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Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a specific question. I understand the Minister for Education and Skills is to sign a statutory instrument by the end of this week that essentially closes off the possibility of level 8, Montessori trained teachers being able to work, as they have until now, within the State system in special schools. These teachers are trained in St. Nicholas Montessori College in my constituency and...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still do not think the time being provided is adequate and would briefly like to explain why, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue I am highlighting is how we will deal with a proposal for a directive on country by country reporting on the European Union's efforts to clamp down on aggressive tax avoidance by multinationals. As we all know, this country and companies operating here are at the centre of that controversy. This is specifically directed at multinationals. I find it extraordinary that an all-party...

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mentioned this briefly the other day.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Originally this proposal was not down for debate at all, quite extraordinarily.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did, but I am going to make it again.

Order of Business (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to acknowledge the efforts of Alice in the Whip's office in bringing this to the attention of the Government and allowing for some time. When she asked me whether this was satisfactory, I said some time was better than none.

Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is. It is profiteering.

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also support the Bill, although, as Deputy Coppinger said, we need to go a hell of a lot further and we need to do it very fast. I do not understand the reticence being expressed by the Government and Fianna Fáil about the committee and so on. If this can roll in to highlight the issue, further indicate the urgency of it and roll into any good that comes out - I certainly hope...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just telling the Minister that he has to reach the point at which he acknowledges that the market cannot be allowed to set rents, because the market is setting rents that are absolutely unaffordable for the vast majority of people. If there is no recognition of that, we are going nowhere. The situation is worse. The first time I brought homeless people to the Dáil was in 2012....

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be opposing this motion. Let us state it boldly as it is: the war on drugs has failed and the war on gangland criminality via the Special Criminal Court or other repressive legislation has failed. We are just as concerned as the Minister and, in many cases I suspect, more concerned in that some of the Deputies on the left represent some of the poorest and most disadvantaged areas...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I welcome the Minister of State's willingness to meet the affected parents, the reply is the same bureaucratic answer we are getting from St. John of God community services. Special needs assistants are not a replacement for residential services. The whole point of the school was that it provided vocational supports, which are not provided by special needs assistants who provide...

Topical Issue Debate: Services for People with Disabilities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I attended the public meeting organised by the parents of 162 children in St. Augustine's special school two weeks ago. It was an incredibly emotional, distressing and angry meeting of parents of children with mild and moderate intellectual disabilities who, incredibly, had letters put into their schoolbags by St. John of God telling them the vocational services that are the critical...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the positive response about meeting people. I am concerned the decision about the future governance of the harbour is, according to the Minister's scripted response, a decision between the existing harbour company executive and the council executive. This is not good enough because on all of the major issues, whether it is cruise berths, executive salaries of crazy amounts, such...

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he met with or will meet with the chief executive or any senior officials of Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council regarding the future governance of Dún Laoghaire Harbour as legislated for in the Harbours Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15609/16]

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister will be aware that, for some years now, I have been questioning the policies, status, governance and operations of Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company. I note that, at the weekend, the Minister spoke out, as he has tended to do over the years, against quangos and on his determination to deal with the quangos under his remit. Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is a quango, and a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to establish a Cabinet committee on justice reform; and, if so, when it will meet. [14509/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet committee on health in 2016 to date; and the proposed dates for any upcoming meeting. [14508/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Almost everything that comes into my clinic every week involves housing. No matter how much talk we hear from the Government or how many announcements, of which there are many, are made, it just gets worse. This week, I had a woman come into me who had a stroke three years ago, is partially paralysed, suffered a septic aneurysm and septicaemia recently, has epilepsy and is deaf in one ear....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking the Minister that and I am also asking for the following basic thing. People who are in the absolutely desperate situations I have described must get every support and resource and the staffing necessary to deliver for them within the local authorities. They must have help to find something dignified rather than to just be thrown to the wolves and told to go out and find...