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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1408. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the laboratory service at St. Michael's Hospital had its hours of operation reduced on 5 August 2020 back to pre-pandemic levels (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that out-of-lab-hours point-of-care blood testing is being used, despite the fact that this equipment is known to generate erroneous results, and that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if dog grooming and dog training falls under essential animal welfare services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32310/20]

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Ó Ríordáin was late and has messed up my speaking slot.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move Amendment No.1: In page 4, line 36, after “Equality” to insert “and Dáil Éireann”. I did not respond to Deputy Stephen Donnelly's last point because I did not want to delay this section, but his argument is also relevant to this amendment. We are talking about weighing the Minister's political judgment against the collective wisdom of the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This section deals with definitions, particularly the definition around dwelling event. I just want to point out the sort of preposterousness of this and the misguided focus that it implies. This lies at the centre of how misguided this entire legislation is, namely, trying to suggest that the primary responsibility for rising infection rates and the necessity to resort to another lockdown...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But I am not agreeing section 2.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I comment on it briefly first?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: News has just broken that the National Virus Reference Laboratory, NVRL, in University College Dublin has released the following urgent notification in relation to SARS-CoV-2 testing at NVRL: Due to unavoidable staff shortages the VRL will not be able to provide any SARS-CoV-2 testing on the weekends of the 24th/25th and 26th October and the weekend of the 31st October/1st November 2020....

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I never said there would be a flood of evictions.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will let Deputy Barry speak for himself, but I never said that.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I said in my contribution and previously was that it is a fact that the majority of people who come into my clinic because they are threatened with eviction are in that position because the landlord is selling. It is not a flood, but there is a constant flow of people of all ages into my clinic. As a result of the eviction ban which applied during the heavy lockdown the number of...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons we opposed the extension of the emergency legislation today, and will oppose the plan to impose fines in connection with the public health restrictions, is not because we do not support the public health measures or think that people should not comply with them to drive down the virus, but because we do not think coercion is the way to achieve compliance with public health...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. Any respite for people who are threatened with eviction is better than their not getting that respite at all. This is true in the current circumstances and in any circumstances where people face the possibility of being made homeless by a landlord, overwhelmingly because that landlord wishes to sell a property or refurbish it or, as also happens, the...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no justification for what is happening to those people. Whatever about the perfect being the enemy of the good, which is the argument the Government is making in saying that we cannot solve everything right now because of constitutional limits and so on - I do not buy that argument, by the way - there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever, when we have a Covid strategy and when the...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am getting texts from survivors expressing their disgust at what they are witnessing being done by the Minister and the Government. They are saying how pointless this whole exercise seems to be, given the Government's unwillingness to entertain amendments. Is it not pretty damning that the people who should be at the centre of this process are disgusted at what the Government is doing?...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is rare that I am completely dumbfounded by the Government or the State but I really am dumbfounded. I am very curious to hear what the Minister has to say for himself in response to the points that have been made and to the request for a free vote, which I echo on behalf of survivors. I was talking to a survivor last night and she asked why on earth the Government would impose a whip on...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could just nod.

Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act) 2020 - Part 3: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The prospect of level 5 restrictions for the next six weeks is a pretty grim one. The normal social and human interaction that is the lifeblood of people will be curtailed to a very significant extent. It is, however, necessary for a very simple reason. For any who doubt that, and there are a few, it is necessary for the very simple reason that we cannot put our doctors and front-line...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Statute of Limitations (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if changes will be made to the time period that a case of clinical negligence can be brought; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32127/20]