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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear. At the best of times many people who worked in the arts were in borderline poverty situations. Cuts to the pandemic unemployment payment and the employment wage subsidy scheme will, potentially, drive thousands of people into poverty. Without sufficient grants to cover insurance costs, warehouse costs, debt repayments and other ongoing payments, people are going to go...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the recommendations she has made for a roadmap for the arts and live entertainment sectors to reopen safely, protecting the public and workers across arts and entertainment in addition to ensuring the survival of the sectors as Ireland moves out of Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27483/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people who work in live entertainment including music, the arts, the performers, the sound people, promoters and the crew have been crucified as a result of the pandemic and the restrictions which, with the current trajectory of infections, are set to remain so for some time. I have asked repeatedly for months, as have the people involved, and the Minister will know they have been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely welcome the fact that the Minister responded to that informal approach, which I made on behalf of the Events Industry Alliance, to get more representation on the task force. Even since then, however, the situation has deteriorated. With more severe restrictions being imposed in Dublin, and possibly elsewhere, it is a very grim picture that is facing the events, music and arts...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear. With the cuts in the PUP, the retrograde decision to allow the banks end the waiver on mortgage repayments and so on, the financial pressure on the 35,000 people working in this sector will become unbearable. They then have the ongoing costs of repayments, insurance and warehousing; we can go through the list of costs. There will not be a sector unless there is a dramatic...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the recommendations she has made for budget 2021 that will provide additional supports to performers, artists and arts workers during ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and beyond; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27481/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it is a condition of being granted a film certificate that a producer company, together with the qualifying company, is required to give an undertaking in respect of quality employment and training, that compliance with same requires an undertaking by the film company that it is the employer of the crew working on the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that two of the major film producer companies here currently engaged in co-productions with major US networks which have been the beneficiaries of corporation tax relief in the past five years (details supplied) are the subject of a significant number of claims before the Workplace...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of uncollected tax revenue as a result of persons offsetting their private health insurance costs against tax liabilities [27804/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio from 1:27 to 1:15. [27811/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of bringing all currently employed school secretaries under the direct employment of her Department. [27812/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Respite Care Grant (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of restoring the respite grant to its highest historical level. [27809/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of the pandemic unemployment payment at current levels from now until the end of 2021. [27810/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of permanently increasing and staffing fully and on a permanent basis the number of acute beds to obtain 85% occupancy in the hospital network. [27798/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of permanently increasing and staffing fully and on a permanent basis to bring the level of ICU beds to 560 in the hospital network. [27799/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the current levels of nursing home care provided through the public health system. [27800/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the subsidies paid to private nursing homes. [27801/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the fair deal scheme. [27802/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of subsidies paid to the private hospital network. [27803/20]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of conducting 200,000 Covid-19 tests per week through the existing network of State-owned and operated medical laboratories. [27805/20]