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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 927. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and name of women's refuges nationwide; the funding models for running the refuges; the up-front costs for sourcing the buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11560/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1029. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a series of matters (details supplied) relating to planned changes to the pandemic unemployment payment; the new payment in respect of each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11555/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1086. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, approved housing bodies and Tusla to ensure that there is a women's refuge in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11552/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1087. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the moratorium on evictions and revise the manner in which landlords can evict for rent arrears in view of the extreme loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11566/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1088. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a moratorium on upward rent review will be implemented in view of the extreme loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11567/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1089. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a greater level of support will be ensured for tenants accruing arrears due to a loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; if further support will be ensured for HAP and rent allowance tenants who are paying top-ups to their landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11568/20]

Supporting Inclusion and Combating Racism in Ireland: Statements (17 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. We must not just condemn racism, we must also fight against it. That is why People Before Profit declares absolute solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and the wave of protest across the world in the aftermath of the horrific killing of George Floyd. There has been a rightful recognition by a vast number of people worldwide that it was not an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ceann Comhairle knows that I already made this point to the Business Committee, but I want to formally put it on the record. I am not at all happy that the Dáil is only sitting one day this week or that there is a similar plan for it to sit only one day next week. I do not see the reason or justification for scaling back a Dáil that is already significantly scaled back. It...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is all the more reason we should debate the issues we are facing.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The decision of Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party to drop the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 and leave it out of the proposed programme for Government is a disgrace, and a betrayal of the Palestinian people and of any semblance of commitment to human rights for people generally, specifically for the long-persecuted Palestinian people. Was dropping...

Reopening of Schools and Summer Provision 2020: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister aware of how frustrated and annoyed teachers and parents are about the lack of clarity regarding the reopening of schools in September? He needs to be. Every primary school knows or learns quickly that one cannot put a square peg into a round hole, but it seems that the Minister and the Government think one can and are determined to try to put a square peg into a round hole....

Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I saw the Taoiseach on "Prime Time" having fun at Sinn Féin's expense and referring to it as-----

Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, "Spin Féin". Listening to it, I thought that it was ironic. I thought it was even more ironic when I listened to the Minister and to Deputy Donnelly today. Frankly, the performances by the Taoiseach on "Prime Time" and those of the Minister and Deputy Donnelly today suggest that it is more about "Spina Gael" and "Spina Fáil". I mean that in all sincerity because there is...

Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Then the truth is revealed when Deputy Donnelly gets up to speak and it is very clear that the party with whom Fine Gael has just agreed a deal, and the deal itself, make a clear and explicit commitment not to go forward, but to go back. That commitment is to reopen private healthcare and to source the additional capacity that we now need more than ever. We needed it badly before Covid but...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order before I start my questions, given there are not as many committee members here will we get a chance for a second round of questions? Now that we have our experts-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been watching the whole thing, but for public health guidelines-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is for precautions.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I was just asking if we will get a second chance.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to put formally on the record my request that the minutes of the expert advisory group are published up to date. I do not know how many times I have asked for this. It is boring how many times I have had to ask. It is even more important that these minutes are published and that we know what the experts are saying at a time when there is very significant pressure from industry to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Testing and Tracing (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be great if we could get an answer on whether there is any difficulty with that.