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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Assistance Fund (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 534. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a college (details supplied) is on the list of colleges eligible for funding for the Government assistance fund for students to assist them with laptops and other forms of technology; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23286/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 653. To ask the Minister for Health if doctors can charge for blood tests for medical card holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23333/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 733. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health workers in employment in terms of whole-time equivalents and by profession; the way in which this has increased in view of Covid-19 in terms of whole-time equivalents and by profession; his plans for permanently allocating the funding to increase capacity across the health service; the number and category of whole-time equivalents he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if a thorough plan will be outlined for the reopening of day services for those with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22333/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 735. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase public investment in public health and medical research in view of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22647/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (10 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State but it is very disappointing that the senior Minister is not here to deal with this very serious matter. Engaging with liquidators and the INMO in terms of redundancies is just not good enough in this situation. Let me finish reading the comments of some of the residents: Let us have our lives back so we can laugh again. To break up our...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Support Services (10 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is happening at St. Mary's Centre Telford - the nursing home, the assisted living housing and the disability services - and indeed what has already happened with the Caritas Convalescence Centre, in terms of the attempted execution of a tactical liquidation and a manufactured insolvency at the expense of the workers who worked providing these services and the residents and service users...

Services for People with Disabilities: Statements (10 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even before Covid-19, supports and services for people with disabilities and their carers were woefully inadequate. The equality that is demanded by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, is not, and was not, a reality. For the past six months, the hardships that all of society has gone through have disproportionately fallen on those with disabilities and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, the points I put to the Tánaiste were not points that I dreamed up. They came directly from the Debenhams workers I was talking to this morning. They are their arguments and their proposals, and I agree with them. I am glad the Tánaiste mentioned Clerys because what the Debenhams workers pointed out this morning is that precisely the same situation operated in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For more than 150 days now, more than 1,000 workers have waged a truly inspiring and heroic struggle for a just settlement following the ruthless and cynical behaviour of Debenhams, their employer, to execute a tactical liquidation in order to leave those workers, who had given decades of service, absolutely high and dry without a penny. Due to their struggle, they have forced the issue of...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We just witnessed another reason the manipulation of the speaking order is very regressive step. The senior Minister has left before the opening spokespeople of four different groups in the Parliament will have a chance to put points to him, whereas he has heard three or four from his own party before that. It is a disgrace. In the two minutes I have left I will say this: the Minister...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The new pecking order.

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The backbencher party, a new party.

Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Rural Independent Group for putting forward this motion. It seeks to achieve exactly what our amendment to the Bill last week sought to do, namely, remove the emergency power being given to the Minister to make regulations which have not been properly debated or scrutinised in this House penal offences. It is a very wide-ranging and draconian power which we do not believe the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Imperial arrogance is the stock in trade of the British Tory establishment. Johnson's announcement of his intention to breach international law is very much in line with that rotten and arrogant tradition but it is also a direct snub and insult to the Taoiseach and to the people of this country. It is a reckless and dangerous assertion by Boris Johnson. It endangers peace and stability in...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill is here.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except taxis.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need a referendum on the right to housing. I submitted a Bill to that effect, looking to change Article 43 of the Constitution to delimit the rights of private property in order to vindicate the right to affordable, dignified and appropriate housing for all in the last couple of weeks. The Taoiseach should support that Bill and fast-track the move towards a referendum. The scandal of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Germany, Iceland, France, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Slovenia and the Czech Republic have no student contribution fees. Spain, a country that was hammered by austerity, has an annual student contribution fee of €500 yet we are charging €3,000. Now we are going to be charging that for a hugely diminished third level experience for the class of 2020. Any additional funding is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (9 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just pointed out a number of European countries where they do not have a contribution fee. That is the standard we should reach rather than having the highest fees. The level of investment per student in this country for most categories of students is less than the amount of public investment into horses. I like horses but I prefer students. I think they are more important and they add...