Results 14,561-14,580 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will have to study the witness's answer afterwards because it contained a lot of detail. I now return to the testing and warnings. When Dr. David Gibbons, Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith and others made their warnings and indicated their fears on the consequences of outsourcing, it was not mere speculation. They had evidence, namely, that the positive rate coming from US laboratories, because of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. O'Brien is saying that the detection rate improved with the new contract. Can he say that definitively?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One factor suggested for the inferior detection rate and the quality of the screening was that readers in the United States were reading 80 to 90 tests daily, whereas the NHS had a maximum of 50 that readers were allowed to examine. Here in Ireland the figure was more like 30 to 35 slides. I would have thought that if a reader is looking at 90 slides each day, the possibility of making...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the readers and the number of readings being done?
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Applications (3 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a travel pass will issue to a person (details supplied) irrespective of means. [19306/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (3 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she plans to address the anomaly that persons who are homeless and under 25 years of age on jobseeker's allowance are on a reduced payment as per the rules of the scheme making it much more difficult for them to extricate themselves from homelessness. [19307/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the referendum campaign on the eighth amendment to the Constitution. [18890/18]
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever about the technical judgment and whether this issue can be raised by way of an amendment, we object to it and we expressed dissatisfaction with the decisions that were made following the meeting last week of different parties. Our delegate, Deputy Bríd Smith, indicated that she was unhappy that the course that was proposed to deal with cervical-----
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that we think those matters, the plan of action set out by the Government, should be discussed and scrutinised in this House. We are certainly not happy with it. I want to register that last week in the all-party Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health we asked Mr. Tony O'Brien direct questions about figures on the accuracy and detection of smear tests in the different labs. It...
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but there are certain facts that should be in the public domain now because Mr. Tony O'Brien told us he would give them to us.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He has not given them to us and that is why we want a debate.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not happy with the Order because these questions are not being answered.
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, announced over the weekend that she intended to launch a campaign on the issue of bogus self-employment. That is welcome, although is somewhat late in the day, given that people have been protesting about this issue for years. Will the Minister's campaign include other forms of precarious and insecure...
- Order of Business (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is they do not know by whom they are employed.
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to review and increase the income limits for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19869/18]
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are these questions grouped?
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We cannot have any further delay on this. It is compounding the already multiple injustices of the current housing crisis. Every single week, working people come into my office - I am sure it is happening everywhere else - who are being cut off housing lists. They may have been on those lists for ten years or 15 years. Then they are just gone because they do a bit of overtime or get a...
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely true.
- Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (8 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Minister of State is telling me that he can fix the case I mentioned, I will be very happy. I am telling the Minister of State that a person who did some overtime was taken off the list, and then after appealing and fighting the decision the family was told the appeal was not going to be accepted but they could reapply. Once that was done, the family lost their ten years on the list...