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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is also a problem in my area.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Battle Groups (9 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total cost to the Exchequer of Irish participation in the EU battle groups since their foundation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33813/16]

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is pro-choice.

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, Deputy Mattie McGrath is perfectly entitled to his views on us but he should withdraw the remark about us spitting at gardaí.

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What did the Deputy see?

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What did the Deputy see?

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is disgraceful.

Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As far as we are concerned, Deputies are paid too much. We believe the pay of public representatives should be linked to that of those they represent. In this way, public representatives would have an incentive to improve the lot of the majority. Part of the disconnect between politics and the majority of people is in the fact that the material circumstances of public representatives, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What months will it cover?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister understood the other question. With the winding-up of the CEC and the CETS programmes, those who were availing of them are telling me that they will be required under the new scheme to make a bigger contribution to expensive child care from their already low incomes. Consequently, they will be in a worse position. It will be more difficult for them to go to work...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I am talking about.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a breakdown of all new funds allocated to early child care for 2017 and the way in which this money will be allocated; the Estimates for budget 2018 to maintain the services for 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33334/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question follows from Deputy Ryan's, in a way. There is no doubt that we need to move in the direction of assisting people with the punitive cost of child care. We also need to underpin parental choice. We need to ensure that it will actually achieve what the Minister hopes it will. Given the amount of money involved, I worry whether it can achieve that. Is the €32 million the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Departmental Budgets (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The scheme does not start until September 2017. How long does the funding of 32 million run into next year? What is the full year cost of the universal and targeted elements? I am in favour of targeted and universal elements. I recognise that people working in child care have to be paid properly and so on, and that we need to develop capacity. Given all of those requirements and the fact...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unfortunately, I could not attend the dialogue last week because I had a commitment-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with Deputy Brendan Howlin. There will not always be agreement but there will be agreement in some areas and we should try to achieve agreement in these areas and work together regardless of whether it is taking up issues with the European Union or the British Government around things like grant funding in Northern Ireland, making sure we do not have a hard Border and other issues...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

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Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nobody else was interrupted.

Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing (Extraction of Hydrocarbon) Bill 2016: First Stage (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing and all other practices to extract Hydrocarbon from coal seams, shale rock and tight sands in Ireland. I am aware that the week before last we debated Deputy Tony McLoughlin's Bill which I supported to ban fracking. In parallel with whatever work he was doing on that Bill,...

Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing (Extraction of Hydrocarbon) Bill 2016: First Stage (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."