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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 485. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the Work Safely Protocol issued 20 November 2020 are implemented with particular reference to the contents of section D3 (details supplied) in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42604/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued 20 November 2020 are implemented, with particular reference to the contents of section D3 (details supplied), in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42606/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Staff (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 614. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new post of paediatric rheumatologist additional to the two posts currently in Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin initially to have been in place by end of 2019; if the application process for this new post is still open; if applications have been closed; the date or deadline by which this post will be filled; the hospital the new...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 615. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the waiting list for an MRI in Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin; the expected time spent on the waiting list; the projected time it will take to clear the backlog for MRIs in Crumlin for children; if his Department and the HSE are examining the use of the MRI and paediatric unit in a hospital (details supplied) as a viable...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 616. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently waiting on an MRI for both diagnosis of and-or monitoring of disease in all CHOs and hospitals nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41363/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 879. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it will be ensured that all the requirements of the work safely protocol issued 20 November 2020 are implemented with particular reference to the content of section D3 (details supplied) in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42607/20]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council for their contributions, which I always enjoy and learn from, and I welcome them to the committee. I know that they are reluctant to comment on particular policy proposals but in their report, they are willing to go as far as using the word "appropriate" when it comes to, for example, the decision of the Government to borrow to...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Barnes for that because I want us to legitimise the debate about wealth taxes, which has generally been considered to be off the radar to date. It is interesting that countries such as Argentina and others are now beginning to introduce these taxes on the back of the Covid-19 crisis. I will press Mr. Barnes further on the question of wealth taxes, although I acknowledge there...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will press Dr. Lawless on that. I take her point. The wealth tax that we in People Before Profit have designed and proposed in our budget submissions excludes the family home but is there not a fairly simple calculation to be done? We have approximately 1.8 million or 1.9 million family homes in the country. We can work out roughly what they are worth on average. If we multiply one by...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My time is nearly up, so I might ask a couple of quick questions. A lesson we have learned from Covid is that, if we scrimp on health spending, particularly on capacity, staffing and so on, it can have more dire economic consequences in a health emergency. To a significant extent, our requirement to close down large sections of the economy was linked to the low level of capacity within our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last Wednesday, the Taoiseach and his Government insulted the student nurses and midwives of this country by voting down the Solidarity-People Before Profit motion, which was drawn up in conjunction with those student nurses and midwives, calling for them to be paid. The Taoiseach has since insulted them by suggesting that they are not doing real work and that he is protecting their...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, I have to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One student said: "My name is Conor. I am a first-year nursing student. In the last week I have had to wash, feed, lift and dress Covid-positive patients unsupervised." Another, Michelle, said: I finished my final six weeks' unpaid placement of fourth year. I was doing between 70 to 80 hours per week for six weeks, sometimes finishing placement at 8.00 p.m. and going directly into a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nonsense. Absolute nonsense.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Government's health service.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not think it is okay.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have invited the Taoiseach to meet the people involved.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach want to meet them?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are any of these press advisers the people who researched a speech of mine from back in 2016 to inform the Taoiseach's earlier attempts at deflection over the student nurses and midwives? Would their time not have been better spent overnight, instead of looking at a speech of mine about FEMPI in 2016, looking at the hundreds of testimonies from student nurses and midwives about their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has not checked out the situation of the student nurses.