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Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 380. To ask the Minister for Health if the AMPDS system has a facility to allocate crews a rest break; if not, the system used to ensure crews have their mandatory rest breaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11903/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 381. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether driver fatigue is an issue in the NAS; the number of ambulance crews in 2018 that had to discontinue their shift due to fatigue; the number of incidents in which ambulance crews and-or managers had to recover them and provide assistance to get them back to their station's base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11904/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Staff (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if staff are being deducted pay from their core salary after having availed of mandatory compensatory rest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11905/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made between the HSE and his Department regarding meetings between both in respect of the ongoing ambulance service dispute; the resolution he has found; when he plans to inform, update or invite a union (details supplied) into the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11906/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name of the person who will replace a person (details supplied) as chairperson of the Taxi Advisory Committee. [11855/19]

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was caught up in committee.

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do.

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Fianna Fáil for the motion. I agree with the overall thrust of it and the various measures proposed to try to deal with high insurance costs. Costs have tailed off a bit for motorists but are still significantly impacting home insurance, business insurance, public liability insurance and so on where insurance premium increases have been very dramatic and punitive for some...

Recent Developments on Brexit: Statements (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry.

Recent Developments on Brexit: Statements (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are witnessing the rather shambolic death throes of the great British Empire, as it would have seen itself. Given the blood and hardship for which that empire was responsible across the globe, one cannot be terribly sorry to see this decline. The rotten politics, which dominates the British Tory party and to which Theresa May has been hostage, is propelling us towards the ever more...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his implementation of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care, in particular the commitment to invest in talk therapies as an alternative to relying on psychiatric medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12388/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the dramatic increase in the prescription of psychiatric medication over the period from 2012 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12387/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to his Department spent on agency nurses; the percentage of nurses this is; the way in which this compares with the same statistics in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5942/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if he has commissioned or carried out an investigation into the projected number of nursing staff that will be needed over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5943/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses working in the health service by grade (details supplied); the way in which this compares with the same statistics in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5941/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the tender process used to recruit the contractors for the new national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5944/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if he has commissioned or carried out an investigation into the cost-benefit analysis of the use of agency staff versus full-time staff across the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5945/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with the Ministers for Children and Youth Affairs and Education and Skills with regard to the increasing length of time children are waiting for assessments of needs and access to early intervention in the case of disability; if consideration has been given to a strategy across all three Departments that will see disabled and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank everyone on the Commission team for their work and their presence. Following on from Deputy Broughan's references to Brexit, there is something slightly surreal today about discussing the economic situation in Ireland with an assumption, technical or otherwise, that things remain the same when there is a very significant chance that we are going to get a shock. I would like to know...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but has he anything to say about wages and precarity? The big obstacles to people returning to work include low levels of pay, lack of job security and so on. They hamper people making the decision to go back into the workplace, which we clearly need in a whole number of sectors Mr. Martínez Mongay has rightly identified.