticise?...

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of deployments of troops there were to Shannon Airport in 2016; the cost to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7720/17]

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite overwhelming public opposition, more than 2.5 million US troops have been facilitated at Shannon Airport since 2003 with the support of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael to conduct bloody wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Yemen, killing hundreds of thousands of people. The public is paying for this. How much are the Defence Forces spending to facilitate the US war machine? Does the...

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have long disagreed with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on the facilitation of the US war machine at Shannon and the bloody consequences of that for Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen and on the spending of money to facilitate that by the Department of Defence and others. Can the Minister of State tell me if the Government intends to continue to spend public money to facilitate the US...

Priority Questions: Shannon Airport Facilities (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly am not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the meeting of the European Union Heads of State or Government in Malta on 3 February 2017. [7033/17]

US Executive Order on Immigration: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Saturday, 11 March, United Against Racism, along with a host of other organisations, including trade unions, Palestinian solidarity groups, anti-war groups, women's rights groups, abortion rights groups, LGBT groups, environmental groups and pretty much anybody who has a progressive bone in their body, will be marching here in Dublin appealing to the Taoiseach not to go to Washington....

US Executive Order on Immigration: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The disabled. One can go through the list. President Trump has put whole nations in his firing line. People understand the mortal threat he represents and they are mobilising across the world on an unprecedented scale. The protests we are seeing in the United States are of a scale that has not been seen since the late 1960s. People understand that this guy represents an absolutely mortal...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Tax Exemptions (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will drop VRT on vehicles specially adapted for disability to assist ongoing access to public transport for those with disabilities and to financially assist taxi drivers looking to purchase such vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7690/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the proposed divestment process and establish an independent working group with representatives of all the patron bodies to formulate a transparent process that puts parents' wishes at the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7669/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider his decision to give the Catholic Church the final say over which patron to divest schools to, in view of the existing disproportionate influence the church has over primary education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7670/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Mental Health Strategies (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 18 January 2017 and his commitment to review the proposal to have an advertisement for Pieta House services in school journals, if he will provide an update. [7574/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of Culture 2025; the way in which it may or may not relate to Creative Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7706/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 195. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the planned allocation of the €5 million for Creative Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7705/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the planned delivery mechanism to achieve the outcomes for the individual art forms under pillar 1; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7707/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 199. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the funding to each local authority, both amounts and rules and guidelines for the spending of these funds under pillar 2; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7709/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 191. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the plans for setting up Creative Ireland; the person or body that will be making decisions in this regard; the details of the relationship between her Department and Creative Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7701/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (15 Feb 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide the terms of reference, the structures and the make up for the planned Creative Ireland advisory committees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7704/17]