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Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Have you?

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: About what section am I talking then?

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe the Acting Chairman has read the legislation because, if he had, he could not possibly have intervened.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly will.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will. The point is that if the Acting Chairman examines the Bill, he will see that one of the most important things it does is give the State the right to take children from their parents and put them up for adoption if it considers that the parents have failed their children. That is a very serious point. Does the Acting Chairman understand how serious it is?

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Right. It is absolutely logical to go on to discuss, in the context of the Bill, the reasons parents might fail their children or the State might consider they have failed their children.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is unbelievable. It is absolutely unbelievable what the Acting Chairman is now doing.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly will.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not out of order.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. On a point of order, I am perfectly entitled to point out that provisions included in the Bill could be problematic and, therefore, must be considered, that amendments may be required and that the legislation should be passed only if there is also a commitment to deal with the other circumstances which affect children or any contributory factor that might lead parents to fail their...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I consider the issue to be far more important than the Acting Chairman’s concerns about the rules of the Chair.

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I may not use all of them which the Acting Chairman will probably be glad to know. I congratulate the Minister, Deputy Katherine Zappone, on her new post. She is taking on an important portfolio, that of children and youth affairs. While I may have my doubts about the capacity of her allies to deliver for children and youth, I wish her the best of luck in trying to do so. I must...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to commit to a full-sworn commission of inquiry into allegations of rape and abuse made by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10148/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Stardust Fire (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to acknowledge the new evidence that was presented to her before the dissolution of the 31st Dáil in relation to the cause of the fire in the Stardust tragedy; to agree to the request of the Stardust families for a new commission of inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10149/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Programme (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015; if the regulator has been established, the name of the regulator; and the procedure for lodging a complaint. [9367/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Relief Data (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of income tax foregone in each of the years 2011 to 2016, to date, and the projected amount in 2017 through tax breaks on private health insurance; the income brackets of the beneficiaries of these tax breaks, by every €10,000 of earned income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10418/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 883. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll out intensive home care packages in south County Dublin under the national dementia strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10416/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Strategy on Dementia (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 884. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the health budget he is ring-fencing for the dementia strategy and if he should give an automatic entitlement to a medical card to all dementia sufferers [10417/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Data (17 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 901. To ask the Minister for Health the number of primary care centres per county; the number and profession of all staff within each primary care centre; the service categories provided in each primary care centre, in tabular form; and if these staff are directly employed by the State or private providers. [10457/16]

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite the high-flowing rhetoric and noble aspirations articulated both by Fine Gael today and by Fianna Fáil in their confidence and supply document, there is no real sign of either the new politics or the new policies people so desperately want. There was no sign of it in the long protracted process that has led up to this day in which Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael led us on a very...