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

Richard Boyd Barrett: A "Yes" or "No" would be great.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to state for the record that although the extent to which the public should be aware of the deliberations of the expert advisory group is debatable, members of this committee and other Deputies, as those who are responsible for oversight of this effort, should know the substance of those debates. I read the most recent minutes of the debate within the expert advisory group on the use...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not a bit of a problem that those responsible for infection control do not know who is contracting the disease? We have heard that young people are contracting the virus. Are they young people who were drinking cans on the banks of the canal or are they young people in direct provision? There is a big difference between those things and we need to know them in order to make informed...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my final few seconds, I ask for more information to be provided. For example, I have been contacted by hairdressers. They are glad to be going back to work, but they are worried.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had to dig out a shaver to get this cut. My point is that people are worried about the guidelines, whether they are adequate and how they will be policed. One way to test whether the guidelines will work in various sectors is to know whether there are particular outbreaks among hairdressers, transport workers or airport workers or, if we reopen schools, among schoolchildren. Surely that...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not reasonable for us to know that information?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: With regard to the Chairman's question and my earlier question, I would still like more affirmative confirmation that we will get additional information about things like the occupations and workplaces of cases. That will be critical as we open up the economy. I just wish to make that point. I have two very quick questions. Did Professor Mallon say that recovery times were considerably...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sure. Has that got something to do with the viral load they may have been exposed to because of the nature of their work? Is that a factor in how sick people get and how long they remain sick? I am just curious about that. I will move to my second question. I totally agree with what Professor Mallon said about the footprint. We will be putting a square peg into a round hole with...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could Professor Mallon put a figure on the amount of additional staffing and capacity we need across the health service in order to deal with both the pressures existing before Covid and the additional need for Covid care?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. The need for the summer provision, both to have it and to expand it, is obvious. The aspiration of the Minister to reopen the special educational needs provision as best as possible in September is a noble and correct one which I am sure everybody shares. However, I wonder if there is a Walter Mitty element about some of this in terms of...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The HSE put out guidelines for its staff some considerable time ago. How can the HSE give the occupational therapists and its people who are involved in the provision of these programmes clear guidance on PPE, social distancing and other matters but the Department of Education and Skills is still scrambling to do it and there is all that uncertainty?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Special Educational Needs: Impact of Covid-19 (Resumed) (25 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Tattan recognise that, come September, if, as Professor Paddy Mallon stated earlier, it is inevitable that we are facing a second wave, there will be a need to dramatically and quickly provide extra infrastructure, resources and staff - as we did for the health service via the Be on call for Ireland initiative - if we are to have any chance of meeting the eventualities we are likely...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú (Atógáil) - Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (27 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Barry and Paul Murphy. People Before Profit will not be supporting the nomination of Deputy Micheál Martin for Taoiseach. That has got nothing to do with him personally. It has to do with our understanding of what people voted for in the general election of 8 February. The Taoiseach derides the use of the word "change" by some of us. If it was just...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 32 - Business, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation at Debenhams has demonstrated yet again that the introduction of legislation providing for a hierarchy of creditors in the case of liquidation needs to be prioritised. We saw the same thing with Clerys, at which time such legislation was put forward in the Dáil. It is not acceptable that this situation is repeating itself. In the case of Debenhams, 2,000 staff, many of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (30 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason gyms are paying a 9% VAT rate while yoga studios pay a 13.5% rate; the supports he will put in place to help yoga studios reopen in view of the reduction in class sizes that will be necessary to maintain physical distancing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13644/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Data (30 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of the number of persons, earners and tax units who are self-employed and PAYE workers for each of the years 2016 to 2019 by the economic and industrial sector they were employed, income brackets (details supplied), the amount of tax paid in each earning and tax category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13652/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Employment Data (30 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance the average pre-tax and after-tax incomes of tax units earning above €100,000 annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13654/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Company Data (30 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of companies registered here; the number of those that paid corporation tax in the latest available annual figures; the number that did not pay corporation tax; the median and mean corporation tax payments for all companies registered here in that year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13653/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure school secretaries are employed as full-time public servants particularly in view of the contribution they made to the education of children during the course of the Covid-19 crisis and in view of the increased role they will have to play to ensure public health measures are followed as the schools go back in the autumn;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school secretaries that are normally laid off during the summer will be kept in full employment to help prepare for post-Covid-19 education in the autumn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13657/20]