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Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So, we are calling the Leaders.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he has had any discussion with the Minister for Social Protection on the inclusion of FIS as a reckonable payment for local authority rent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36048/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Funding (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the names of all foreign companies in receipt of IDA grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2270/17]

Priority Questions: Schools Mental Health Strategies (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider a proposal on behalf of mental health activists to make it mandatory for schools to insert an advertisement for Pieta House and its services on the inside cover of all school journals as a national mental health initiative and in particular to normalise accessing mental health services for young persons; and if he will make...

Priority Questions: Schools Mental Health Strategies (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a tragic fact, but a fact nonetheless, that this country has one of the highest rates of youth suicide in Europe and also a very high incidence of self-harm among young people. It is a complex, multifaceted problem to address. A very simple proposal has been made by supporters of Pieta House and endorsed by Pieta House itself. The proposers and people from Pieta House are here with...

Priority Questions: Schools Mental Health Strategies (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister's positive response and the indication that he takes the proposal and this issue seriously. On another day I might debate the under-resourcing of mental health services for young people with the Minister for Health. The Minister has responded positively to this simple, practical and cost-free proposal. The Minister is probably aware that Pieta House is a fantastic...

Priority Questions: Schools Mental Health Strategies (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I again thank the Minister for the positive response. Several of the recommendations of the Children's Mental Health Coalition highlight this sort of thing as being critical to helping young people with those issues. They include the need for more mental health promotion, for capacity of the primary care sector to increase accessibility of child and adolescent mental health services and for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Healthy Living Strategies (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will make recommendations and provide support to schools to include certain advertisements in their school journals that promote health and well-being of young persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2000/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on the divestment programme commenced by the last Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2003/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the budget granted to a school (details supplied) for its new classroom extension will be increased to cover the current cost of the building; if he will expedite this decision to ensure the costs do not increase further; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1999/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the extra resources as a matter of urgency to a school (details supplied) to end the current situation where there are 33 pupils to one teacher in a specific class; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Gas Networks Ireland (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 230. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide the full remit of Bord Gáis in terms of gas safety, including any responsibility with regard to gas leaks, meter replacement and gas supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2038/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Planning Issues (18 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 239. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any set rules or guidelines with regard to the N11 to preclude a developer putting access to a new housing development from the N11; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2056/17]

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Apollo House occupation over Christmas which was a fantastic action to propel the indescribable housing and homelessness crisis to the top of the political agenda and which received huge support across the board, as noted by Deputy Ruth Coppinger, was a fantastic intervention in this deplorable crisis. It piled further pressure on the Government to address this chronic problem. Again,...

Private Members' Business - Anti-Evictions Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but they need indefinite security of tenure. We need real rights for tenants in order that they do not have to worry every year about whether they will have a roof over their heads. The Bill proposes to extend the notice period for rent increases from 90 days to 180 days and the notice period for eviction after five years of tenancy to at least one full year. It categorises banks and...

Other Questions: Motor Insurance (17 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the way in which the Government's new motor insurance policies will result in affordable premiums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1652/17]

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy - seven and a half minutes each.

Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a Thirty-two county party, People Before Profit welcomes the fact that there will be an election in Northern Ireland. We do not regret the fall of this Executive and we think this election offers an historic opportunity for the people of Northern Ireland to punish the political establishment there and the institutions of Stormont for what our comrades in Northern Ireland are describing as...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome any acceleration of pay restoration for workers, either in the public or private sector. It is positive and is a fantastic vindication of the decision of gardaí and teachers to resist. They deserve the credit for this change in policy by the Government. Now people inside the Lansdowne Road agreement have been the beneficiaries of the justified militancy of gardaí and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Estimates for Public Services 2017 (Revised): Discussion (17 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just for clarification, my point was that those inside the Lansdowne Road agreement have now benefited from the militancy, people power, determination to campaign or whatever one wants to call it, of the teachers and the gardaí. To my mind, it is a vindication of the decision of those workers to fight for proper pay restoration. There is a belated acknowledgment on the Minister's part,...