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- 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.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The goalposts have been changed.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what the Minister of State told us in November.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The application was submitted by an Irish-registered doctor, which is what the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, told us last November is required.
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government does not even know how many private swimming pools there are.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the process and timeframe for the Government's decision on the options laid out in the Cassells report on funding for third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10455/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for Music Generation; if the success of this initiative will result in similar initiatives for other art forms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10483/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to restoring maintenance grants for postgraduate students; the cost for doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10454/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider his decision to give the Catholic Church the final decision 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. [10457/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. 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. [10456/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a re-entry visa for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10652/17]
- Knowledge Development Box (Certification of Inventions) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise to Deputy Mattie McGrath as I must leave.