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

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit was not a latecomer to calling for mandatory quarantine or for a zero Covid strategy. We have been calling for this for months. Yesterday we saw that Ireland paid a very bitter price with 101 fatalities, a record number, for the Taoiseach's failure to embrace a coherent zero Covid strategy and to impose mandatory quarantine. I now will address another chronic...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even at this late stage, on the 300th day of this dispute, will the Taoiseach do right by the Debenhams workers and the Arcadia workers?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance if assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied) in relation to the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5383/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reintroducing the mortgage interest supplement for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis to prevent persons from falling into mortgage distress. [5293/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment rates for all participant workers of the community schemes; if she is considering increasing the rates of pay for community scheme workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5854/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 808. To ask the Minister for Health the amount general practitioners will be offered per hour to administer the Covid-19 vaccines in mass vaccination centres; if this will be extended to groups who are qualified to administer the vaccine such as general practice nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5652/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 815. To ask the Minister for Health when further student nurse placements will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 857. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the practice of nursing homes charging an Alzheimer’s premium for residents with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and that this premium is not covered in the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5863/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 874. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish citizens are permitted to travel to the UK for family reunification purposes; if partners are considered family; if family reunification is considered essential travel; if An Garda Síochána accept that this is essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5902/21]

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, we are sharing time.

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we had a little bit longer for the small groups, we might have time. A modern day plague or infestation has struck most of Dublin and perhaps other parts of the country. The infestation is particularly acute in south Dublin. It is not locusts but property developers and property speculators, who are drawn like bees around a honey pot or perhaps flies around a less pleasant substance,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the significant delays experienced by allied healthcare professionals in receiving their CORU registration; his plans to speed up the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4603/21]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have no particular difficulty with the individual nominations, although I do point to the point made by many people about gardaí investigating gardaí. I would like to see more civilian oversight of gardaí to ensure we genuinely have independence in oversight of the Garda and that it is perceived to be independent. Given the recognition and acknowledgement that we need a...

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Covid Restrictions Support Scheme) (Percentage Adjustment) Order 2021: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When the legislation relating to the CRSS was passed by the Houses, I argued as forcefully as I could that it was unfair on people who did not have a premises, whose premises might be, for example, their taxi or van or whose livelihoods involved overheads in terms of loans or rents on premises that are not public-facing, such as musicians, people who work in the arts and many others who...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. I am not exaggerating when I say that the Government is using the Covid pandemic to gag the Opposition and minimise the opportunities for the Opposition to hold the Government accountable at a time of national emergency when people out there are asking questions about the strategy around Covid, around the state of our health services and all the different knock-on issues...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not allowed ask the Taoiseach these questions. That is not acceptable, as far as I am concerned. It is a 40-minute slot. We have asked for it for the past two weeks and it is being denied. That is not accountability. That is not leadership on the Taoiseach's part. It does not give the public the opportunity to ask really urgent questions they have of Government.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. I do not want to waste the Dáil's time by calling votes, particularly if I am not getting support from others. Nonetheless, I will make the point that we have six and a half minutes to question the Minister for Health tomorrow because the Government insists on limiting the time to debate with and question the Minister. We have raised this repeatedly over the past few...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am pointing out it is not acceptable.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nor it is acceptable that, at the end of Thursday, it seems the Government wants to ensure that we organise things so that there cannot be Tuesday sittings of the Dáil. I object profoundly to this. It is essential work for us to act as messengers to the Dáil of the issues that are being raised by people in the context of this dire crisis and the hardships they are suffering-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and their concerns about the lack of a plan from this Government to deal with Covid.