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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Tests (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 860. To ask the Minister for Health if patients are tested for Covid-19 on their release from hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4388/21]

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we had a little bit longer for the small groups, we might have time. A modern day plague or infestation has struck most of Dublin and perhaps other parts of the country. The infestation is particularly acute in south Dublin. It is not locusts but property developers and property speculators, who are drawn like bees around a honey pot or perhaps flies around a less pleasant substance,...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, we are sharing time.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the significant delays experienced by allied healthcare professionals in receiving their CORU registration; his plans to speed up the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4603/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit was not a latecomer to calling for mandatory quarantine or for a zero Covid strategy. We have been calling for this for months. Yesterday we saw that Ireland paid a very bitter price with 101 fatalities, a record number, for the Taoiseach's failure to embrace a coherent zero Covid strategy and to impose mandatory quarantine. I now will address another chronic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even at this late stage, on the 300th day of this dispute, will the Taoiseach do right by the Debenhams workers and the Arcadia workers?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, my only interest is to see 1,000 Debenhams workers, who have gone through an extraordinary struggle and have been treated despicably, get the justice and fair redundancy they deserve. It is similar for the Arcadia Group's workers, another group of workers faced with the same situation because of the failure of this and successive Governments to address this abuse. I put to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people bailed it out.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Labour Court-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Labour Court.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Ceann Comhairle knows, for the last number of weeks we have expressed our opposition to the failure of the Government at the Business Committee to honour a commitment it made to ensure the Covid emergency and the response to it are a standing issue on a severely curtailed Dáil agenda. The Government has refused to honour that commitment, which I understood had been agreed at the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not agreed. Thursday would have been the logical day, as I see it, to have the promised debate on the Covid-19 response and the public health crisis. It is deeply ironic that the Taoiseach should cite as justification for not having that debate the non-essential travel and work requirements. It is precisely the Government's failure to police non-essential travel and non-essential...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked for that debate.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, announced the welcome decision - one for which People Before Profit has been campaigning for quite some time - to cease issuing new gas and oil exploration licences. Of course, it then emerges that the gas and oil companies are welcoming this because all the existing licences as well as ones such as...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can cancel them.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want it to be effective.

Finance Act 2004 (section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2020: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a technical motion on one level, but it is, nonetheless, an opportunity to highlight some important issues. We are talking about underspending of €709 million in many areas of capital spending, which is an indication of how significant the impact of Covid-19 has been. We must also add to that figure the roughly €20 billion in additional spending which is also related...

Reappointment of the Ombudsman for Children: Motion (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy to support the reappointment of Dr. Niall Muldoon and I commend him on his work. Precisely because of the nature of his work and the very good job he and his team have done in reporting our failure to vindicate fully the rights of children and young people under 18, I am sure that he would want us to take this opportunity to highlight some of the issues that his reports have...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance if assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied) in relation to the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5383/21]