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- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (10 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company is a quango that has failed and should be dissolved forthwith. Its history is 18 years of jobs for the boys at the top, with lavish salaries and expenses, who have run the harbour into the ground. We have had another nail in the coffin with the Stena service being withdrawn. I am asking the Minister if we can simply dissolve Dún Laoghaire Harbour...
- Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (10 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been asking about this issue for the past four or five years. I am very glad that we are moving the harbour company back under council control. It is something we have been calling for in Dún Laoghaire for a long time but the issue left hanging by the former Minister, Deputy Varadkar, was whether it would be a corporate subsidiary or directly under the council. The former...
- Other Questions: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (10 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister should not forget to plant a few more trees.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Harbours and Piers Development (10 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of Stena Line's withdrawal of its service to Dún Laoghaire, and the subsequent announcement of the abandonment of a plan for a National Diaspora Centre, his views on developing a sustainable strategy for Dún Laoghaire harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9880/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (10 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has identified any educational merits to the proposed merger between Cork Institute of Technology and the Institute of Technology Tralee, County Kerry; the purpose of the prerequisite for institutes to merge prior to being considered for technological university status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10369/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology (10 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 484. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the fact that students currently attending institutes of technology will receive a higher level of education if the institutes have their status changed to that of technological universities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10370/15]
- Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with this legislation, I feel like saying, "Welcome to the 21st century, but not quite; welcome to culture and civilisation, but not quite." In so far as discussing the Bill and the possibility it will be passed moves things forward, it is a tribute to the very long struggle of transgender people. Alongside the Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015, the upcoming referendum on...
- Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We would love to do so but we never get the chance.
- Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In a similar vein, I wish to oppose these Estimates and the overall philosophy that lies behind them. I agree with Fianna Fáil that it is suspicious and problematic that we are not having a proper discussion on these Estimates, which are being rushed through in a very short amount of time. We spent a great deal of time talking about tax changes when we debated the budget, but it seems...
- Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department accepted the figures.
- Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of recent reports indicating a significant rise in child poverty and deprivation, particularly in the instance of lone parents, if she will abandon all plans to make changes to the one-parent family payment scheduled for July 2015. [9388/15]
- Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I listened to some of the Tánaiste's responses in terms of the impact of her budgetary measures on lone parents in recent years, but is it not the case that facts do not lie and that the plight of lone parents and their children has worsened in the past two years as a result of those measures? The number at work has fallen and the number suffering deprivation has increased. The number...
- Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste has already been forced to backtrack on the cut to half-rate carer's allowance affecting the 800 lone parents who are carers because Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids, SPARK, exposed what was about to happen. I suggest she do the same in respect of the loss of income that lone parents who work part time will suffer as a result of the abandonment of the one-parent...
- Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we get rid of the red herrings? More than most, lone parents know that it is better to be in work if they can find any because it makes them better off. The proof of the pudding is that before the Tánaiste started her cuts in 2012, most lone parents were working. She is now putting pressure on them to leave work because they will lose up to 20% of their incomes. I am not saying...
- Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And if they work 20 hours or more, they will lose.
- Other Questions: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (5 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on her review with regard to the possible loss of earnings of up to €86 per week to a person in receipt of the one-parent family payment and the half-rate carer's allowance; if that person is required to move to a full-rate carer's allowance, due to the changes to the one-parent family payment scheduled for July 2015; and...
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar, was on the airwaves this morning talking about the new health levy that will see a significant increase in private health insurance premiums for older people taking out private health insurance. It appears to be designed to scare people into taking out private health insurance.
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it the Taoiseach's intention to give Members a chance to discuss this in the Dáil? Is legislation forthcoming in this regard because-----
- Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the Minister seems to be acting like a tout for the private health insurance industry?