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Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. Any respite for people who are threatened with eviction is better than their not getting that respite at all. This is true in the current circumstances and in any circumstances where people face the possibility of being made homeless by a landlord, overwhelmingly because that landlord wishes to sell a property or refurbish it or, as also happens, the...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no justification for what is happening to those people. Whatever about the perfect being the enemy of the good, which is the argument the Government is making in saying that we cannot solve everything right now because of constitutional limits and so on - I do not buy that argument, by the way - there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever, when we have a Covid strategy and when the...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons we opposed the extension of the emergency legislation today, and will oppose the plan to impose fines in connection with the public health restrictions, is not because we do not support the public health measures or think that people should not comply with them to drive down the virus, but because we do not think coercion is the way to achieve compliance with public health...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I never said there would be a flood of evictions.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will let Deputy Barry speak for himself, but I never said that.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I said in my contribution and previously was that it is a fact that the majority of people who come into my clinic because they are threatened with eviction are in that position because the landlord is selling. It is not a flood, but there is a constant flow of people of all ages into my clinic. As a result of the eviction ban which applied during the heavy lockdown the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Statute of Limitations (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if changes will be made to the time period that a case of clinical negligence can be brought; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32127/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if a space is available for a person (details supplied) in a service shortly or in the next term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32107/20]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: News has just broken that the National Virus Reference Laboratory, NVRL, in University College Dublin has released the following urgent notification in relation to SARS-CoV-2 testing at NVRL: Due to unavoidable staff shortages the VRL will not be able to provide any SARS-CoV-2 testing on the weekends of the 24th/25th and 26th October and the weekend of the 31st October/1st November 2020....

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But I am not agreeing section 2.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I comment on it briefly first?

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This section deals with definitions, particularly the definition around dwelling event. I just want to point out the sort of preposterousness of this and the misguided focus that it implies. This lies at the centre of how misguided this entire legislation is, namely, trying to suggest that the primary responsibility for rising infection rates and the necessity to resort to another lockdown...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move Amendment No.1: In page 4, line 36, after “Equality” to insert “and Dáil Éireann”. I did not respond to Deputy Stephen Donnelly's last point because I did not want to delay this section, but his argument is also relevant to this amendment. We are talking about weighing the Minister's political judgment against the collective wisdom of the...

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Ó Ríordáin was late and has messed up my speaking slot.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My group has not spoken.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to be helpful.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To save time and, hopefully, for us not to be forced into a vote which would actually be a waste of time at this point, if it is only a minute in the difference, why will the Government not just agree to the original proposal, which was ten and five minutes? With due respect to Deputy Mac Lochlainn, I do not agree with the splitting of seven and eight because it will just mess things up...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. The Solidarity-People Before Profit group wrote to the Business Committee to state our view that time should have been made available this week to discuss the significant concerns regarding health and safety in schools, particularly in the context of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland ballot. It expressed concerns about the failure to apply the European Centre...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was asking about Wednesday. Wednesday is what we are talking about.