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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The inspections and monitoring.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the activities of the shared island unit in his Department. [23668/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit is an all-Ireland party. We believe we must move to a united Ireland and end partition. A number of groups and parties in the House would say they subscribe to that view in one way or another. This is a very opportune time in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and how it has highlighted the irrationality of partition when we need an all-Ireland approach to health and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there time left?

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not rehearse the despicable treatment of more than 1,000 Debenhams workers by Debenhams. It has been well rehearsed in the House. I thank the Independent Group for tabling this motion. We also put forward a motion before the summer recess. All agree that what Debenhams has done to its workers is absolutely shocking, but what we must discuss is the unwillingness of the Government to...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry, unless Deputy Paul Murphy comes to the Chamber, in which case we will change it slightly. This place, I have to say, makes me laugh or cry sometimes. We have had an hour of Government speakers before we get reached, by which time the Minister - no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Troy - is gone. That is what the changes to the speaking...

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Had it nothing to do with Deputy Lahart then?

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As our representative on the Business Committee, I asked for this debate a number of weeks ago. It is telling about the coup d'étatthe new Government implemented to silence the smaller parties that having asked for the debate, we had to wait for three or four Government speakers who spoke during three different slots before some of us got to respond to the Government's position. It is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We also asked about a debate on the new regulations. They are linked to the testing and tracing regime because if that was what it should be, we might not be in the situation of having to impose harsh new restrictions. The need for debate on this is doubly the case because the Business Committee also signed off on the schedule for the Covid committee. The CMO, NPHET, the HSE and the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very relevant. The restrictions being brought in are having a huge impact, yet there will be no discussion in the Dáil and now, even though it was scheduled, there will be no discussion of those matters in the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response. It is unacceptable.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that the sessions that were due to go ahead and that we agreed to go ahead with-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----were going to compensate, to some degree, for the lack of debate-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on the regulations and the plans and the associated implications. Now, however, with a few hours' notice, we have been told that is not happening. We do not, therefore, get a debate in the Dáil and we do not get to scrutinise these incredibly important matters in the Covid-19 committee. I ask the Taoiseach to comment on the fact that part of the justification, incredibly, given...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I brought the attention of the Dáil to this matter and it still does not answer the question as to why the Minister for Health could not come in. The issue is not about the winter planning, which is a separate matter. There was no specific item about them coming in to deal with the winter plan. This plan has now become the excuse not to discuss the restrictions. The Minister disowns...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, is working in the front-line services.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is threatening to unravel the sense of social solidarity that did exist and that underpins the compliance and cohesion we need to deal with Covid-19 because if people do not understand the logic and the rationale behind measures they will lose faith in the public health effort. The Taoiseach doubled down on that mistake by then cutting into the economic supports for people...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know, and I will keep making it because it is an insult and it seriously undermines accountability in that Ministers are not actually here to be held account by all of the party groups. It is a studied insult and contempt.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not. Since I have made the same points on the other issues, I will not labour them. When I came in here this morning, I had no intention of calling a vote until I heard from the Chairman of the Covid committee that the Minister for Health, representatives of the HSE, the Chief Medical Officer and representatives of NPHET were not coming in. Our spokespeople were prepared for those...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the UK Prime Minister. [24047/20]