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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (25 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if original bank statements are required in order for her Department to carry out a means test; if information on statements is allowed to be redacted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18138/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Places (25 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a concession will be made for a person (details supplied) to continue their community employment scheme onto the service support scheme until retirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18282/18]

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit is opposed to PPPs as a means to deliver services and infrastructure. Is that ideological? No, that contention essentially arises from logic. Any logical examination of PPPs would suggest they have to be more expensive in terms of delivering services and infrastructure than the traditional method of the State doing it directly, as it has done in the past and used to do...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. A cost of €58 million to build a school, rather than have the State do it directly, sounds like a hell of a lot to me. Furthermore, we are now discovering that because the traffic going through the Limerick tunnel is not as heavy as was originally envisioned, the State will have to fork out €200 million to make up the shortfall. In conclusion, the other side will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the closure of 12 hospital beds at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, in January 2018; when these beds will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18336/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [18888/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the international and EU division of the Taoiseach's Department at all concerned about the massacre that Israel has been perpetrating against unarmed protesters in Gaza for the last number of weeks? Two days before those protests began I begged the Taoiseach to condemn and speak out against any likely Israeli armed attack on those protests but the Taoiseach ignored me in the Dáil...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Project Ireland 2040 Administration (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned the expenditure planned in arts, heritage and culture in Project Ireland 2040. Did the committee discuss the absolutely shameful decision to sell the State's share in what are effectively the national film studios? They are both an important part of Ireland's cultural and film heritage and an important location for developing the film industry. Over the past number...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Project Ireland 2040 Administration (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did, but I got no answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Project Ireland 2040 Administration (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We did for 50 years.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the Deputy has.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Deputy Bríd Smith's question, the Minister was not around in 2008. However, he has direct responsibility for the concerns that were flagged by Dr. David Gibbons and Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith and other scientists. They went as far as resigning from the quality assurance committee over this issue. That is not insignificant. They were so concerned about the inferiority of the testing...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all agree with that.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all agree with the screening programme.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all know the screening programme saves lives. Let us be absolutely clear: we believe people should avail of that screening programme. Furthermore, anyone who is concerned should immediately seek to be screened. There is no question about that. The issue at stake – to be honest, the Minister knows this – is whether the standard of that screening system was inferior as a...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the politicians who made this decision were wrong, they are accountable for what is happening. If that contributed to the scandal that has now unfolded, they are accountable. Does the Minister agree with that? That is an important question. Is it not strange? Can the Minister explain this to me? The then Opposition spokesperson, James Reilly, flagged these concerns in the...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My time is not up yet.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Having raised those concerns and echoed those concerns in 2008, why did Fine Gael not then immediately look into it-----

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----when it got into power to see if Sam Coulter-Smith-----

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My time is not up.