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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not enough.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach stated that NESC was looking into the issues of poverty and inequality. I put it to him that almost everything has changed since some of those reports were done. There needs to be a sort of an emergency response, again, to the shocking levels of poverty that are now becoming apparent. The Barnardos report published today is really shocking. The number of people accessing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [3406/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government [3405/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As was discussed earlier, far-right elements utterly without justification are trying to target vulnerable immigrants and migrants for the housing crisis. That is why, on 18 February, we need to get out on the Ireland for All demonstration which has been widely backed by trade union and community groups, anti-poverty groups, housing groups and many others. Simultaneously, we need emergency...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You learn something new every day and I learned something today from a meeting with representatives of housekeeping attendants or domestic attendants in hospitals. They represented people who previously might have been categorised as cleaners in hospitals and they came from University Hospital Limerick, Cork University Hospital and Letterkenny hospital. What I learned was very interesting....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and on PPE, infection control and a whole range of things. It has become a seriously skilled job, particularly after Covid-19 and especially concerning the whole question of infection control. If we do not have people cleaning places properly and who know how to do it in a professional way, then we will not have safe hospitals. These people had an evaluation done of their jobs. Other...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Gender Equality (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The application of this group of cleaners to have their job recategorised was not accepted and they have not seen the evaluation report. I know the Taoiseach will not know the answer to this question but I ask him to look into it on behalf of these workers. The point is the vast majority of them are women.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the approximately 60 private households in a location (details supplied) can avail of the electricity grant when their landlord is on a commercial account; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5819/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 344. To ask the Minister for Health if publicly funded fertility care, as outlined in the programme for Government, will include treatment options for single women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5616/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 368. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the assessment of needs for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5695/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 436. To ask the Minister for Health the services in place for medical card holders and GPs with GMS lists who are seeking to provide vasectomies; if appropriate training is in place for GPs wishing to provide such a service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5964/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 495. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he can explain the reason a Coillte-owned company (details supplied) based in Clonmel is charging all its Irish MDF customers more expensive prices for its products compared to its customers in England. [6000/23]

Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome President Metsola to Dublin and Ireland. I welcome her commitment to supporting continued peace on this island and to preventing any return to a hard border in this country. I also welcome her comments about the need to address the cost-of-living and housing crises that are gripping Europe and significantly impacting this country. I have to say, however, that it is long past time...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All those pensioners were taxpayers too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was €64 billion for the banks but not for the pensioners.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Tánaiste explain to the public why successive Fianna Fáil- and Fine Gael-led Governments, including many he was a part of, have pursued a systematic strategy over many years of denying rights and entitlements to vulnerable people and to people who have been wronged by the State, often pursuing a very hostile, cynical legal strategy to deny people their rights? Vulnerable...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2001. By the way the report also found, and this is important, that people who had gone to private nursing homes were, in fact, entitled to public nursing home care but none were available to them and they were forced into the private system. The Tánaiste is still saying these people were not entitled to this care when that report made it clear that they were. Another report in 2003...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Tánaiste read this report in 2001? It made very clear that successive Governments, including the one he was part of, knew that the basis on which these charges were being levied had no legal basis. He has gone on to repeat what the Taoiseach said earlier this week about the State still not conceding that people who were in private nursing homes but had medical cards had the...

Seanad: Address by H.E. Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament (2 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome President Metsola to Dublin and Ireland. I welcome her commitment to supporting continued peace on this island and to preventing any return to a hard border in this country. I also welcome her comments about the need to address the cost-of-living and housing crises that are gripping Europe and significantly impacting this country. I have to say, however, that it is long past time...