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Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad the Ceann Comhairle mentioned that. Our Whip team, and we do not accept the Whip's allowance, by the way-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were doing the job.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I will explain.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, there were nine ten-minute slots between the slot of the final Deputy to speak last night and our slot. There was, therefore, no reasonable expectation that we would speak before today but for the fact that multiple speakers in the intervening slots, including Government speakers, were not here. Our office and Whip team were monitoring what was going on in here but unlike in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Next Friday, it will be precisely 365 days since almost 2,000 Debenhams workers received the shocking news, via email from the company, that they were being dumped after decades of loyal service. Those workers were soon to discover that despite having a collective agreement for two plus two weeks of redundancy per year of service, they would get nothing from this company that continues to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not patronise the Debenhams workers by suggesting that they do not know precisely how they have been treated and what the facts of their dispute are. Is it not funny, as the shop stewards from Debenhams and Arcadia asked me before I came here, how the law and the system always favours the big corporations over, as the workers describe themselves, "the little people"? KPMG, a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask 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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 327. To ask 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]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The People's Vaccine campaign, which is supported by 80 countries, many NGOs, the UN Aids programme, Oxfam and others, published a survey of epidemiologists, immunologists and infectious disease specialists in 28 different countries, 88% of whom predict that within nine to 12 months, variants of Covid-19 will have evaded the first generation of vaccines. That is a very stark warning. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

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

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Covid-19 has further underlined the need for proper mental health services. We have thousands of adults and children waiting for assessments and services. I spent an hour on the phone last night to a young student studying to be a psychologist. She told me a tale of woe about the plight of people studying to be psychologists and trying to get on doctorate training programmes to be...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just read the NPHET letter. It correctly states we are in a very fragile and precarious position, as a result, in my opinion, of the Government refusing to impose the mandatory quarantine that NPHET asked to be introduced. The Government still refuses to do it for a majority of countries. Whereas the vast majority of people adhered to public health guidelines, enduring immense...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The scheme costs very little.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

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

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Before I came in here, I spoke to the principal of a DEIS band 1 school in my area, Scoil Cholmcille, which was one of 281 schools that applied for the new hot school meals programme. The school was most disappointed not to have been selected for the programme. It is in a highly disadvantaged area. It seems that quite a few non-DEIS schools were approved for the hot school meals programme,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

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

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was a direct question.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)

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

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask 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]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (31 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask 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...