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Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department on census 2021. [33230/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was late to the Chamber and missed the Minister of State's reply. I take it that he is saying that the CSO, for public health reasons, feels it cannot go ahead with the census. That is perfectly understandable in the current circumstances. However, the Government could use the interregnum to prepare for a census to take place a year later and ensure we use the information provided by it....

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if he will provide grants and supports to the self-employed and sole traders that work as taxi drivers that continue to have work related overheads despite having little or no work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35170/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) whose driver theory test has been cancelled due to Covid-19 level 5 restrictions has had it put back 13 weeks to the next available slot instead of moving all appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34578/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a timescale for the implementation of the family courts Bill announced on 30 September 2020; when recommendations of the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on the reform of the family law system, published on 25 October 2019, particularly recommendation 36 of the report, will be...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 614. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) can be issued their travel documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34905/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 725. To ask the Minister for Health the number and nature of vacant positions in the HSE, by role and sector, and the length of time the position has been held vacant. [34966/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 726. To ask the Minister for Health the details of plans to utilize health capacity within the private hospital sector during the next six months. [34967/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I spoke to the Taoiseach about his failure to pay student nurses and the use of temporary agency contracts for contract tracers and medical scientists carrying out testing, he baulked when I suggested that the Government is trying to fight Covid on the cheap. I should rephrase it and state that the Government is trying to fight Covid on the basis of cheap labour and utter gross...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This, by the way, reflects the experience of another group of similar contact tracers I mentioned a while ago who were on those zero-hour contacts-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for whom it took eight weeks before they got paid a cent by CPL. This is an outrage. What is the Taoiseach going to do about it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council. [35167/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The conditions for Palestinians under Israeli occupation are horrendous at any time but the fact that last Tuesday week Israel carried out, in the midst of a pandemic, the biggest demolition of homes of Palestinian families, 11 in number, making 80 people homeless including 41 children, is truly shocking. The pictures show the demolitions destroying water containers, farm equipment, solar...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to get the money back.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [33231/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 20 October, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of student nurses and the fact that they are working during a pandemic where they cannot do other jobs for the most part, certainly in other healthcare settings, and are working long hours on the front line of the Covid-19 effort and not being paid. That is scandalous. In that engagement the Taoiseach, who obviously was not scripted on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should do it again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should read the accounts of student nurses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Communications (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had recent communications with the US ambassador to Ireland; and if so, if he will report on those communications. [35168/20]