Parliamentary questions

Departmental Bodies

Richard Boyd Barrett

18. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [26242/21]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

42. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest engagement with the social partners. [24664/21]

Health Services Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

96. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of workers who have been transferred without their knowledge from a section 39 status organisation to a section 56 status which has had consequences for those workers' earnings and conditions; when and the way in which this change was made; if it is intended to ensure that sufficient funding and resources are available for Tusla and section 56 workers to allow for the reversal of FEMPI era cuts that have applied to public sector and section 38 and 39 employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26737/21]

Special Educational Needs

Richard Boyd Barrett

144. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will meet with behaviour analysts working in special schools as per the recommendation of the Labour Court of December 2019 to address issues with their employment agreements which are due to expire in seven weeks; if permanent positions will be secured for them in order to maintain and continue their work supporting the education in special schools of children with autism and complex special education needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26855/21]

Health Services Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

164. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of workers who have been transferred without their knowledge from a section 39 status organisation to a section 56 status which has had consequences for those workers earnings and conditions; when and the way in which this change was made; if it is intended to ensure sufficient funding and resources are available for Tusla and section 56 workers to allow for the reversal of FEMPI era cuts that have applied to public sector and section 38 and 39 employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26739/21]

Programme for Government

Richard Boyd Barrett

1. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the status of the programme for Government. [21779/21]

Vaccination Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

6. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the vaccine roll-out group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [24662/21]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

12. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with church leaders. [24249/21]

National Economic and Social Council

Richard Boyd Barrett

135. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if she has read the NESC report on the position of the self-employed. [1330/21]

Pension Provisions

Richard Boyd Barrett

273. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will intervene in the current crisis relating to the CIÉ pension schemes and ensure that the company takes no unilateral action until current court proceedings are finalised and resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26475/21]

Water Quality

Richard Boyd Barrett

388. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if a commitment will be given to the systematic testing of the waters of Dublin Bay at a minimum of ten locations throughout 356 days of the year (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26063/21]

School Accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett

145. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure that a school (details supplied) can stay on its current site now that the lease has been renewed for one more year while the permanent site is being developed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25087/21]

Site Acquisitions

Richard Boyd Barrett

152. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will meet with the parent group of a school (details supplied) with regard to a permanent site for their school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25086/21]

State Pensions

Richard Boyd Barrett

352. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the advice for a person who has been refused a contributory pension due to the fact their contributions for working prior to becoming a homemaker cannot be located by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25408/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment

Richard Boyd Barrett

353. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be phased out in 2021; if so, the way this will be done; the timescale for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25409/21]

National Economic and Social Council

Richard Boyd Barrett

5. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [24248/21]

Registration of Births

Richard Boyd Barrett

130. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason for a delay in processing the foreign birth registration of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24726/21]

Departmental Functions

Richard Boyd Barrett

10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21778/21]

Taxi Licences

Richard Boyd Barrett

169. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will extend the temporary moratorium for taxi drivers from 10 to 15 years; if the Taxi Advisory Committee will be replaced with a forum that would allow the drivers to bring their issues directly to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23685/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Richard Boyd Barrett

245. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if an employer availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme who does not qualify on an end of month review during January 2021 to June 2021 has to repay the subsidy for the previously qualifying months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24494/21]

Housing Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

317. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a list of all strategic housing development applications since the beginning of 2017 in cases in which planning permission was granted; the number of units that were applied for; the bedroom size of each of these units; the status of building on the site; the number of units delivered to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23683/21]

Housing Issues

Richard Boyd Barrett

363. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he will take within his power to work with approved housing bodies and Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council to ensure that the remaining tenants in a location (details supplied) are not forced into homeless services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24645/21]

Legislative Measures

Richard Boyd Barrett

364. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the upcoming Land Development Agency Bill 2021 will be revised at committee stage to prioritise traditional council housing and to ensure that the affordable housing is defined in relation to incomes and not in relation to market prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24646/21]

Foreign Conflicts

Richard Boyd Barrett

396. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has engaged with his counterparts in the European Union regarding the ongoing war in Yemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24398/21]

Middle East

Richard Boyd Barrett

397. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on a recently published report by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24399/21]

Schools Building Projects

Richard Boyd Barrett

444. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will address the queries raised in correspondence by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23696/21]

School Accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett

489. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will communicate as a matter of urgency with An Foras Pátrúnachta with regard to the permanent site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24318/21]

School Accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett

490. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will communicate as a matter of urgency with An Foras Pátrúnachta with regard to the temporary site for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24319/21]

School Accommodation

Richard Boyd Barrett

491. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the reason a school (details supplied) has been made aware that it will be moving to the current site assigned to another school in September 2021 in view of the fact the school has not been informed of its new location in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24320/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Richard Boyd Barrett

525. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if a person referred for long-Covid treatment is entitled to stay on the Covid illness payment of €350 while they are unable to return to work; if not, the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23628/21]

Health Services Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

697. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health his views on whether it is acceptable that the HSE recently advertised for unpaid voluntary assistant psychology posts involving a full range of professional duties for 20 hours per week; the way in which young persons trying to progress and gain experience in their training as psychologists could be expected to perform unpaid work for the HSE and at the same time survive financially; if he will instruct the HSE to pay psychologists for their work as assistant psychologists and on placements while training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23684/21]

Dental Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

758. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the dental practices in Dublin 18 that accept medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24022/21]

Medical Cards

Richard Boyd Barrett

759. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will consider providing free medical cards for persons with epilepsy during the period in which they are disallowed from driving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24023/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

3. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change last met; and when it will next meet. [20475/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet.. [21777/21]

National Economic and Social Council

Richard Boyd Barrett

118. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [23265/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

119. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee that deals with transport will next meet. [23266/21]

Sports Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

253. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if an organisation (details supplied) and its associated sports received 40% of all public sports funding in 2020 from Sport Ireland; if there is only 3% participation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22827/21]

Sports Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

254. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if there is oversight of the way that Sport Ireland calculates the distribution of funding between sports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22828/21]

Sports Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

255. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if an organisation (details supplied) receives separate funding for other associations; if other sporting organisations will now need to apply separately for women's sports funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22829/21]

Garda Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

475. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice the number of reports of breaches of protection, safety and barring orders that are made to An Garda Síochána; the number of subsequent arrests that are made following such reports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22837/21]

Health Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

564. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the status of the promised motorised transport grant which was closed in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22819/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Richard Boyd Barrett

567. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the criteria that will need to be in place to allow weddings with more than six persons to proceed, that is, the R-nought number, case numbers, percentage of population vaccinated and so on; if guidance can be given regarding summer weddings; the Department that is responsible for the wedding industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22823/21]

Vaccination Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

584. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if a version of a vaccine (details supplied) will be considered and accepted as a valid and viable vaccine by the National Immunisation Advisory Council and the European Medicines Agency; if it will be considered in the plans to accept returning vaccinated persons as restrictions are lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22943/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

1. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [15561/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

7. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with foreign affairs will next meet. [20476/21]

Citizens' Assembly

Richard Boyd Barrett

9. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the expected running order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [17202/21]

Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements

Richard Boyd Barrett

19. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his latest discussion with the President of the United States of America. [17203/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Richard Boyd Barrett

66. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she plans to respond to the appeals by musicians, events, entertainment and culture workers for a reopening roadmap for the sector; if supports will be provided in the meantime for many in the sector who due to the fact they do not have a public facing premises have been unable to avail of existing Covid-19 support schemes to cover ongoing costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21824/21]

Film Industry

Richard Boyd Barrett

79. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the allegations of blacklisting will be investigated against film workers who are members of a union (details supplied) who gave evidence of blacklisting practices to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in January 2018 and many of whom have been unable to secure employment on film productions since, despite the fact that all film productions are funded by section 481 tax relief which requires adherence to provision of quality employment and training; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21823/21]

Middle East

Richard Boyd Barrett

514. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he has read a recent report (details supplied); his views on the report; his further views on whether it is now time to begin speaking in relation to Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people in terms of apartheid rather than merely occupation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21840/21]

Departmental Contracts

Richard Boyd Barrett

557. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if background checks are carried out on contractors and consultants in relation to the school remediation works currently being conducted by companies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21496/21]

Fire Safety

Richard Boyd Barrett

558. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the frequency with which school fire hydrants are tested; the steps taken to repair them if found to be non-operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21497/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Richard Boyd Barrett

845. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if a person travelling to a country on the quarantine list for surgery can obtain an exemption from mandatory quarantine; if so, the way they apply for same; if their carer can apply for an exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21143/21]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

1016. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will order a general review of the use and overuse of psychiatric medication in children across all CAMHS and primary care health services and in particular to review the way a lack of resources for alternative approaches is driving the overuse of medication given the concern in relation to the rapid rise in the use of psychiatric drugs in children (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21860/21]

