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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am out of time.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that a reference to minimum infectious dose? My question is whether the witnesses think the lack of PPE and staff shortages in our public health system, which seemed to preoccupy a lot of the debates in the minutes-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Reopening the Economy: Public Health Advice (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----contributed to the high infection rate among health workers in the hospitals?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While this is primarily about the climate transition we need to make, given that the Minister of State is here, I want to raise one urgent issue. It would be good to get his response to it. Threshold is the latest group today to appeal to the Government to extend the eviction ban for a number of months. I argue it should be extended for the foreseeable future. Some of us have been...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is. If we had a State company giving guaranteed, quality employment, recruiting apprentices and so on, we could do the scale of retrofit programme that we need to do. The other point is the pay-as-you-save scheme. As the Government has been talking about it for years, why the hell do we not have it? I simply do not understand. We should give people €30,000 or €40,000 in...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I have raised on a number of occasions my disquiet at the fact that the Minister decided to go through recruitment agencies, such as CPL, to recruit staff for the health service during the pandemic. I refer to the 70,000 people who bravely volunteered for the Be On Call for Ireland initiative. I asked a question recently of the Minister which was...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Recruitment agencies. I simply did not get an answer. I got other answers but not the answer about how much it cost. What I was told, which is fairly extraordinary, is that of the 70,000 people who applied for the Be On Call for Ireland programme, 111 have been recruited. That is pitiful. It is against a background of a dire need for increased staffing for Covid and non-Covid care, where...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The agencies' pitiful failure, and leaving not recruited hundreds who are qualified, is inexplicable, as is the Department not outlining the cost. I have a question about St. Mary's Centre on Merrion Road, run by the Sisters of Charity, who say the centre will have to close because it is unable to meet the HIQA requirements. This is a centre for the vulnerable and elderly where there...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason a person (details supplied) has not had a response to the application submitted 12 weeks ago to rejoin the Army; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11088/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider asking financial lending institutes to extend the AIP, approval in principle, beyond six months for persons with mortgage approval as they will not allow drawdown of the loan while the lendee is in the wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11137/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which it is planned to vindicate the right to education of children here in view of the public health guidelines in place; if additional teachers are being recruited; if additional buildings are being sourced to ensure a reduced pupil teacher ratio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11562/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a commitment will be given in the interest of victims, the public and history, to ensure that there is no seal of 75 or other number of years in a future retention of records bill with regard to the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Redress Review Committee;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 398. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the direct provision centres here; the location, address and number of residents in each location by age and gender; the number of residents in each location who are victims of torture and trauma; the annual cost of each location by payments to the companies running the location and the different companies providing services;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence Policy (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 399. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress of the key commitments in the Istanbul Convention ratified in July 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11561/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 713. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time between all persons with suspected cases of Covid-19 who requested a test and the completion of the contact tracing for these cases in the weeks commencing 18 and 25 May and 1 June 2020, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11553/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 819. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if taxi owners will be off the road after 26 July 2020 if their NCT and suitability expires, in view of the fact they are unable to get an appointment for the NCT and suitability test for their taxi prior to 26 July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10560/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Community Childcare Subvention Programme (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 923. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if certainty will be provided for parents and crèche owners by reactivating the CCS in view of the fact that crèches cannot plan adequately (details supplied) and are due to open on 29 June 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11554/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Policy (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 924. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the future of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence units nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11557/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Policy (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 926. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress of the domestic violence accommodation review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11559/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 925. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a progress report will be provided on employing the promised domestic abuse worker in Tusla in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11558/20]