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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the rationale for renewing the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest legislation, given recent reports that Ireland is the European Union's fastest growing economy; if he had discussions prior to this renewal with the Department of Finance on alternative revenue streams to replace the €2.2 billion that public...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Minister say, with a straight face, that he is doing anything other than putting a gun to the head of public sector workers? That gun is called FEMPI. The Minister has really outlined it. There is a series of pieces of legislation that have absolutely no justification any longer because there is no financial emergency. The financial emergency is over and the Government is...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----public sector workers with this legislation that should be abolished?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider speeding up the restoration of the public service pension so that pensioners revert to their pre-financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation pensions by 1 January 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19755/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will extend full and equal pension rights to public sector workers who identify as LGBTI and allow them to upgrade their pensions to spouse and children pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19753/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether separate religious instruction is immediately necessary to allow for children not of the patron's faith to attend their local national school; the steps he will take to ensure this is in place for enrolments in 2016 given the report of the constitution review group, 1996, as repeated in the report of the forum on patronage...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to ensure that a person (details supplied) is given suitable accommodation for a family, given that the unreliability of the self-accommodation system is incredibly difficult for the family who are moving around. [19934/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the options available to a person (details supplied) who is out of work due to illness and who is in receipt of payments under the disability allowance scheme and the living alone allowance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19932/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the numbers of United States of America troops and military hardware that passed through Shannon Airport during the period 2001 to date 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19430/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UK Referendum on EU Membership (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the meeting he had with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, MsTheresa Villiers, in the wake of the result of the United Kingdom exit referendum. [19431/16]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Referendum Campaigns (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Taoiseach the constitutional referendums he will hold over the period of this Government. [17146/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Services Regulation (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if property management companies are regulated; if not, her plans to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19204/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to put Mandarin on the curriculum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19656/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal Charges (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 241. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the use of bin tags in houses that are unable to have wheelie bins will be affected by the new waste management legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19203/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 259. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council is assessing payments under the disability allowance scheme and the family income supplement scheme for rent purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19582/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for extra hours under the home help scheme, including when he will make a decision on this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19127/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Jul 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 469. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19213/16]

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Wallace and Clare Daly for bringing this issue forward again, TFMR for its continued campaigning work and the Sinn Féin Deputies for giving me some of their time to speak on this issue. I was depressed walking in here at the thought that we were going to have to debate this issue again. I was even more depressed when I discovered that I did not have any time to speak...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is pushing it through.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister showed some respect for low paid public sector workers.