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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) is entitled to the SUSI special grant rate as they have been previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38340/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 776. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are moving house or are in the process of finding and or viewing new accommodation are permitted to travel beyond the 5 km under current level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37823/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not expecting to be called, but it is fine.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The issue of online content moderators needs to be addressed as a matter of urgency. It might be of interest for the Taoiseach to know - and I will ask him a little more about this later - that in the United States, online content moderators did not go into work at all between March and October because of Government restrictions there. Here, they have been working in large workplaces for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of Bills under preparation in his Department. [38633/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Seeing as how, as the Taoiseach suggested in a previous answer, the Government is not busy with any particular legislation at the moment, and given that he is responsible for co-ordinating the response to Covid, may I suggest something for his Department to do? There are many aspects to this, but one that is staring us in the face, is growing more evident every day and will be the key to any...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his telephone call with the President-elect of the United States of America. [38634/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I congratulate the American people on sacking Donald Trump. It is very gratifying to see his increasingly desperate and farcical attempts to deny reality. It reminds me a little bit of Chemical Ali trying to claim that Saddam Hussein was still in charge when the walls were shaking around him. It is amusing but people hope it will bring real change, not least given the absolutely disastrous...

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is thanks to large orders that have come in from the United States.

Ceisteanna - Questions: US Presidential Election (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just wanted to hear the end of the answer to my question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps I can kill two birds with one stone by getting an answer to my previous question. In the context of the shared island initiative, a shared vaccine programme would be an immediate way of giving us common cause, North and South, to deal with the pandemic and get us out of the cycle of lockdowns. The Taoiseach should take that idea very seriously. As I said earlier - I would like to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Companies could also share the technology.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has spent well over a week trying to shield the Minister for Justice from questioning over the process of selection of Mr. Justice Séamus Woulfe to the Supreme Court. As a result of the collective insistence of the Opposition that the Minister come into the House to face questions and be accountable to the Dáil, the Government was forced to put forward a proposal....

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is seriously disingenuous.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will be asking questions in the first ten minutes.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for the pandemic unemployment payment that did not receive payment in the week beginning 16 November 2020; the reason for this non-payment; if applicants will be assured that this will not happen again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38947/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (25 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for the pandemic unemployment payment that are due arrears as a result of the heavy workload in her Department; when they can expect to receive these payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38948/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to reports that a company (details supplied) that generated €153 million in profits over a seven-month period turned those profits, through complex accounting procedures, into a loss and paid no tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39491/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was reported in the past week or two, and perhaps earlier, that a company set up by Goldman Sachs - it is a crowd called Tramore Funding DAC, a special purpose vehicle that is just two years old and is due to disappear shortly - and which had purchased loan portfolios off banks generated €153 million in tax-free profits from its backers but, through "complex accounting procedures",...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Avoidance (26 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The securitisation of loans helped to crash the entire global economy in 2008. The Minister would have to do a fair bit of convincing to persuade me or most people that it is not a very hazardous practice. It is absolutely unacceptable that outfits like Goldman Sachs can purchase these loan portfolios and set up designated activity companies, DACs, in this case Tramore Funding DAC, that can...