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Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As has been said, it is going to be many months before we can get the population vaccinated. Until then, and perhaps beyond, the front line against Covid-19 remains in our hospitals. I want to respond to the systematic misrepresentations on the Taoiseach's part of the issue concerning student nurses and midwives, arising from a motion which we tabled several weeks ago. Let us be clear what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach used the word "balance".

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What of the student nurses?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been pretty much happening for years.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will establish a payment or bursary system for students of nursing and midwifery in the interests of encouraging more students to study nursing and midwifery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43417/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine a payment or bursary system to ensure that nursing and midwifery graduates are not graduating with high levels of debt given the high level of emigration by graduate nurses and midwives; if he will address the lower level of pay for these graduates compared to graduates of other healthcare disciplines with whom many of them...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Information (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [43545/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Vaccination Programme (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the establishment of the high-level task force on Covid-19 vaccination. [43546/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for charging fees of over €15,000 per year for graduate entry medicine courses, which means that many students who finish the course leave university with loans of up to €100,000, and in turn results in emigration and exacerbates staff shortages in medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43423/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 479. To ask the Minister for Health the different supports available to keep elderly persons in their homes for as long as possible and the way in which to access those supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42846/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 517. To ask the Minister for Health the numbers of teachers, special needs assistants and classroom assistants who have contracted Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43038/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The €3 million offer for retraining is an insult to Debenhams workers. The failure by the Government to ensure justice for these workers is appalling. I remind the Taoiseach that he said he could not put money on the table because it would set a precedent. A sum of €18 million is owed to the State by Debenhams. The Taoiseach did not mind setting a precedent when it came to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just sick of it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was for the banks-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has had 250 days.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [43542/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past three years, I have repeatedly raised the plight of tenants in the St. Helen's Court apartment complex in Dún Laoghaire. They have faced four attempts by two different vulture funds that bought the complex to evict them using loopholes in the Residential Tenancies Acts. They tried to increase the rent by 60% at one point, they then used substantial refurbishments as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [43543/20]