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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if he has costed a move towards a Covid-19 saliva sample testing system; if so, the estimated full-year cost of conducting 35,000 tests per day via the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27806/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which the Covid-19 pen-and-paper tracking and tracing system is currently configured; the estimated full-year cost of operating the system; if there were reductions in the numbers of staff involved in the system following the introduction of the Covid-19 tracker application. [27807/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 285. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health consultants in the employ of the public health service; and the estimated full-year cost of employing them. [27808/20]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It could be the beginning of a great relationship.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, indeed. Everything we do at the moment, we do in the context of Covid-19 and the need to maintain social solidarity in the face of the existential threat we face now and which we have been facing for some time. The guiding principle that has underpinned this is that we are all in it together. People bought into that and have suffered great hardship on the understanding that we would...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [27113/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste launched a really cynical, politically motivated attack on the public health team in order to cover over the Government's failure to use the summer period to resource our ICUs to the level we need, our hospitals generally and a tracing regime that would allow us to chase the virus, rather than be chased by it, as is currently happening. Regardless of the cynicism of the...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the amount his Department has spent on advertising for online, print and broadcasting to date in 2020. [28894/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Taoiseach wants an effective campaign of public information in the situation we are in, he should not have a control freak attitude, which is fearful of public debate. In fact, he should use the resources he is making available for online activity or announcements to actually facilitate debate and provide more detailed information than is currently available. There is a tendency for...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A lot of the considerations are not.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At five weeks behind.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Departmental Advertising (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, the minutes are five weeks behind.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee which addresses the economy will next meet. [28548/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I echo Deputy Barry's call with regard to the Debenhams workers. It is shameful that 1,000 workers have to continue their protest for this length of time to get basic justice and decent treatment from the liquidator. Debenhams clearly does not care a damn about them. The Taoiseach must exercise the influence he has to ensure those workers get a just settlement. Martin in Blackrock, who I...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Personally, yes.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We agree with that.

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what it is worried about.

Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The true history of the attitude of successive Irish Governments to culture, arts, music and events, and to the crews that stand behind them, is a history of lip service without tangible support. That is most obviously reflected in the fact that we spend one sixth of the average spend across Europe on funding arts and culture. The events and music sectors have never received a penny,...