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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a one line question for Mr. Woods about something he said. If I heard him correctly, he said the board knew about the escalation from €61 million and had received a figure at a meeting in September. Is he saying the figure of €450 million was known at a meeting in September but that it did not get to the Minister until November? If it is true, it is shocking. I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019) Richard Boyd Barrett: We should see that report.
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ministers should stop the propaganda and the dishonest spin and tell the truth about the nurses. That is the message I received from the nurses outside today and those on the picket lines every day. They are sick of hearing the Ministers say they are on salaries of €57,000 and that there is no retention or recruitment problem. It is nonsense. There are unsafe levels of staffing...
- Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very simple. Does the Minister for Health accept that we have unsafe staffing levels in our hospitals? We should have a ratio of 1:4 but it is more like 1:8 or 1:11. Does the Minister accept that we are short hundreds of nurses when it comes to safe staffing levels in psychiatric and mental health services?
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (7 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that a person (details supplied) continues to receive their rent allowance in view of the circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6054/19]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us have been saying that for a while.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is how tight the budget is.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked several times, as have others, whether PwC is the appropriate group to investigate the scandal of overruns in the national children’s hospital. As the Taoiseach is aware, PwC worked for BAM, the main contractor, at the centre of this issue. It has received up to €34 million in fees for auditing BAM. That is a serious conflict of interest. I do not see how one...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not an answer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when he last met with the Dublin inner city forum. [5309/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The People Before Profit local representative in the north inner city, Gillian Brien, who resides in the flats on Constitution Hill, was forced recently to organise a community protest at Dublin City Council offices over rat infestation in the flats and apartments on Constitution Hill, Queen Street, Dorset Street and Upper Dominick Street. A five year old child was bitten by a rat recently....
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the reason they have had to organise protests.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit does not have a majority on that council. I can assure the Taoiseach of that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent contacts with the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission. [5670/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trip to Brussels and the meetings he attended. [6709/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The obnoxiousness and political bankruptcy of the Tory Brexiteers and UKIP mean that just about anybody else looks good compared to them but in recent weeks it has maybe masked the lack of principle and ethics of the EU itself, when one looks at how it is dealing with events that are unfolding in Catalonia or, for that matter, Venezuela. The Europe that proclaims itself as an upholder of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Maduro is an authoritarian. I am not a supporter of Maduro. I am a supporter of the people's revolt that happened a number of years ago against the deep inequalities in Venezuelan society.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Maduro is an authoritarian but that does not give Trump or anybody else the right to interfere in the political processes in Venezuela. That is up to the people of Venezuela. Does the Taoiseach really think the Government or the EU should be interfering and, essentially, giving cover to Trump, who is threatening military action in Venezuela?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I took far less time than some others.