Primary Care Centres

Richard Boyd Barrett

1068. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if all senior citizens are entitled to referral to primary care centres to access, for example, physiotherapy regardless of whether they have a medical card or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22117/21]

Tax Reliefs

Richard Boyd Barrett

29. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the reason the stay and spend relief is only applicable from October 2020 to April 2021 and not from July 2020 as was previously indicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21042/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

4. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [20474/21]

Shared Island Unit

Richard Boyd Barrett

7. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the priorities of the shared island unit of his Department. [17201/21]

Public Sector Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

53. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to increase staffing levels across the public service in key areas such as health, education, higher education and training in which clear deficits in capacity have been revealed in the context of the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20472/21]

Public Sector Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

124. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has or is planning to carry out an audit on staffing levels and facilities across the public service in key areas such as health, education, higher education and training in which clear deficits in capacity have been revealed in the context of the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20473/21]

Driver Test

Richard Boyd Barrett

431. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport the safeguards he will put in place in the Dún Laoghaire driver theory test centre when it reopens in the interest of public health (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20378/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Richard Boyd Barrett

524. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if businesses impacted by the travel restrictions such as language schools, travel agents and so on the trading of which is unlikely to return to normal when domestic restrictions are lifted will have supports such as the temporary wage subsidy scheme, the Covid restrictions support scheme and so on extended beyond the current deadlines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20220/21]

Sports Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

624. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the criteria in respect to the allocation of funding to Sport Ireland in 2020 used to allocate monies to the different sporting organisations; the breakdown of the funding being awarded across major sporting bodies here by Sport Ireland in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18817/21]

Social and Affordable Housing

Richard Boyd Barrett

823. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the delivery of new social homes by construction over acquisition commenced in line with the Programme for Government objective and priority to increase social housing stock by over 50,000 over a five-year period through a focus on new builds in each of the 31 local authorities since 1 June 2020 to date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20741/21]

Israeli Settlements

Richard Boyd Barrett

894. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the imminent eviction of eight Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Israeli-occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem and due to be replaced with illegal Israeli settlers; the actions that Ireland will be taking to ensure Israel does not carry out this war crime given that these evictions are in contravention of international law and would constitute a war crime of forcible transfer of parts of the population of an occupied territory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20742/21]

Passport Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

895. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when the passport office will reopen as normal; when persons can expect to have their expired passports renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20787/21]

Gaeltacht Scholarships

Richard Boyd Barrett

914. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the reason student teachers at a college (details supplied) are required to pay €350 to attend a Gaeltacht course while student teachers attending State-funded colleges can do so for free; if the Gaeltacht course is compulsory in order to qualify as a teacher; if she will consider removing the cost for all students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18163/21]

Special Educational Needs

Richard Boyd Barrett

937. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the number of children with a diagnosis of autism that need access to an ASD specific unit given that they are as yet without a confirmed school place for the coming academic year in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18396/21]

School Meals Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

1116. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if 189 schools were successful and 91 applicant schools were not successful in their applications for the recently announced hot school meals pilot programme; the number of unsuccessful applicants that were DEIS schools; her plans to address the large demand for hot meals in many more schools given the large volume of unsuccessful schools that applied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18390/21]

Gambling Sector

Richard Boyd Barrett

1388. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice if her Department plans to regulate advertisements for gambling whether online or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18413/21]

Vaccination Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

1555. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health his views on whether the actions of the CEO of a hospital (details supplied) in the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine was a misuse of State property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18251/21]

Health Services Provision

Richard Boyd Barrett

1557. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health when the gay men’s health service will reopen; the measures he is taking to ensure that staff and funding will be made available for the programmes and survival of the clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18254/21]

Disability Support Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

1600. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if a school (details supplied) is to lose all onsite therapists, including speech and language therapists and occupational therapists as part of the progressing disabilities service roll-out; if so, the rationale for the school losing interventional therapies onsite for the 160 children attending the school given the optimal use of the time of the students, their families and the school and the minimum disruption in the students’ school day by having onsite therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18394/21]

Disability Support Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

1601. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if a school (details supplied) is to lose all onsite therapists, including speech and language therapists and occupational therapists as part of the progressing disabilities service roll-out; if so, the rationale for the school losing interventional therapies onsite for the 160 children attending the school given the optimal use of the time of the students, their families and the school and the minimum disruption in the students’ school day by having onsite therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18395/21]

