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Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1032. To ask the Minister for Health if the 50 cent reduction for medication and prescriptions charges has been delayed; if so, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18855/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1033. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of new Covid-19 cases; the percentage of new cases with serious symptoms; the percentage of those new cases who have lost the sense of smell; the age breakdown and demographics for new cases in three-week intervals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18856/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1044. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that will be put in place for the care of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18902/20]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is nothing short of nauseating that the Government would consider it okay to increase the already staggeringly high salaries of super junior Ministers of €124,000 per annum by €16,000. How can it possibly justify that when nurses who were infected with Covid-19 on the front line did not get sick pay? That is the reality. Nurses recruited to the call for Ireland on agency...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is. A lecturer recruited post-2011 starts on a lower wage than a person recruited pre-2011. That is a fact. That pay inequality exists for lecturers in third level education. It is unacceptable, apparently, for super junior Ministers to have to put up with pay inequality. The double standards are nauseating. It is a pity Government has tarnished a good Bill, which has the good...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Congratulations again , a Leas-Cheann Comhairle, on your victory. I welcome the establishment of a Ministry responsible for higher education and research. It is a very positive move. If the importance of investing in research in medicine and other areas needs to be underlined, one need look no further than the lessons of the pandemic itself. There is clearly a deficit in these areas, but...

Decision of the General Court of the European Union in the Apple Case: Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Masks like the one I am wearing are sometimes associated with stick-up robberies. It is kind of appropriate that it is politicians who are now wearing the masks that are associated with such robberies. It might be even more appropriate for the chief executive officers of some of the largest and wealthiest corporations to be wearing them, given the scale of their theft of tax revenues that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise in advance to Mr. O'Leary from the NBRU. My time is short and I specifically asked that the taxi drivers attend today, so I will fire most of my questions at them. They have been ignored. However, I will quickly put a question to Mr. O'Leary. The subsidies for public transport in Ireland were lower than almost anywhere else in Europe before Covid. For the public's benefit,...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to comment on the Chairman's remarks. China is a brutal, totalitarian state that has a terrible history of oppression, including against the Uighur Muslims mentioned by the Chairman and dating back to Tiananmen Square. It is not a telling indictment of our State and the NTA that taxi drivers who need PPE cannot get it from the Government or the NTA such that they have to get it...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do. I thank Mr. Macken and Mr. Waldron for attending. I thank all of the taxi representative groups-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Public Transport (24 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will proceed now. My first question is to Mr. Macken and Mr. Waldron. Would it be a fair summary that the key things they are asking for are a step-down income subsidy to make it viable for taxi drivers to survive, grants to cover fixed costs because the loss of income means that members cannot cover them, the extension of the ten-year rule to 15 years, a moratorium on new licences and,...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will support the Minister of State if he gives our nurses and front-line healthcare workers the pay rise they deserve and gets rid of the absolutely shameful pay inequalities suffered by public servants at every level in the public service, where new entrants have to suffer the indignity of working on lower pay than people doing exactly the same job, just because they came in after a...

Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is really not good enough. I will tell the Minister of State who deserves pay rises for their level of responsibility. It is the nurses and the health workers who fought on the front line to protect our health, and the many workers in retail and other essential front-line services, often very low-paid workers, who worked throughout the pandemic. They deserve an increase. The people...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For some weeks the Government has been promising the famous July stimulus, the details of which we will get soon, with legislation presumably to be discussed next week. Is it not the case that the term "stimulus" is completely a misnomer when what was leaked today and was in the air for the last number of days is that there will not be a stimulus for some of the people on the lowest incomes...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How is that fair to people who have already suffered hardship as a result of the pandemic?

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government and Deputy Lahart tried to muddy the waters and to deflect to absolve themselves of responsibility for giving a direct answer to the questions that this motion asks of them and to cover the fact that they have deleted our entire motion and replaced it with vague promises of reviews, no tangible commitments and, essentially, a recapitulation of existing legislation, which...

Debenhams Ireland Redundancies: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — over 1,400 workers in Debenhams Ireland faced mass lay-offs when the United Kingdom parent company announced it would no longer support the Irish subsidiary in April of this year; — the company has not negotiated with the workers’ representatives since and that liquidators have been appointed; — the workers...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I think the references to the frugal four or five, or even the stingy four or five, are too kind. These people are the hawks of austerity and neoliberalism. The fact that these hawks of neoliberalism and austerity have won a significant battle is indicated by the EU4Health budget, which was initially projected as being more than €9 billion,...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what is stated in the programme for Government.