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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the advice she will provide in the circumstances of a case (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15555/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the refusal by the Primary Staffing Appeals Board for an additional teacher outside the allocation for a school (details supplied). [15562/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to a secondary school placement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15570/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (14 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans and timescale for a senior college on Eblana Avenue in Dún Laoghaire; if these plans are contingent on funding from his Department; if the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education Training Board made an application for such funding if it is opposed to entering into an arrangement with Saint Nicholas Montessori College Ireland;...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Initiatives (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach his plans to implement the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11576/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will re-establish the Economic Management Council. [10153/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committees he will establish. [10154/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Meetings (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine To report on his meetings with the new Chief Executive of Coillte Teoranta (details supplied) including his plans for future meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14503/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Appointments to State Boards (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 66. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the appointment of a person (details supplied) as executive director of Coillte Teoranta heralds a further commercialisation of the company; if this is appropriate for the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14504/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 294. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will receive the full SWA payment of €186 per week, rather than the reduced rate of €100 per week, while the person is awaiting a decision on a disability allowance claim. [14357/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (8 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 333. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he no longer provides back to education allowance payments for students studying outside of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14805/16]

Adjournment Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an issue the Government and the new politics urgently has to do something about. The Minister is aware that in the past few weeks, we have had two instances where people who are ill, often with life-threatening illnesses or seriously disabling illnesses, are not able to access certain drugs because of price, rather than the question of their medical efficacy or how they could help...

Delivering Sustainable Full Employment: Statements (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In recent years the previous Government trumpeted what it saw as its success in creating jobs and stimulating economic growth. The Government is continuing to do this. There is no doubt that jobs have been created and that economic growth has occurred but is the jobs and growth strategy, as the title of this debate suggests, sustainable at all levels? Is it sustainable in the sense that it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider establishing a State pharmacy to source best value pharmaceuticals for supplying hospitals, general practitioners and pharmacies, and to estimate the savings that would be made to the Exchequer with this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13766/16]

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:"notes the failure of the Fine Gael/Labour Government to give adequate legal protection and legally enforceable rights to collective bargaining to workers in this country; further notes the failure of the Fine Gael/Labour Government to halt the spread of precarious and low...

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Ruth Coppinger.

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The state of the public health service is a scandal and a disgrace. In so far as this new committee can contribute anything, its contribution will be to moving away from a failed policy that has been pursued for the past decade at least and pursued consistently by the last Government in pursuit of the mirage of universal health insurance, a policy it has finally abandoned. If only it had...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In addition to the points already made, not only should the committee have an input in terms of equality budgeting, anti-poverty budgeting should form part of its remit because one can have equality in poverty and that is not much good. The statistics on poverty and deprivation are pretty severe. One of the objectives of any committee like this must be to ensure nobody in this country is...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Barrett is right that this is about setting up the structures for a new budgetary process. The consensus view is that it should be chimed with the new politics, whatever that might be, but that there would be a new way of doing budgeting that is more open, transparent and participative, both with groups inside and outside the Parliament. However, it is legitimate, in the context of...