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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 809. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the deal with a company (details supplied) and other recruitment agencies to recruit healthcare workers to deal with the Covid-19 crisis; the amount the company or other such agencies are being paid; the number of healthcare workers which have been recruited; the reason this method to recruit has been chosen rather than recruiting directly to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 810. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a series of matters (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7024/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 811. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the deal with the private hospitals and plans for maintaining the capacity to deal with non-Covid-19 related issues over the coming months; his plans for non-Covid hospitals; his views on whether all private healthcare and hospital capacity should be taken permanently under public control in view of the need for permanent increases in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1093. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to provide supports for the live entertainment industry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7015/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1094. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to support taxi drivers in an industry that has been devastated by the collapse in tourism, air travel, pubs and restaurants, live entertainment and sports (details supplied); if a financial support package will be established for these drivers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1095. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if supports for new drivers entering the taxi industry will be ceased in view of the fact the industry is over-supplied; if a buy back scheme will be established in which taxi drivers exiting the industry can recover the cost they paid for their licences and or hand the licence on to a family member as an incentive for those exiting...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1096. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a scheme will be established to financially support taxi drivers to install partitions in their taxis to protect their health and that of their passengers or possibly charge the NTA with installing such partitions in all taxis; if disinfecting and cleaning bays with sanitiser and disinfectant sprays will be established in towns and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1097. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if drivers and passengers with Bus Éireann will be kept safe as the restrictions are relaxed over the next weeks; if protective screens will be put in place between the driver and passengers on all buses; if a system of payment will be put in place that does not involve the exchange of money between driver and passenger; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1301. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the pandemic unemployment payment will be extended to persons over 66 and under 18 years of age who were working prior to the pandemic, to those in the gig economy and involved in precarious work who are ineligible due to not having worked on 6 March 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7012/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a commitment will be given to each local authority that all funds lost to the authorities due to the pandemic will be covered by central Government and not impact on other grants and local authority funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7014/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1432. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to provide supports for the live entertainment industry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7008/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1433. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will seek supports from Coronavirus response investment initiative to specifically support live entertainment performers whose industry has collapsed as a result of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7009/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1434. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will discuss with the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection a new mechanism to ensure that all artists, musicians, performers and technical support staff whose work is precarious by nature and have lost their income due to Covid-19, are eligible for the Covid-19 payment, even if they were not working on...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1435. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional funds will be made available to the Covid-19 crisis response award by the Arts Council in order to support artists that have lost income as a result of the health crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7011/20]

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (21 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised repeatedly the plight of particular groups of workers who find their livelihood and employment devastated as a result of the crisis: the 2,000 Debenhams workers; English foreign language teachers; workers in the arts, music and live entertainment and gig economy; and taxi drivers - all of whom need specific road maps and specific packages of support. In the short time that I...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (21 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Companies that are giving massive dividends to their shareholders, making big profits and who are big multinationals are benefiting from these schemes, as I raised with the Minister for Finance yesterday, whereas the arts get €1 million. It is a stark contrast. The taxi driving industry has been absolutely decimated, with 70% to 80% of people off the road. The Taoiseach may be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I concur with that point, but I want to raise another issue. The sessions we are having this week, and indeed every week, were established on the basis that we could ask questions of Ministers and get accountability during the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week in the Dáil, I was given a commitment by the CMO that they would publish the minutes of the expert advisory group to NPHET.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, hold on, a Cheann Comhairle. I am pointing out that the procedures and the mechanisms for accountability set up by the Business Committee, where I first sought the publication of the minutes of the expert advisory group on 16 March-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 16 March-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There were multiple commitments. Are commitments made-----