Results 481-500 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I did say that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The healthcare workers are great.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, and we could not come up with a response to that in a year
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why people are driven into the private health insurance market. People make money out of it but it perpetuates an unfair two-tier system and perpetuates the problems in the public health system.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Out of deference to your good self, a Cheann Comhairle, I will do that.
- Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: "Laya profits soar to €36.55 million". That was a headline in the newspapers earlier this year. Its profits were up by €14 million. For AXA, I do not have the figure for its profits, but it had €2 billion coming in from premiums. It has 30% of the Irish market, while Laya has 28%, and I think AXA is now underwriting Laya premiums. This is big business and big...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier I made the point to the Taoiseach that I think games or deceptions are being played with regard to what is happening to recruit the staff we need in various areas of the health service. The Taoiseach did not like it when I spoke about deception. This question is about children. I want to refer the Taoiseach to the figures, which are the HSE's figures and not mine. If we ask...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [43248/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the 2024 climate action plan progress report published by his Department on 3 September 2024. [42882/24]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A new international team of researchers has just established that 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded and critically that land-based carbon absorption has collapsed completely, going way beyond the worst case scenarios of previous research. Forests, lakes, soils and so on that are supposed to be absorbing carbon are not doing it anymore, such is the level of deforestation, the poor...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach discuss with Donald Tusk the fact the European Union's credibility is in absolute shreds because of the blatant double standards that are being displayed between its attitude toward legitimate resistance by the Ukrainian people against the brutal Russian invasion and the wholly different attitude to Palestinian people resisting a brutal, genocidal assault on Gaza and decades...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe the Government is deceiving the public about what is actually happening in the health service. While it claims it is trying to recruit people to the health service to fill the staff shortages to address the ever-growing waiting lists, which have now reached nearly 1 million people in various hospitals, or the 10,000 children waiting for assessments of need, the 110,000 children...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It absolutely is. I was talking to radiation therapists who will be in here later today. They say that despite capital investment in, for example, linear accelerators and scanners in Cork, Galway and St. Luke's, the machines are sitting idle because they do not have enough staff, and that if people leave, there is no guarantee at all that they will be replaced and there is no effort to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe the health workers. I do not believe the Government. The workers are saying that they are stressed and overworked, that staffing levels are not safe, that patient safety is being endangered and that they are utterly demoralised. The Taoiseach should tell the truth about what is happening in the health service and scrap the pay and numbers strategy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are getting nearer to the truth now.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have my facts from the HSE.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course the numbers are growing. Our population is growing and the need is growing. Baffling people with figures that are out of context does not tell the real truth. Waiting lists are not falling, according to the hospital consultants the Taoiseach mentioned. They are saying they are going to increase by 11% this year, so we will have 746,000 people waiting for outpatient appointments...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I got the figures from the Government. I got them from the Taoiseach's Minister for Health.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach called it that.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is understaffed.