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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked specifically about Wednesday and a debate which is of considerable public health importance.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not answer me.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: He did not give an answer.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is not allowing a debate on that at any point, is it?

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. Same point.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That has nothing to do with it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of additional staff recruited or seconded to his Department to assist with the response to the Covid-19 pandemic. [33222/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are any of the additional staff brought in to deal with Covid-19 addressing the issue of the recruitment of front-line workers necessary to deal with the crisis or the issue of the conditions and pay such workers have to accept? I have raised this matter with the Taoiseach a few times but the more I raise it, the more shocking and extensive are the emails and contacts I get from people. For...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have also raised this issue repeatedly with the Taoiseach. I go so far as to say that the failure to have an all-Ireland integrated strategy to deal with Covid-19 amounts to sabotage of the efforts necessary to deal with the virus. That is how high the stakes are, and all the public health experts, infectious disease experts and epidemiologists understand that point. It is simple to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent correspondences with the UK Prime Minister. [33223/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question, which I asked the last time, was on whether the Taoiseach actually talked to Boris Johnson and the British authorities about the imperative to have an all-island approach to Covid-19. What is their response to that? Are they indifferent or dismissive? From an infectious disease point of view, it is an irrefutable fact that to operate on an all-Ireland basis in dealing with...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I understand correctly, when Maitiú Ó Tuathail contacted the Tánaiste and asked him for the contract, the Tánaiste did not check with the IMO, the Minister for Health or the Department of Health to alert them to the fact that he intended to give it to Maitiú Ó Tuathail. Could he explain why this was the case? Presumably the Tánaiste knew, if Dr. Ó...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did it occur to the Tánaiste that he should have asked the Minister for Health, the IMO and the Department of Health before giving the document to a friend? Did that not occur to him at all?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure student nurses are paid for the work they carried out in the fight against Covid-19; the details of the regime for the testing of these students when they are going on placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33558/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow up on that, the Minister said earlier on this that it was education not work so we should not pay them. We should be clear that this departs from what the Government was forced to do in March and April when it had to acknowledge they were actually working and pay them at the healthcare assistant level. The idea that the student nurses who are on placement at this time are not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Education (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raised this issue with the Taoiseach on 20 October. It might be of interest to the Minister to know that the video of that engagement has been watched 250,000 times, which is very rare for any video of proceedings in this House in which I am involved. That was the scale of the response from student nurses. In that engagement, the Taoiseach said the following: ...I will engage with the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his decision to delay Census 2022. [28895/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for a national afforestation programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33227/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Biocidal Products (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the way in which a dangerous hand sanitiser was rolled out across the schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33228/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 102. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for investment in testing tracing infrastructure and public health tracing teams in the coming weeks to ensure that when Ireland emerges from the current level 5 there will be the resources necessary to track down any new outbreaks of the virus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33225/20]