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Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Topical Issues matter is about this person.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in the public domain and the issue is about this person. As a ten and 11 year old child she was ritually abused and raped by, she says, members of her own family, members of the community and, she alleges, three senior gardaí from the area. When she was 11 a child, Noleen, issued from this abuse who shortly afterwards was murdered and found in a plastic bag down a lane having...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not making a charge. These are facts in the public domain.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These are facts in the public domain. I am well aware of the legal constraints.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said there were allegations but some of it is fact. I distinguished between the allegations and the facts and I will continue to do so. The Acting Chairman has completely thrown me.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not understand why this Topical Issues matter was selected if there is a problem with it.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My time is being run down.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the people accused by Cynthia Owen as being one of the abusers was one of the gardaí who arrived on the scene when her baby was found. Evidence of the murder of the baby was lost and contaminated and the investigation into this most heinous of crimes was closed down after six weeks. No one was ever brought to trial for it. Cynthia alleges the abuse continued as did the abuse of...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Acting Chairman took one minute of my time.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Abuse Issues (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: She is asking for a sworn independent inquiry into this matter. Will the Minister positively respond to this?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he expects to receive the report from the Garda authorities on the death of a child (details supplied); and if he does not have such a date, if he will request it as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19293/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Post-Leaving Certificate Courses (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new €200 financial contribution to the post-leaving certificate programmes was introduced in the last budget; if his Department notified all participants of this extra cost; if there are exemptions or waivers for those who cannot afford to pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19066/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will look at the situation of north Wicklow parents who campaigned for a long time for an Educate Together secondary school and who find themselves in a situation where a school has been allocated to another group of schools entirely, with Greystones and Wicklow Educate Together primary schools not included in the list of feeder schools;...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department has carried out a cost benefit analysis of the rental accommodation scheme and the long-term leasing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16752/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 504. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the cost to the Exchequer of the rental accommodation scheme and long-term leasing in the area of social housing; if social housing should be financed through greater capital expenditure rather than the existing approach of large scale current expenditure which yields no long term benefit to the Exchequer; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review the receivership regime to establish protections for tenants whose landlords go into receivership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16155/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Administration (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on all rental accommodation scheme and leasing tenancies across each local authority including the rents paid on each tenancy, the size of each house, the length of each contract, the expiry date of each contract; and if there are any tenancies where the contract has expired but the tenant has remained...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 771. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to refurbish St Elizabeth Court, Care Facilty, North Circular Road, Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18824/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (30 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 942. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will approve the application of a college (details supplied) for a sports capital grant to build an all-weather, astro turf sports facility to replace the existing pitch which is forty-four years old; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19112/14]

White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the most likely scenario.