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Estimates for Public Services 2020 (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point needed to be registered. It was a fair point.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Before this debacle emerged at the weekend, People Before Profit and RISE had already come to the conclusion we needed to move to a higher level of restrictions and that we should pursue a zero Covid-19 strategy. We held that view because after fairly intense discussions with public health and infectious disease experts, they predicted where we are now, with rising infection rates all over...

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are becoming involved. You might stop the clock.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My point-----

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government politicised this in a dishonest way instead of addressing the substance of the argument. There was an attempt to trash the person and the rationale behind his suggestions. That is what is wrong here. I ask the Minister to apologise for that treatment of the Chief Medical Officer on behalf of the Government and move on to a serious discussion about strategy, which cannot be...

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister agree that the Government's response to Dr. Tony Holohan's letter and recommendation was not the best? Should the Government not apologise for the treatment of the Chief Medical Officer?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Review (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the commission for the future of the Defence Forces; if representatives of an organisation (details supplied) will be on the commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29110/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 33. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the proposal that an organisation (details supplied) joins a union as an affiliate body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29111/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Trade Agreements (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment his views on a recent report from a university (details supplied) with regard to the Mercosur deal and the way in which it contradicts the EU Green Deal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24048/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Trade Agreements (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the discussions his Department has had with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the impact of the Mercosur trade deal on climate. [25178/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Trade Agreements (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the discussions he has had with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with regard to the impact of the Mercosur trade deal on farming here. [27551/20]

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Redundancy Payments (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he has discussed the proposals of unions (details supplied) to establish a fund to safeguard redundancy entitlements workers in the event of a liquidation. [27552/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a child (details supplied) can be found a place in a school that will suit their needs, as per the recommendations of their early intervention team clinicians; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can task the SENO in the appropriate area to support a child (details supplied) and their family in locating an appropriate school place in a primary school with an ASD unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29300/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with the really dire crisis produced by Covid-19, which is a health crisis, an economic crisis and a social crisis, we needed a budget that would support decisive action to defeat the threat of Covid-19 to public health and to support the workers, livelihoods and families most severely impacted as a result of the economic fallout of Covid-19. This budget has failed on both counts. The...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be brief. We oppose this. Smoking is a major public health problem. It kills large numbers of people and as a society we should do everything we can to discourage people from smoking, encourage them to break the addiction and get young people not to take up the habit in the first place. Nonetheless, a lot of people smoke and there are many reasons they do, such as stress....

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am amazed at the disconnect that seems to exist between the Green Party - and to be honest, the position the Labour Party has just announced - and the reality that huge numbers of working people inhabit. There is nothing discrediting the climate change agenda more than these kinds of regressive taxes. The Greens are signing their own death warrant with this kind of stuff. I am amazed it...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Corporation Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Financial Resolutions Nos. 5 and 6 seem fine to me. However, I want to express concern about Financial Resolution No. 4. The main mechanism through which some of the wealthiest corporations in the world avoid tax is through the category of intangible assets, such as patents on intellectual property, whereby big multinationals pay for the use of their own patents. For example, one...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Corporation Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In fairness, people other than Teachta Doherty have been making these points for some time. I am satisfied with the Minister's answer on this resolution. I am glad we have had the debate because I have raised this issue at the Committee on Budgetary Oversight and the finance committee over the past number of years. We never discuss tax reliefs in the same way we discuss expenditure, and we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (13 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the appeals process for leaving certificate 2020 students will be complete and all results available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30011/20]