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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 849. To ask the Minister for Health if the new package of increased supports and respite for a child (details supplied) has been completed; if so, if it has been shared with him and the family of the child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12944/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 867. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will have a MRI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12986/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 872. To ask the Minister for Health if the vacant position of paediatric rheumatologist in Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin, has been filled; if there are further similar positions still waiting to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13010/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 921. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding the payment of ambulance service personnel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13181/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1053. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the grants and funding available from the community section of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12584/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their very interesting and informative contributions. I wish to ask about the debt situation. For a long period during the time of austerity, terror and fear about the debt burden was instilled into the population. It was given as the reason we needed incredibly draconian fiscal rules and all of the terrible austerity that flowed from that. We were told we could...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know how much time I have left.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the quickest hand function in the west. Dr. Doorley spoke earlier on education. We were talking about retraining and reskilling, etc. We might also throw in the clearly apparent skill shortages in a number of areas. It has become very evident that we need to train more people in various areas. Arguably, a lot more teachers are needed to reduce class sizes. There are many healthcare...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I ask a supplementary question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a question about the Land Development Agency. I do not know if R. McQuinn looked very closely at the legislation. He may have, but I will not assume it. Many people hoped the Land Development Agency would be something that would intervene to reduce the costs of building houses, particularly intervening in a market where prices have gone out of control, as Dr. McQuinn said, and are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ten families and individuals, in the St. Helen's Court apartment complex in Dún Laoghaire, whose plight I have raised around 20 to 30 times in the past four years, received letters to tell them they will be evicted within ten days of the lifting of level 5 restrictions, or 56 days from the receipt of the letter. I want to stress the landlord in this case is a vulture fund. The...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact of Covid-19 on the tax position of frontier workers who have previously been eligible for transborder workers relief (details supplied); the impact on the businesses that employ them; if any tax adjustment has been made due to Covid-19; if any tax adjustment will be made post-pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12190/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will contact his counterpart in Northern Ireland for a report on the status of the investigation into the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12241/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the passport office will resume processing applications that are non-emergency given passports are important pieces of identification that are needed for purposes other than travelling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12203/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Electricity Supply Board (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if stamps from an ESB pension can be converted to stamps for a contributory pension; if stamps can be bought towards a contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12243/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider offering Covid-19 vaccinations to 16 to 18 year olds who work in a high risk environment such as a pharmacy or in healthcare in view of the recent inclusion of 16 to 18 year olds with health conditions in the vaccination programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12208/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the reason carers are not considered healthcare workers in relation to the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12230/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of vaccines that Ireland will receive by the end of February, March, April, May and June 2021 (details supplied); the number of vaccines that will be administered by the end of each month in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12233/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to the ways in which a system could be created to appoint a person as a named visitor to a care home resident and in which that person could be vaccinated in order to allow visits to care homes to take place safely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12237/21]

Banking Sector: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The inescapable logic of what needs to be done in response to what I consider to be a pretty serious crisis in the banking and financial system is that we need to take it into public ownership. The Minister might say that my colleagues and I were always going to say that, but I think it sort of adds weight to a socialist case that has long been made, one which we strongly put forward in the...