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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the Department is calculating the data which allocates special education teachers and the adjustments made based on complex needs; if the Department has received this data and will report on it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5126/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (7 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that has been spent by the Legal Aid Board to personal insolvency practitioners, solicitors and barristers under the PIA Review of the Legal Aid Service for 2022 and 2023; the details of these payments; the companies and individuals that received same; the amount received by each company and individual; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (7 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 346. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount that has been accrued, but is as yet unpaid, by the Legal Aid Board to personal insolvency practitioners, solicitors and barristers under the PIA Review of the Legal Aid Service since its inception in 2016 to date; the details of these liabilities; the companies to which they are owed; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he intends to act on the motion passed by Dáil Éireann in October 2022 in favour of free public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4625/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline how he intends to address the impact of the shortage of drivers on the delivery of bus services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4626/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a digital tax on digital and social media companies, as an alternative method of funding public service broadband to replace the regressive and widely discredited TV licence model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4569/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Data Centres (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing a specific tax on data centres given their high impact on our energy and resource infrastructure. [4571/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance the penalties he is considering on film production companies found to be in breach of their requirement and obligation for receiving section 481 film tax credit funding, given the recent Workplace Relations Commission rulings against a company (details supplied) for its failure to uphold the employment rights and blacklisting of 38 film crew; if he intends...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider and introduction of a wealth tax, given recent reports by an organisation (details supplied) and the Central Bank on the wealth distribution showing ever growing concentration of wealth in the hands of the very wealthiest households. [4570/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (1 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 342. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the list of Mother and Baby Homes and any other State institutions that are included in the Redress Scheme, and to provide also a list of institutions that are not included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4662/24]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the legislative programme. [4020/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (31 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he is aware of the activities of the sole remaining animal shelter in Gaza, Sulala Animal Rescue, and its collaboration with Animals Australia; whether he has raised the issue of animal feed reaching the shelter through the Kerem Shalom checkpoint with the Israeli Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4410/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 124 of 17 January 2024, to clarify whether persons excluded from the credit due to low energy usage where they have been occupying the property and are not a vulnerable customer/entitled to be a vulnerable customer or have a financial meter, will be awarded the credit; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Electricity Supply Board (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to report on when semi-State PAYE pensioners who were not permitted to contribute to the Government pension scheme can expect their pension increase to be paid out to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3997/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (30 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the grounds there are for the compulsory nature of educational devices in schools; if she is aware of the costs incurred by parents of students for the mandatory devices as well as the mandatory textbooks and other materials; if she will report on the process of contracting suppliers of the educational devices; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the process for allocating school buses to schools or to areas within the greater Dublin area. [3120/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will lift the mandatory 90-day period for being declared homeless for HAP tenants if the tenant finds a property before the 90 days; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3173/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Middle East (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 193. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the worsening humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza, the alarming rate of conflict-related injury and illness affecting children there, the rate at which children are made orphans there, the destruction of Gazan hospitals, and the severe pressures on hospitals in the wider region, he is aware of calls to host Palestinian orphans in severe...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of reports that a number of Irish citizens are serving in the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), in light of Government statements that Israeli actions in Gaza may amount to war crimes, in light of the proceedings against Israel in the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention, in light of Ireland’s...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (23 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 153. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in light of the French and Jordanian delivery of aid to Gaza using military aircraft, and in light of the fact that it is unconfirmed whether France received permission from Israel to carry out this operation, acknowledging that the Irish Air Corps has similarly capable CASA-CN235 aircraft, and acknowledging the deployment of these...