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Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will give two minutes of my time to Deputy Brassil.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise. I always get the two Deputies mixed up.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the new politics at work, the left is giving time to Fianna Fáil, but it is taking the right position on the Bill. I commend Deputy Pringle for bringing forward this excellent Bill. Trócaire and a rake of other NGOs and environmental groups are campaigning in support of the Bill. It is a simple practical Bill to try to move in a serious direction towards addressing the...

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not increasing. The Government wants to cut routes and privatise them. Several routes in my area have already been cut.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Minister of State.

Fossil Fuel Divestment Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The truth hurts. The Government overrides proper building standards when it comes to passive house standards and insulation because it would upset the developers. This is the reason. The Government has special pleading on Ireland's CO2 targets and we have no chance, according to anybody looking at it seriously, of reaching the targets necessary to meet our Paris commitment. The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Disability rights activists are outside the Dáil as we speak, and I am passing on their request to the Tánaiste. They want to know when the promised legislation to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will come before the House, be debated and ratified? One of those outside made a very simple point to me, namely, that North Korea, a tin-pot...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure that is true of North Korea.

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]