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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 873. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that nurses and midwives who were awarded a pay rise after the industrial action of spring 2019 are now in receipt of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14559/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 874. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the agreement between his Department and a recruitment company (details supplied) and other recruitment agencies with regard to the Be On Call for Ireland initiative; the fee paid to the agency; the number of persons who were recruited; the nature of the contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14560/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not quite hear Mr. Makhlouf's answer earlier when reference was made to people who had obtained mortgage approval but are not being allowed to draw down their mortgages because they are in receipt of the wage subsidy scheme or the pandemic universal payment. Mr. Makhlouf has said he takes seriously his role as guardian of the consumer. This issue also touches upon his role of ensuring...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What can Mr. Makhlouf do, or what can be done, to address the fact that banks are not doing that?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: Overall Fiscal and Monetary Position (7 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On another subject, there is an amazing contrast between the attitude of regulators, financial authorities and so on, and, indeed, Governments, towards the economic crisis this time around and their attitude towards the previous one. We are now talking about things that we were told after the crash in 2008 absolutely should not and could not be done, namely, borrowing to keep people in work...

Rent and Mortgage Arrears: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be share time with Deputy Mick Barry. I will take five minutes and he will take four. The eviction of people into homelessness was utterly unacceptable before the pandemic. Solidarity-People Before Profit put forward an anti-evictions Bill that was passed with a majority in the previous Dáil. If I am correct, Fianna Fáil voted for that Bill and, ultimately, that is the...

Vote 33 - Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (9 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am provoked by Deputy Gannon's reference to the venue we are in. It is a nice venue but if one was trying to do an artistic evocation of the weirdness, surreality and alien character of the impact of the pandemic on Irish society, one could do worse than start with an image of this place, with Deputies sitting miles away from each other in this weird environment. Having said that, it is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad to hear that the Government will appeal the sectoral employment order. It seems to me that there are very strong grounds for that appeal which, as was stated, will affect thousands of construction workers and, potentially, hundreds of thousands of other workers in sectors where SEOs or sectoral agreements maintain some kind of minimum standard of pay and conditions. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. I wrote to the Business Committee this morning stating that tomorrow or on another day this week, there will need to be statements on foot of the ruling, which will come out tomorrow, of the General Court of the European Union on the Apple tax case. This is not a small matter. We will get a ruling tomorrow as to whether the decision of the European Commission to award...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is time on Thursday.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As long as that is a commitment that the Government will facilitate statements.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No later than early next week.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not "could". Will be.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If that is a commitment from the Government.

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure whether my colleagues are coming in to share the time but if they do I will share it. We do not oppose the legislation. I welcome the fact that apparently, some lessons were at least partially learned from the follies of the response of the European Union, its member states and here in Ireland to the crisis in 2008 and the austerity that followed it. We need not return to...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The interest is building up.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to safeguard the pay and rights of construction, cleaning and security workers affected by a recent High Court judgment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15809/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Efficiency (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the new measures he is planning for those who do not have sufficient financial resources, particularly those with a disability, to support them in the retrofit in view of the target to retrofit 500,000 houses; and if there are existing supports for persons on a disability outside the mainstream grants. [15469/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Tests (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 233. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for Covid–19 testing within sporting clubs. [15470/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will advise travel agents that are liable for refunding clients who have booked holidays but cannot travel due to public health advice in circumstances in which the airline and hoteliers will not refund, in view of the fact that flights are running and the agent will be out of pocket, jeopardising its business. [15472/20]