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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will meet with the four taxi representative groups (details supplied) to discuss a wage subsidy scheme for their industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26719/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish the local property tax and replace it with an enhanced local government fund from central funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26720/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a commitment will be given to not renew FEMPI when it comes before Dáil Éireann in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26725/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Advisers (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of special advisers across each Department; the salaries of each; if the information will be compared with the Government of 2011, 2016 and 2016 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26721/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which applicants for driver's licence renewal who are non-nationals awaiting naturalisation documents with residency permits can be facilitated in having their applications processed when their required identifying documentation and Irish residence permit, IRP, is held up in the Department of Foreign Affairs due to delays...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Unemployment Data (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Finance the projections of unemployment for the second two quarters of 2020. [17244/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested that the wage subsidy supports be maintained as part of the July stimulus for artists, performers, crew and event organisers in the arts, culture, music, live entertainment and events sectors as a basic minimum income over and above which these workers would be allowed earn some additional income without losing the payment until a full...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the discussions he has had with regard to maintaining wage subsidy supports for artists, performers, crew and event organisers in the arts, culture, music, live entertainment and events sectors as a basic minimum income over and above which these workers would be allowed earn some additional income without losing the payment until a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has requested of the relevant Ministers that the wage subsidy supports be maintained as part of the July stimulus for artists, performers, crew and event organisers in the arts, culture music, live entertainment and events sectors as a basic minimum income over and above which these workers would be allowed earn some additional income without losing...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the delay in processing the passport of a baby (details supplied) will be clarified and rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27341/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the pupils of a school (details supplied) will receive additional bus transportation to address the lack of social distancing and the bus journeys to and from school of over two hours each way; if the extra buses needed will be found in the immediate future to protect the many very physically vulnerable children during the Covid-19 pandemic...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 656. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that reapplicants that sat the leaving certificate in previous years are not locked out of third-level education in view of the inflation in CAO points in 2020; if work is being undertaken on finding a solution to resolve the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26287/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to register an objection to the fact that, two weeks in a row, we have asked the acting Chief Medical Officer and NPHET to come before the committee. We expected them to come in today but they are not coming. It is extraordinary. We have had one party leaders' briefing, which included the acting CMO and NPHET, since the new Government was elected. On two occasions now we have asked...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Currently, we are running at between 200 and 400 cases of infection a day, which is rising generally. If we went to 800 or 1,000 cases a day, what would that mean in terms of our tracing capacity? Mr. Reid has said that the HSE is meeting demand and in meeting demand, it has got above 90,000 tests, which I believe was the figure he gave. If meeting demand at the current level of infection...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on. I have got very little time.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will come to that point shortly but there is a view that if we aggressively chase the virus instead of it chasing us and essentially, were we to screen the entire population in the way we screen our cattle in this country, we could identify where all the disease is and extract it from the population. Instead, it seems to me that we are being bounced around by the virus and, at a certain...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true. There is no killing of herds on a large scale. Mr. Reid should not put out nonsense. That is nonsense.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State (29 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is very alarming. We have nearly 70 fewer critical care beds than we had in April when the system was nearly overrun.

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I cannot see into the mind of Boris Johnson, MP, and I am not sure I would want to, because I would say it is a pretty scary place but what we can say about him is that one of his biggest international backers is President Donald Trump, another man whose mind I would not like to see into, as it would be even scarier. As we speak, Donald Trump is willing to incite civil war in the United...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Taxi Regulations (24 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the demands of representative groups of taxi drivers will be agreed to, namely, to dissolve the taxi advisory committee and instead establish a national transport forum with strong representation from these representative groups, to extend the ten-year rule for replacing taxis to 12 years, to instigate an immediate moratorium on the...