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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the diabetes nurse for Loughlinstown health centre has not been replaced; if the post will be filled as soon as possible in order that those in need of the service do not have to go to Balally, County Dublin, or Ballywaltrim, County Wicklow, which are inaccessible by public transport for persons living in the area; if in the absence of a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it will be ensured that artists, arts workers and organisations can plan for next year by guaranteeing that at least the same level of increased investment in the Arts Council and Culture Ireland will be committed for 2021. [5428/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a roadmap will be created in order to address the way in which arts investment will be doubled by 2025; and if a commitment will be given to double investment in the Arts Council and Culture Ireland over the same period. [5429/20]

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are sharing time. I urge the Government and this House to start working immediately on a new deal for workers facing the prospect of protracted or long-term unemployment. I hear that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, briefed the Green Party and Fianna Fáil about potential economic devastation and a return to a 1980s-style depression with long-term unemployment. I do not think we should...

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I wish to press the Minister on the issue of public and private healthcare. Given that Covid-19 will be with us for the foreseeable future, any consideration of a return to the two-tier system is untenable. The Government needs to make up its mind. Fianna Fáil seems to be somewhat sitting on the fence and even hinting that we should go back...

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we need to go further now. There was never a justification for a two-tier system. There has been a general acknowledgement with Sláintecare that that is the case. Now that we have the private healthcare capacity in our hands, why on earth would we go back? It does not make any sense. There is a problem with this contract because it is essentially rent to people who are...

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nationalise them.

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. As the person who asked for it, I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Business Committee for agreeing to have this debate on the arts. I ask the Minister to imagine at the best of times what it would be like if we had no music, comedy, film, theatre or art. Imagine going through the past two months if we had none of those things. It is too...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Breslin and Dr. Holohan for all the work they have done. Nobody has doubts about that. Dr. Holohan said he has a concern about health workers. The infection rate among healthcare workers is very high - Dr. Holohan said it is 31%. Why is it so much higher among Irish healthcare workers than it is in other jurisdictions? It is one of the highest. Why is that the case? What...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are signed up to the European project on convalescent blood plasma therapy. I asked weeks ago for a report on how that is going. The results are promising. I understand there are apheresis machines for the extraction of blood plasma in St. James's Hospital and that 500 people who have recovered from Covid-19 have offered to make donations, but those machines are not being used to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Reid rightly praised the healthcare workers earlier. We all praise our heroic healthcare workers. How does that correctly given praise tally with the decision to recruit healthcare workers and nurses who volunteered to answer the call from Ireland through temporary agency contracts provided by for-profit groups such as CPL Resources? Those contracts are the worst of all possible...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope all of those people will be made permanent. Does Mr. Reid agree that having people waiting on trolleys in emergency departments is incompatible with the public health guidance on social distancing and has to be addressed, and that there has to be a zero tolerance attitude towards it?

Covid-19 (Finance): Statements (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is right and proper that we should direct huge and necessary resources to protect the jobs and incomes of ordinary workers, small businesses and struggling businesses that are impacted by the economic fallout of Covid-19. Does the Minister agree it would be completely unacceptable for companies that are hugely profitable and paying large dividends to shareholders or, for example, that are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Cycle to Work Scheme (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if the cycle-to-work scheme will be amended to eliminate the five year limit in order that those who have had bikes stolen can get a new bike, even if they have not reached the five year limit in the interest of public health and climate change and to encourage the increase of cycling as a preferred mode of transport; if those in receipt of social welfare...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that the system for calculating grades in the leaving certificate is anonymised in the interests of fairness for both teachers and pupils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6231/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that the appeals process for calculated grades for leaving certificate students will be transparent and that details of the way in which the determination is reached is made available to the pupil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6232/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Maternity Leave (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if maternity benefit will be extended for those that have had children born between January and March 2020 by three months in the interest of the healthy development of the children that have spent their first months amidst the Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7013/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 635. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when betting shops can re-open in view of the fact there is no guideline in the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business relating to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6684/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 651. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to provide supports for the live entertainment industry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7021/20]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Health and Safety Authority (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 652. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the additional staffing and resources that will be made available to the HSA to ensure that it can carry out widespread inspections of workplaces to ensure compliance with public health measures and social distancing, provision of PPE and sanitiser and to ensure prompt responses to reported breaches of public health guidelines; and...