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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Efficiency (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the refurbishment and retrofitting of all local authority housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25177/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the various rates of pandemic unemployment payments, including the sectors in which the recipients previously worked; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28176/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of paying all those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment a rate of €350 until the end of April 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28177/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing all social welfare payments to €350 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28178/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing all social welfare payments to €300 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28179/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of granting a €1,000 bonus to all recipients of the carer's allowance. [28184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Wage (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of moving all social welfare claimants, including pensioners, to a living wage. [28185/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the number of disease control workplace inspectors in the employ of the HSPC; the estimated full year cost of their employment; and the percentage of businesses inspected by them in 2019 and to date in 2020. [28187/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Leas-Cheann Comhairle sure?

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wanted to hear from the rest of the Opposition. This is a change in the speaking order but I will speak anyway. In the self-obsessed, self-serving bubble in which the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Green Party Government seems to exist, the cut in the PUP does not really matter because those parties are more concerned with trying to hold together their stumbling Government, petulant-----

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think Deputy Sherlock is right.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was saying that I think the Deputy is right. I said he was right.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Sherlock should not insult me, then.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But-----

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not an argument but this is a fundamental break from the normal speaking order.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely do not want to delay proceedings and I know the Leas-Cheann Comhairle is in a difficult position but I agree with Deputy Sherlock. I do not know why he is giving out to me. This is our motion. We have introduced it and we want to hear what the other parties have to say before we respond.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we change the order now?

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We could just revert to the normal order.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I just make a proposal to the House? I propose that we simply move to Sinn Féin now and Solidarity-People Before Profit will come back after the other Opposition parties; in other words, after the Independent Group. That is the order we previously followed.

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are all in this together; give me a break. If the Government goes ahead with the cuts instigated for the PUP, not only will it do a great injustice to hundreds of thousands of workers who have lost their jobs and income as a result of the pandemic and the measures taken by the Government to address it, but it will also do something very dangerous in undermining the collective social...