Results 8,361-8,380 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 670. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the expert advisory group to NPHET was dissolved following its last meeting on 2 September 2020; the rationale for this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39800/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Public Health Emergency Team (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 671. To ask the Minister for Health the details of any and all new advisory groups to NPHET; the makeup of these groups including the names and qualifications of the members, the terms of reference and the minutes of their meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39801/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 672. To ask the Minister for Health if all healthcare workers are being tested for Covid-19 on a routine and regular basis; if so, the details of the testing regime; if the testing regime differs for different categories of healthcare workers; the rationale for different regimes or for no regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39802/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 673. To ask the Minister for Health the definition of a close contact in healthcare settings; if the definition changes for different categories of healthcare workers; the way in which the definition might differ from the definition of a close contact for cases in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39803/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the quarantining and self-isolation protocols for a close contact in healthcare settings; if the definition changes for different categories of healthcare workers; the way in which the definition might differ from the quarantining and self-isolation protocols for a close contact of cases in the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39804/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (1 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he is unwilling to concede to the demands of student nurses and midwives to be paid at the healthcare assistant rate they were given earlier in 2020 for their work on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has since been withdrawn while they continue to play an important and crucial role as they played in March and April 2020, especially...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The securitisation of loans helped to crash the entire global economy in 2008. The Minister would have to do a fair bit of convincing to persuade me or most people that it is not a very hazardous practice. It is absolutely unacceptable that outfits like Goldman Sachs can purchase these loan portfolios and set up designated activity companies, DACs, in this case Tramore Funding DAC, that can...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I can only say that whatever efforts the Minister claims he is making have made absolutely zero difference to the capacity of big financial corporations and other multinationals to use networks of subsidiaries in this way. They can generate profits in one subsidiary and through distributions, royalties or payments of interest on loans from other subsidiaries they magically turn a profit into...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that a company (details supplied) that generated €153 million in profits over a seven-month period turned those profits, through complex accounting procedures, into a loss and paid no tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39491/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was reported in the past week or two, and perhaps earlier, that a company set up by Goldman Sachs - it is a crowd called Tramore Funding DAC, a special purpose vehicle that is just two years old and is due to disappear shortly - and which had purchased loan portfolios off banks generated €153 million in tax-free profits from its backers but, through "complex accounting procedures",...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend the eligibility criteria for the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, in order that it can be accessed by sole traders and small businesses such as taxi drivers, artists, musicians and live entertainment workers that do not have public facing premises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39234/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has excluded sole traders and small businesses like taxi drivers, artists, musicians and live entertainment workers who do not have public-facing premises from accessing the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39231/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will audit the recipients of the wage subsidy scheme to ensure that it is not being abused; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39235/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether a film production company in receipt of section 481 tax relief claiming in the Labour Court or Workplace Relations Commission that it is not the employer of the film crew working on a film production funded by section 481 relief represents a breach of the declaration that company is required to sign in order to access the relief and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken to ensure that film production companies in receipt of section 481 tax relief are complying with the declaration on quality employment and training they are required to sign in order to access the relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39232/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance if the €25,000 limit that credit unions are being required to impose on deposits will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39501/20]

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.