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Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is seriously disingenuous.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be asking questions in the first ten minutes.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has spent well over a week trying to shield the Minister for Justice from questioning over the process of selection of Mr. Justice Séamus Woulfe to the Supreme Court. As a result of the collective insistence of the Opposition that the Minister come into the House to face questions and be accountable to the Dáil, the Government was forced to put forward a proposal....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Companies could also share the technology.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps I can kill two birds with one stone by getting an answer to my previous question. In the context of the shared island initiative, a shared vaccine programme would be an immediate way of giving us common cause, North and South, to deal with the pandemic and get us out of the cycle of lockdowns. The Taoiseach should take that idea very seriously. As I said earlier - I would like to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I congratulate the American people on sacking Donald Trump. It is very gratifying to see his increasingly desperate and farcical attempts to deny reality. It reminds me a little bit of Chemical Ali trying to claim that Saddam Hussein was still in charge when the walls were shaking around him. It is amusing but people hope it will bring real change, not least given the absolutely disastrous...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is thanks to large orders that have come in from the United States.

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just wanted to hear the end of the answer to my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his telephone call with the President-elect of the United States of America. [38634/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Seeing as how, as the Taoiseach suggested in a previous answer, the Government is not busy with any particular legislation at the moment, and given that he is responsible for co-ordinating the response to Covid, may I suggest something for his Department to do? There are many aspects to this, but one that is staring us in the face, is growing more evident every day and will be the key to any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of Bills under preparation in his Department. [38633/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not expecting to be called, but it is fine.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue of online content moderators needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency. It might be of interest for the Taoiseach to know - and I will ask him a little more about this later - that in the United States, online content moderators did not go into work at all between March and October because of Government restrictions there. Here, they have been working in large workplaces for...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for the pandemic unemployment payment that did not receive payment in the week beginning 16 November 2020; the reason for this non-payment; if applicants will be assured that this will not happen again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38947/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for the pandemic unemployment payment that are due arrears as a result of the heavy workload in her Department; when they can expect to receive these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38948/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What we have been doing is not realistic. It has not delivered, so that is not real. The lists are long and we should look at the cost. With HAP or RAS, in my area the rent is €2,000 a month to a private landlord. That is €580,000 over 25 years for social housing and the State does not even own it. If the State does a leasing deal of €28,000 per annum, that is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the necessary funds and other assistance to develop the Oscar Traynor Road site for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38400/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who wants an unrealistic proposal? That is nonsense talk, and the reference to ideology is nonsense talk. The Minister has his ideology and the ideology of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, Labour and the Green Party has dominated housing policy forever. The result is that sites in public ownership, which should long since have had public housing built on them, have sat empty because over those...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Minister talking about?

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those who are trying to underestimate the threat of Covid-19, as Deputy Eoghan Murphy just did, need to explain why there are hospitals in this city turning patients away because they have had Covid outbreaks, irrespective of whether the patients are Covid patients or non-Covid patients. That is with infection rates at a relatively low level. If the rates rise, our hospitals will be...