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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (4 Jul 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 624. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are being implemented to rectify the situation where nursing homes prior to the fair deal scheme were mischarging residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32390/23]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In addition, there are issues relating to the copyright directive and the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act is not being complied with. We need to address that culture.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In my view, the stakes are very high in the RTÉ secret payments scandal, and the impact it has on public service broadcasting. I do not want to live in a world where the only sources of news and broadcasting are Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Mark Zuckerberg and big for-profit corporations. At least public service broadcasting is supposed to be not-for-profit and serving the public...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will you stop?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not mention any names.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In my view, a plot was hatched to conceal these secret payments from the public, from the Oireachtas and from the workers of RTÉ, to launder that payment through Renault, and to mislabel that payment as a consultancy when it was clearly not a consultancy. It was a payment to an individual, which a group of people or individuals wished to conceal from the public. The public was always...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This suggests the Government and this House have to be responsible for a massive culture shift to end that sort of obnoxious inequality-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and to restore the credibility of public service broadcasting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not. The Ceann Comhairle clearly misheard me.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I have my time now?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, we were told there was significant pushback from that individual on the 15% pay cut. That is what we were told in the committee. Okay? The problem is that there were also secret payments made, and they were - I do not think there is any other way to describe it - laundered through Renault and then mislabelled as consultancy fees when they clearly were not. If we take what we...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not studied the whole report yet, but it is very useful and helpful in trying to quantify the impact of expenditure allocations and targets. Until we had this document, we did not really know what the outcomes were. It is extremely helpful in assessing whether targets set and moneys allocated are actually delivering what they were intended to deliver. It is extremely useful and...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The relevant Department decides what the officials get to put in this report.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that give Departments the opportunity to flatter to deceive, or whatever that expression is? They choose what information to give rather than what we might want to know.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Flatter.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry if I am asking dumb questions, but did the committees look at the drafts of what is to go in the report and the metrics being used in each Department?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The officials will go to private session meetings of every single committee.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If the committees look for it.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, to see how that works in practice in the past few years, how long have the reports been going on?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2022 (28 Jun 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Have committees come back to the officials and discussed with them what is in their particular section?