Vaccination Programme

Richard Boyd Barrett

1617. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if a residential care worker is deemed not fit to go back to work but cleared to return to work by their cardiologist will be permitted to return to work once fully vaccinated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18456/21]

Maternity Services

Richard Boyd Barrett

1985. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the path for resumption of maternity care and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19498/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Richard Boyd Barrett

2228. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of complaints that have been received by his Department in relation to the violation of the rights or poor treatment of persons staying in mandatory hotel quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20188/21]

HSE Reports

Richard Boyd Barrett

2275. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health when an implementation group will be enacted to progress the recommendations of the HSE Report of the National Psychology Project Team: Establishment of a National Psychology Placement Office and Workforce Planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20373/21]

HSE Funding

Richard Boyd Barrett

2276. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health when ongoing funding and sponsorship of psychology training programmes will be expanded to include counselling and educational psychology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20374/21]

HSE Staff

Richard Boyd Barrett

2277. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of new whole-time posts in the HSE by discipline since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic; the number of these posts that have been filled; the additional vacancies above and beyond these new posts; the length of time the posts have been vacant by discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20375/21]

Departmental Data

Richard Boyd Barrett

98. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a list will be provided of approved travel agencies for all public servant trips that are booked abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17739/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Richard Boyd Barrett

327. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health when the €100 weekly payment to student nurses will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17774/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

4. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the Cabinet committee dealing with education. [15559/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

9. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [13268/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

17. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it next plans to meet. [15560/21]

Cabinet Committees

Richard Boyd Barrett

22. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [13267/21]

Tax Code

Richard Boyd Barrett

74. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will explain his reported remarks on 4 March 2021 in which he warned of increased taxes post the Covid-19 pandemic; if he is considering specific tax increases; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17198/21]

Tax Reliefs

Richard Boyd Barrett

96. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the ongoing efforts being made by his Department and the Revenue Commissioners to ensure full compliance by film production companies with the conditions attached to receipt of section 481 film tax relief particularly following a recent ruling by the scope section that one of the regular recipients of section 481 over many years was found to have wrongly classified an employee as self-employed and in circumstances in which many workers in the industry claim this practice is widespread; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17197/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Richard Boyd Barrett

339. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if companies that operated the TWSS can seek to demand payments from their workforce if their employees were marginally better off in their net take home pay as a result of the way in which the scheme operated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16889/21]

Inland Waterways

Richard Boyd Barrett

488. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Inland Waterways Ireland has announced that it plans to sell off the site of the graving dock in Ringsend, Dublin 4; if he will ensure that in the event of the sale proceeding that the price will not fall below the €20 million value that he has placed on the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17044/21]

Inland Waterways

Richard Boyd Barrett

489. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will ensure financial support to develop the graving docks Ringsend, Dublin 4 as a heritage site and that could be used to develop apprenticeships on boat repair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17045/21]

Inland Waterways

Richard Boyd Barrett

490. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will request Dublin City Council to consider diverting some of the funds that had been earmarked for the white water rafting facility to developing a heritage site and amenity for the local community at the graving docks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17046/21]

Inland Waterways

Richard Boyd Barrett

491. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will commission a feasibility study to examine options for the future development of the graving docks Ringsend, Dublin 4; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17047/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Richard Boyd Barrett

572. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education her plans for the return of outstanding classes in secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16528/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Richard Boyd Barrett

576. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the medical basis on which a decision (details supplied) was reached; the length of time considered short-term; the reason a medical condition such as anxiety would be singled out and those suffering from it have their online education withheld if they feel unsafe at school; if her Department consulted with mental health experts or charities before including same; and if so, the experts or charities consulted with. [16560/21]

Immigration Policy

Richard Boyd Barrett

797. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice the criteria that will apply for the end to the suspension of the visit a family and friend class C visa and the de facto partner of an Irish national visa which have been suspended since March 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16562/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Richard Boyd Barrett

1082. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if the wearing of masks by staff working in the kitchens of restaurants, takeaways and fast food outlets is mandatory; if not, the rationale for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17115/21]

Covid-19 Pandemic Supports

Richard Boyd Barrett

5. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the pandemic supports available to businesses trading under €50,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16209/21]

Visa Applications

Richard Boyd Barrett

144. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice the options a person (details supplied) has to renew their stamp 4 spousal visa which is due to expire at the same time as their passport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16215/21]