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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that persons suffering from mental health problems are given full access to emergency services on a 24-7 basis in all areas and that children under 18 years of age with mental health problems are not discriminated against in receiving age-appropriate emergency department and inpatient services; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 611. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that in any forthcoming review by his Department, a school (details supplied) will not see any reduction in the vital services available to the children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2002/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Planning Issues (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 683. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the advice he would give to a person who is subjected to constant smoke in their garden and through their windows from a neighbouring chimney on a single storey extension, in view of the fact that a planning inspector has confirmed that it is not contravening any planning laws yet is causing great nuisance; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety (31 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 740. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the advice she would provide to a person who has had an accident in work due to lax health and safety practices and is dissatisfied with the outcome of the Health and Safety Authority's inspection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4471/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not asking for Enterprise Ireland.

Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At many levels, I welcome what the Minister says, but there are a few details I would like to hear to be more assured. First, there should be absolutely no consideration of the Government selling its stake in Ardmore. Critical to maintaining it is for the Government to retain that stake. The zoning itself is not sufficient protection because the facility could be bought, somebody could...

Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers have the expertise.

Topical Issue Debate: Film Industry (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister, Deputy Mitchell O'Connor, is aware, Ardmore Studios is synonymous with the Irish film industry. It is, in effect, the birthplace of the Irish film industry as an industry. Since it opened in 1958, it has propelled Irish film making into the top flight of film making in the world. 4 o’clock It has played host to some of the greatest actors in the world - Richard...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that literally or figuratively?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear. I want to see pay restoration and a hell of a lot more of it. I was talking to some of the service officers in here and they are nearly crying as a result of some of the pay levels they have to put up with. They need this pay. What I do not like, which was implicit in what the Minister said, is that it is essentially one or the other - it is services that are cash starved...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the source of the money to bring forward pay restoration for public sector workers earning below €65,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3416/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that we do not accept the Minister must rob Peter to pay Paul. Workers are entitled to pay restoration, even in excess of the proposed €1,000, but we do not accept that money should be taken from services to fund that. We are seeking a commitment that services which are starved of funding will not be hit as a result of this measure. The Minister likes to ask where else...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in his deliberations on bringing forward pay restoration to April 2017, he considered dealing with the outstanding issue of pay levels for new entrants to the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3417/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am returning to the issue of equal pay for equal work. As the Minister knows, members of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland are balloting this month. Quite rightly, the association's central executive is recommending the rejection of the Government's proposals. The Government is continuing to refuse to commit to the simple principle of equal pay for equal work for which...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: With respect, the Minister's waffle is not an answer to my question about equal pay for equal work. Under the new proposals, a person who started teaching after 2011 will earn €6,000 less in his or her first year of teaching than somebody doing the same job who happened to come in before 2011. That figure will be €5,800 in the second and third years of teaching and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The message the Government is sending when it issues this threat is "it is our way or the highway". I remind the House that no trade unionist ever had a ballot on the system of pay apartheid that was unilaterally imposed by the Government to deny young people equal pay for equal work. Given that new-entrant nurses are receiving 10% less pay than existing nurses, is the Minister surprised...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government change tack?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The facts speak for themselves. The number of people in homeless accommodation has increased by 91% in the past two years and 34% in the past year since this Government came to office. How the Minister can possibly claim it is working is beyond me. There is the issue of the disposal of sites like those on Oscar Traynor Road, Shanganagh in Shankill or the NAMA sites in Cherrywood and so...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true. It is a fact. What does the Minister say about the Irish Glass Bottle site? Only 10% of that site - a NAMA site for which this country paid a bitter price - will be social housing. Why is it not 100% social housing?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my area there is talk about provision.