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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 775. To ask the Minister for Health the position of firefighters and paramedics in the vaccination roll-out scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6628/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 752. To ask the Minister for Health if accompanying a child for parental access outside of Ireland is deemed essential travel; if self-quarantine at home on return to Ireland will be sufficient; if not, if mandatory quarantine in a hotel will be required under the proposed travel restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 837. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide clarity on the definition and classification of essential travel; and the details of the steps that a person who has health or mental health issues that needs to travel from the UK to Ireland needs to do in order that they are complying to guidelines. [6917/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 925. To ask the Minister for Health if he is considering acquiring Russian and Chinese manufactured vaccines to aid in bridging the gap with the vaccine supply; if the matter has been discussed with NPHET; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7301/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the Minister would have been happy if I had stayed on mute.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Framework for Parliamentary Engagement Throughout the Budgetary Cycle: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank both Ministers, new and old, though I do not mean that to apply to their ages, obviously. The basic point of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight is to ensure the sustainability of the public finances, to oversee the moneys that are allocated, what we get for those moneys as they are allocated in different areas, and whether they are achieving their ends. I want to put to the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a building project can be deemed essential if the homeowners are dependent on the project staying on schedule in order to move into the property to avoid homelessness in which the projected finish date is beyond 31 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6084/21]

Reappointment of the Ombudsman for Children: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy to support the reappointment of Dr. Niall Muldoon and I commend him on his work. Precisely because of the nature of his work and the very good job he and his team have done in reporting our failure to vindicate fully the rights of children and young people under 18, I am sure that he would want us to take this opportunity to highlight some of the issues that his reports have...

Finance Act 2004 (section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a technical motion on one level, but it is, nonetheless, an opportunity to highlight some important issues. We are talking about underspending of €709 million in many areas of capital spending, which is an indication of how significant the impact of Covid-19 has been. We must also add to that figure the roughly €20 billion in additional spending which is also related...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, announced the welcome decision - one for which People Before Profit has been campaigning for quite some time - to cease issuing new gas and oil exploration licences. Of course, it then emerges that the gas and oil companies are welcoming this because all the existing licences as well as ones such as...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can cancel them.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want it to be effective.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not agreed. Thursday would have been the logical day, as I see it, to have the promised debate on the Covid-19 response and the public health crisis. It is deeply ironic that the Taoiseach should cite as justification for not having that debate the non-essential travel and work requirements. It is precisely the Government's failure to police non-essential travel and non-essential...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked for that debate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Ceann Comhairle knows, for the last number of weeks we have expressed our opposition to the failure of the Government at the Business Committee to honour a commitment it made to ensure the Covid emergency and the response to it are a standing issue on a severely curtailed Dáil agenda. The Government has refused to honour that commitment, which I understood had been agreed at the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, my only interest is to see 1,000 Debenhams workers, who have gone through an extraordinary struggle and have been treated despicably, get the justice and fair redundancy they deserve. It is similar for the Arcadia Group's workers, another group of workers faced with the same situation because of the failure of this and successive Governments to address this abuse. I put to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people bailed it out.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Labour Court-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Labour Court.