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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1395. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his negotiations with the private hospital sector to ensure a permanent increase in the capacity across the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33226/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1401. To ask the Minister for Health if student nurses on job placement in hospital and care settings are being paid by the HSE or another body; the rates of pay they are receiving and entitled to; if they will be given employee rights while in these roles; if so, the rights they will be entitled to; if these placements, payments and employee rights extend to the duration of any Covid-19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1408. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the laboratory service at St. Michael's Hospital had its hours of operation reduced on 5 August 2020 back to pre-pandemic levels (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that out-of-lab-hours point-of-care blood testing is being used, despite the fact that this equipment is known to generate erroneous results, and that...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if dog grooming and dog training falls under essential animal welfare services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32310/20]

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever about the finer details and implications of the matters concerning the Tánaiste yesterday, one implication is definitely that there are many groups of workers who are scratching their heads and wishing that they had such matey backchannels with the Tánaiste or Taoiseach of the day. One of those groups of workers that the Taoiseach has suggested it is in his DNA to...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has an invitation to meet the shop stewards today to hear directly from them. They are also holding an online mass meeting on Thursday. The Taoiseach is also invited to that and they would be very happy for him to attend to hear from them. Successive Governments failed to legislate for Duffy-Cahill and now Debenhams find themselves in a situation where a company is once...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing, infrastructure and digital unit of his Department. [33224/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the Land Development Agency. In my area, the councillors on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are going to be asked to vote for the disposal of public land to the Land Development Agency, supposedly to build social and affordable housing, which we and others have campaigned for on the Shanganagh Castle site for a long time. There is, however,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: After the debate that took place on mother and baby homes in the Dáil, we, like many other Deputies, were overwhelmed by the response from people and the anger, anxiety and concern expressed, particularly by those who had been in those institutions and suffered abuse in them. I held an online public meeting which was attended by hundreds of people, many of whom had suffered horrific...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to apologise to the ambulance paramedics because I meant to raise this matter last night in the context of the debate with the Tánaiste. There are many angles to that discussion, but one is the attitude the Government takes to negotiating with trade unions or representative organisations. A huge contrast was glaringly apparent, and this is directly related to the issue of social...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: NASRA is not doing that.

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am something of a political nerd when it comes to finance Bills. I am fascinated by the way they provide a mechanism to transfer the wealth generated by society and by working people into the hands of the very wealthy in an opaque manner, year after year. For the most part, working people do not know the details of how they are being robbed of the wealth they collectively produce. I play...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (4 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 159. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the contract awarded to a company (details supplied) for recruitment during Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34153/20]

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an exercise of the most cynical game-playing by the Government.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankly, Government Deputies are smirking through their words because they know that it is cynical game-playing and politically motivated spite essentially-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----against the fact that an Opposition party put forward a no confidence motion in a Minister. It is important for people to know that Deputy Pringle, at the Business Committee, proposed an alternative that would have saved the €25,000 it will cost to move us at short notice over to the convention centre when we had decided we would be sitting here today.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt the Deputy. Notwithstanding the political differences he may have with Sinn Féin and the Opposition over the motion, a proposal was put forward by Deputy Pringle at the Business Committee to save us having to incur additional cost and the impact on staff of having to move to the convention centre today. The Government did not accept that, purely for political...

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was said that the argument was most vociferously conducted by Deputy Griffin in pretty much the same breath as he said we should effectively do away with the Business Committee.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the real agenda. The Government wants to do away with any cross-party co-operation on how we set the schedule of this Dáil-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because it wants to steamroll whatever it wants to go through the House, regardless of the feelings of the rest of the democratically elected Opposition.