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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not about the personal feelings of politicians; this is about the welfare and future of the people of this country. The Taoiseach's unexpected decision to signal that he is stepping down as Taoiseach bears all the signs of a Government that has lost confidence in itself because it knows it has lost the confidence of the majority of people in this country. We do not need a shifting...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the democratic thing to do. The Taoiseach says that we in the Opposition think things should be perfect. No, we do not - we know perfection is not possible. However, in one of the richest countries in the world, we think it is shameful that we have the worst homelessness crisis in the history of the State and it gets worse week in, week out and month in, month out. Some 4,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Acting Chair. I have to go over to the Dáil shortly for questions but I will be raising Palestine. I thank Deputy Brady for producing the Bill and the IPSC and Sadaka for their ongoing tremendous work in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they face their darkest hour. The campaigning has been going on for many years in both cases and they are to be much commended....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 151 of 29 February 2024, the steps a person (details supplied) can take to ensure they receive their renewed passport in their new name; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12446/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Council (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 548. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the conditions imposed on arts companies that received funding grants from the Arts Council in relation to adherence to employment law; if sanctions are imposed on such companies if they are found to be in breach of employment law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 558. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her Department's working definition of public service broadcasting; if the term should be taken to imply all activity by State-owned broadcasters, or only activity taken by such broadcasters in service of a defined public service mission; if there is a definition; whether there are plans to ring-fence funding for particular...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 559. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views of the self-description by a company (details supplied) that it is a commercial public service broadcaster; whether her Department will take any action to publicly to clarify whether the term public service broadcasting is applicable to commercial providers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12336/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a tenant’s top-up led them to accumulating arrears would he consider HAP rates for this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11788/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason part V council tenancies are excluded from the tenant purchase scheme when other tenants of council owned houses are included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date of the DNA working group established to consider the potential role of DNA in the context of the provision of the statutory tracing service under the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department has taken to inform adoptees and mother and baby home survivors of any potential role for DNA technologies in tracing birth information, given the diverse levels of technological literacy across society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on how to approach birth information and tracing policy where a birth parent or other individual with access to relevant information is withholding information or otherwise failing to cooperate with an individual who is seeking out their birth information; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1269. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for a new company providing home support to be placed on the approved providers list in CHO6; if the tendering process only occurs once per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1300. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of reports that Covid testing laboratory staff employed by private providers were excluded from the Covid-19 recognition payment, although they carried out Covid testing on behalf of the HSE; if it was the deliberate policy of his Department or the HSE to exclude such workers; if so, to supply any details about how this policy was arrived...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1376. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the scopolinem patch; if there are plans to make it available for medical card users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12363/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1570. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has reviewed Water Safety Ireland's recommendations and compared them to those prevailing in Northern Ireland; if she plans to harmonise the lifeguarding season and equipment provisions between Ireland and Northern Ireland; her views on whether Northern Ireland's stringent lifeguarding recommendations play a role in Northern...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The development plan is supposed to be made in a democratic way by elected representatives. If I missed any previous explanation as to why section 51 has been put in and the rationale for involving the Office of the Planning Regulator at this early and formative stage of the development plan, apologies, but could the Minister of State tell me why the Government is doing this? It does smack...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order with regard to a difficulty I have, and perhaps there is nothing I can do about it, I have to leave at 7 p.m. and I have two amendments in the next grouping, namely, amendments Nos. 370 and 381. It is highly possible that I will not be here when we reach them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendments Nos. 370 and 381.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.