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Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As somebody who is a political activist, but also somebody who was adopted and born in a mother and baby home, I have very mixed feelings about this debate and report. I suspect that is true of many survivors and those who went through mother and baby homes. In my case, my outcome was relatively benign in that I was adopted by a wonderful family and I was lucky enough eventually to be...

EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Motion (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. For British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Tory right, Brexit was always about a reckless drive to accelerate the race to the bottom, undermine standards in worker rights or the environment, for example, and, no doubt, to further enhance the role of the City of London as a centre for financial speculation and emulate this country in trying to...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Barry. Last week the victims of the mother and baby home scandal were insulted. The insult centred on the Government's refusal to value the direct testimony of those victims and instead to follow an official narrative from institutions. This week we have the same pattern of insulting the student nurses and midwives, refusing to listen to their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the proposed affordable housing scheme including but not limited to criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if childcare services have been requested to remain closed beyond 31 January 2021, if providers will be requested to continue the suspension of fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2354/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 369. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions a provider of childcare services should take when it has one non-ECCE child, which means, under the rules, it must remain open in cases in which the provider is also a parent of a school-aged child who requires supervision; if the premises is allowed to close to allow the provider to provide care to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 462. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the roll-out of the vaccine to the staff in the Ireland East Hospital Group; the order in which the hospitals will be scheduled; the order in which the staff will be vaccinated by staff, discipline and dates for each hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2238/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 463. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the scheduled roll-out of the vaccine to the staff in St. Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire in the week ending 8 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the use of a company (details supplied) in the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine; the details of the tendering process for the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2240/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 498. To ask the Minister for Health if port workers who are considered front-line workers should receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the initial phases of the roll-out to ensure that ports remain operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2365/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 531. To ask the Minister for Health the construction works that are deemed essential, given the apparent grey area between essential and non-essential construction that is being exploited on many sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2471/21]

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I will take 50%. I will comment on the leaving certificate briefly. It was discussed earlier. There is no way the Government can guarantee the leaving certificate can happen in June. At the leaders' briefing, we asked Dr. Holohan whether the restrictions would be lifted by March. He said he could not possibly tell us and that he had no idea....

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is important to say that the huge and detrimental impact Covid-19 is having on education at the moment is to do with the disastrous strategy this Government has pursued. We argued that it should listen to public health advice in advance of Christmas and that if it did not, we would be in a disastrous situation in January. Tragically, we now are. Now our young people and some of those...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consultancy Contracts (14 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance the details relating to his Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specific Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2185/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (14 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Covid-19 vaccination programme for general practitioners nationwide (details supplied); if general practitioner representative bodies have been consulted in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1948/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single woman who went into these institutions was in effect a prisoner. It was officially sanctioned. There was criminal negligence on the part of the institutions of the church, Government, local authorities and so on at the time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There needs to be an honest owning up to that. The survivors need to be put at the absolute centre of this. Even the webinar I heard yesterday was a bit of sham in terms of the disappointment the survivors felt.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the Taoiseach will explain to us what the apology is for. Will it be a sincere apology? Will it be an apology that results in actions that give justice and redress to the survivors of the mother and baby homes?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The most important action that can be taken is to put the survivors' needs, wishes, feelings, sensitivities and objectives at the centre of this process and to date that has not happened. In fact, they were further insulted with the leak that came out at the weekend. As for being given this report only 24 hours before there is to be an apology, we do not even know what is being apologised...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy McDonald, he was keen to grab credit for Fianna Fáil for things it did in the 1930s. I hope he will be as quick today to accept responsibility for what Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the institutions of the church and the State did to tens of thousands of innocent women and children who were imprisoned and who suffered gross abuse. The mother and...