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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Health the reason carers are not considered healthcare workers in relation to the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12230/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of vaccines that Ireland will receive by the end of February, March, April, May and June 2021 (details supplied); the number of vaccines that will be administered by the end of each month in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12233/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he has given consideration to the ways in which a system could be created to appoint a person as a named visitor to a care home resident and in which that person could be vaccinated in order to allow visits to care homes to take place safely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12237/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their very interesting and informative contributions. I wish to ask about the debt situation. For a long period during the time of austerity, terror and fear about the debt burden was instilled into the population. It was given as the reason we needed incredibly draconian fiscal rules and all of the terrible austerity that flowed from that. We were told we could...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know how much time I have left.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the quickest hand function in the west. Dr. Doorley spoke earlier on education. We were talking about retraining and reskilling, etc. We might also throw in the clearly apparent skill shortages in a number of areas. It has become very evident that we need to train more people in various areas. Arguably, a lot more teachers are needed to reduce class sizes. There are many healthcare...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I ask a supplementary question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a question about the Land Development Agency. I do not know if R. McQuinn looked very closely at the legislation. He may have, but I will not assume it. Many people hoped the Land Development Agency would be something that would intervene to reduce the costs of building houses, particularly intervening in a market where prices have gone out of control, as Dr. McQuinn said, and are...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I thank Deputy Funchion for introducing this important Bill, which I obviously fully support. It should be acted on immediately. I am very conscious of how important this Bill is, particularly because as an adoptee, I am lucky that I did not have to wade my way through all the barriers and difficulties that many adoptees have faced in trying to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, is looking for a waiver of pre-legislative scrutiny of the residential tenancies Bill, in which he intends to extend the enhanced Covid protections for tenants in arrears, but it is not clear whether it will keep those protections for other tenants where they face eviction on grounds of sale or refurbishment. I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it not pretty embarrassing that Boris Johnson's Government has managed to do a better job of rolling out the vaccination programme than our Government? This is the Prime Minister who made an absolute hames of the initial response to the pandemic and who, to put it mildly, has shown incompetence at many levels during this crisis. However, Boris Johnson's Government is streets ahead of us...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems the European Union has performed extremely badly in securing the supplies of vaccine that we need and the contrast with Britain is stark. I wonder the extent to which this is because the European Union is deferring to the big pharmaceutical companies that are producing the vaccine because of their desire to make money and so on. I say that because, for example, the World Health...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we get a brief answer on the Chinese and Russian vaccines?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Sisters of Charity have been again implicated in really quite shameful practices, in terms of the revelations about illegal adoptions and their involvement in St. Patrick's Guild. The order has also been implicated in the mother and baby home scandal but, incredibly, this same religious order will be running the National Maternity Hospital, against a background where Archbishop Diarmuid...

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The Minister may not know it but he has People Before Profit to thank for the opportunity to debate this issue. We specifically requested it at the Business Committee. Such is our commitment to this matter, we have also tabled a motion that will give the Minister another opportunity to discuss it tomorrow. I will have more time to set out our stall in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will clarify his position in relation to LNG terminals; if he supports such gas infrastructure being included on the EU Projects of Common Interests lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13285/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 335. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a full list of the funding streams available for community sports initiatives will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12585/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 430. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the rationale behind the closure of the Passport Office; if the staff have been redeployed elsewhere; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind children in primary schools not being required to wear masks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12676/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (10 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full list of participating organisations, unions and advocacy groups that contributed to talks held to get agreement on the reopening of special schools, special classes and also the general reopening of education for children and young persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12945/21]