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Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our group is not speaking on this Bill.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Once upon a time, it was considered unthinkable that there would be open access to secondary education. We now look back and see it as monstrous that we would ration or limit the number of places available in secondary education. It is just as irrational and, frankly, lacking in vision to believe that we should still ration or limit access to higher and further education, education which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not need to remind the Tánaiste about the very significant hardship and sacrifice that huge numbers of people have undergone as a result of the Covid pandemic. With a motion that People Before Profit is putting before the House tonight, we are proposing that for many of those who have made that sacrifice and suffered that stress, anxiety and hardship, we need to offer them a better...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the body that is responsible for enforcing restrictions in the construction or other sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13818/21]

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The Minister may not know it but he has People Before Profit to thank for the opportunity to debate this issue. We specifically requested it at the Business Committee. Such is our commitment to this matter, we have also tabled a motion that will give the Minister another opportunity to discuss it tomorrow. I will have more time to set out our stall in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Sisters of Charity have been again implicated in really quite shameful practices, in terms of the revelations about illegal adoptions and their involvement in St. Patrick's Guild. The order has also been implicated in the mother and baby home scandal but, incredibly, this same religious order will be running the National Maternity Hospital, against a background where Archbishop Diarmuid...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we get a brief answer on the Chinese and Russian vaccines?

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems the European Union has performed extremely badly in securing the supplies of vaccine that we need and the contrast with Britain is stark. I wonder the extent to which this is because the European Union is deferring to the big pharmaceutical companies that are producing the vaccine because of their desire to make money and so on. I say that because, for example, the World Health...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not pretty embarrassing that Boris Johnson's Government has managed to do a better job of rolling out the vaccination programme than our Government? This is the Prime Minister who made an absolute hames of the initial response to the pandemic and who, to put it mildly, has shown incompetence at many levels during this crisis. However, Boris Johnson's Government is streets ahead of us...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is looking for a waiver of pre-legislative scrutiny of the residential tenancies Bill, in which he intends to extend the enhanced Covid protections for tenants in arrears, but it is not clear whether it will keep those protections for other tenants where they face eviction on grounds of sale or refurbishment. I...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I thank Deputy Funchion for introducing this important Bill, which I obviously fully support. It should be acted on immediately. I am very conscious of how important this Bill is, particularly because as an adoptee, I am lucky that I did not have to wade my way through all the barriers and difficulties that many adoptees have faced in trying to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify his position in relation to LNG terminals; if he supports such gas infrastructure being included on the EU Projects of Common Interests lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a full list of the funding streams available for community sports initiatives will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12585/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the rationale behind the closure of the Passport Office; if the staff have been redeployed elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind children in primary schools not being required to wear masks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12676/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full list of participating organisations, unions and advocacy groups that contributed to talks held to get agreement on the reopening of special schools, special classes and also the general reopening of education for children and young persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12945/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Fines Administration (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the actions taken regarding the funds collected from the courts via the judges using the donation to poor box procedure as part of sentencing; if there are ways of accessing these funds for community projects and other causes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12711/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 777. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the drug semaglutide has been removed from the drugs payment scheme for use by polycystic ovary syndrome patients; his plans to reinstate it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12672/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 778. To ask the Minister for Health the reason semaglutide has been removed from the drugs payment scheme for use by polycystic ovary syndrome patients; if he plans to reinstate the drug on the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12674/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 779. To ask the Minister for Health if drugs for the treatment of hyperemesis gravidarum are being considered for the drugs payment scheme or medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12677/21]