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Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all those Deputies who rose to support the motion tabled by People Before Profit and Solidarity in support of the students and midwives and our call that they should have the healthcare assistant rate they were given earlier in the pandemic restored and that, more generally, they need to be paid for their placements because it is work, not simply education. The fact that they have to...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the decision making bodies responsible for the allocation of the funds from the music industry stimulus package; the decision-making methodology used in deciding upon the successful applicants; the amounts awarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40629/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the process through which a company (details supplied) was selected to be the public relations company assigned to work with successful applicants of the music industry stimulus package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40630/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to run a further fund similar in scope to the music industry stimulus package from the €50 million fund for the non-funded live entertainment sector arising from budget 2021; if she will use the same bodies involved in awarding monies of the stimulus package; if she will alter the manner in which applications are...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that all those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment who are due arrears receive the arrears before Christmas 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40747/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Mother and Baby Commission report will be published; the records that will be accessible; the records that will be sealed; the length of time they will be sealed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40748/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (2 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if there is guidelines or regulations governing the charging of patients by general practitioners to email prescriptions to pharmacists using the national electronic prescriptions transfer system including repeat prescriptions before and during Covid-19 restrictions; and if so, the amount agreed as appropriate to charge a patient for this service; and if he...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on social affairs and equality is due to meet next. [40167/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the key areas that it is necessary to address if one is to really try and strive towards equality is education. I wish to continue to put to the Taoiseach certain points I was making earlier, but just to focus them a little bit more. Fees are increasingly becoming a major barrier to equality of access to education. That is bad, not just for the people who have financial impediments...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Garda Reform (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not intend to speak on this issue but Deputy McDonald referred to anti-social behaviour. It is an issue we all encounter and it can be difficult to address, particularly during the pandemic. We get reports of people complaining of large groups of young people gathering and so forth. There are two ways to deal with that. We can blame the young people and take a coercive approach,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination. [38635/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be helpful to Deputy Kelly, I think one answer to how we deal with the vaccination roll-out is to have our public health teams at a level such that they are capable-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are the people who deliver immunisation programmes. As I mentioned to the Taoiseach on Leaders' Questions, they are taking industrial action. At a time when they have never proven their value to society more, they are being forced to take industrial action because the Government has shown them zero respect in terms of their status and giving them status as consultant specialists, but...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no doubt that the intense hardships people have suffered, and the collective solidarity people have shown have helped staved off the worst disasters in respect of Covid-19. However, the Government is taking a gamble in rejecting the NPHET advice, and it is very clear about that, in respect of the potential impact of opening the hospitality sector, which could lead to the family...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can the Taoiseach explain that 71% of student nurses and midwives said, in a survey, that they are going to probably leave the country after completing their training because they feel that they are so badly treated?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How can he possibly justify the fact that the testers and tracers that we need to keep on top of outbreaks have no sick pay and rubbish "hire 'em and fire 'em" contracts when they should be treated with respect with decent pay and conditions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit has been unique, clear and consistent in arguing that to deal with Covid-19 we need a strategy to eliminate community transmission, so we can avoid a constant cycle of going in and out of one lockdown after another, which is what we believe the Government's strategy is inevitably going to result in. We think the Government is wrong to ignore critical parts of the advice...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Redundancy Payments (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if State redundancies will be available from 1 December 2020 when the bar on redundancies expires for workers particularly in the bar trade who do not have the prospect of returning to their previous jobs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39657/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the grants recently announced to enable taxi drivers to replace their vehicles with zero-emission vehicles will be made available; the procedure for applying; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39649/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA is extending or will extend the 90-day time limit for getting a suitability test for taxi vehicles after passing a NCT while licence renewals are being extended and during Covid-19 emergency extension measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39918/20]