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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if a space is available for a person (details supplied) in a service shortly or in the next term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32107/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to refer to our earlier discussion. As the Taoiseach said, he discussed the European wide response to Covid-19, specifically cross-border contact tracing. That brings us to the topical discussion of the state of our contact tracing system. I mentioned contact tracing. Reference to private German laboratories is a bit of a deflection, to be honest.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that there is a large private pharmaceutical industry and it utilises its laboratories. There is also a state-of-the-art public health apparatus, something we do not have. We have run down our public health apparatus. A particular strength of the German system is the strength of its local public health apparatus and tracing regime. That is what is needed. Similar success has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no next day.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU Council meeting of 16 October 2020. [31339/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit was the only party in this House two weeks ago to explicitly support NPHET's call to move to level 5. We did so not because we like restrictions or lockdowns - we dislike them - but because we support a zero-Covid strategy based not on perennial lockdowns but on precisely trying to end the need for lockdowns by eliminating the virus. The excuse the Taoiseach has given...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not in the case of tracing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a copy of the contract. It is not good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Council discussed co-ordination in the fight against Covid-19. It should be self-evident that at European and national level we need an integrated and properly resourced approach to combat Covid-19. It is worth dwelling on the fact that countries such as Germany have managed better because they have a tremendously well resourced and well staffed integrated national health...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Early this morning I stood with workers at the Debenhams picket line in Blackrock along with shop stewards, workers from other Debenhams stores across the city who came to their aid and many from the local area and beyond supporting them and was witness to strikebreakers from KPMG arriving, attempting to enter the store to remove assets and break the Debenhams picket line. They acted in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is more.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which a person in the case of an Irish passport holder from Northern Ireland, living in Ireland who wishes for all their official documentation to feature the Irish version of their name as opposed to the English version and their birth certificate is British or Northern Irish, can apply for this change to the version of their...

Post-European Council Meeting on 15 and 16 October: Statements (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The resignation in April of the President of the European Research Council, Professor Mauro Ferrari, over what he deemed to be the really desperate failure of the EU, of which he was a big fan before taking the job, to respond effectively to Covid-19 was a pretty damning move that should raise questions. I have not heard a lot in the Taoiseach's contribution or more generally about the EU's...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Programme for Government (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Get them all in.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Programme for Government (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach clarify whether the removal of goods is not compliant?

Ceisteanna – Questions: Programme for Government (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is non-essential retail.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Programme for Government (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is liquidation part of level 5?

Ceisteanna – Questions: Programme for Government (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government refers to the need to address the issues that arise out of cases similar to the Debenhams case and to protect workers who have been impacted during Covid. Earlier, the Taoiseach effectively refused to answer the question Deputy Barry put to him. That question, by the way, came directly from the shop stewards and they want to know his answer because it is very...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need decent contracts.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is cheap labour.