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Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Duncan Smith and his colleagues for this important motion. This debate is about whether we have safe and adequate staffing levels in our hospitals and health services, and whether the pay and numbers strategy is an embargo by another name to prevent the recruitment necessary to reach the safe and adequate staffing levels required to ensure patient safety and provide treatment...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his visit to the United States and his meeting with President Biden. [41379/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (23 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware of the hardship caused to staff on career break in her Department by the practice of extending career breaks beyond five and six years, while there are appropriate vacancies unfilled; if she considers that it is fair to the staff to impose considerable hardship on them unnecessarily; if she realises that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: War bonds.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At what point does the Taoiseach think Israel's crimes against the Palestinians reach the threshold of horror and unacceptability that mean it deserves the same sort of sanctions as apartheid South Africa? I ask that because the crimes it has committed are way in excess of even that horrific regime. Long before the genocide of last year, many South African representatives, going right back...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [36721/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [41381/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [43249/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: St. Augustine’s in Blackrock is a school for children with additional needs. It caters for children with those needs from as far north of the city as Santry, the many places in between, Wicklow, the Dún Laoghaire area, which is my area, and other areas of south Dublin. The school is still without two buses to take those children to St. Augustine's, those being the one that comes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The well-being of many, if not most, of our students is not in a good place. The email that Holly, the student nurse from Athlone, sent to all of us is emblematic of the crisis facing many students. She talks about something on which we put a motion forward during Covid, that is, the failure to pay student nurses on placement. You can add to that those in mental health nursing, early...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When we are suffering chronic shortages in so many areas of healthcare, construction and other areas of the economy, why are we not giving these students the support and valuing them in the way they deserve, in the way, for example, they do with student nurses in Scotland and everywhere else in Europe where they do far better for students?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the publication of Understanding Life in Ireland: The Well-Being Framework 2024. [41380/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have repeatedly raised the recruitment embargo by another name that the Government has imposed on the health service, the so-called pay and numbers strategy, which is limiting the ability of hospitals and health services to recruit the staff they need to ensure safe staffing and proper patient safety in the hospitals. The Taoiseach is aware health workers are balloting for industrial...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The hospital remains exactly as it was when the workers first raised this issue - chronically understaffed and not safe for patients.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach look into it or explain?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if it is not staffed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Another day, another Israeli massacre in Gaza. Since dawn, another 45 innocents have been slaughtered by this terrorist regime. Almost certainly, the weapons that killed those people came from the United States and possibly travelled through Irish airspace. The US military, which supports all this, is also using our airports. Will the Government give us the debate we asked for about the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement a review of how the HMD form is working across councils to ascertain whether it places too heavy a load on disabled and ill people (the very people it is supposed to help); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42962/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the affordable housing scheme to ensure that these houses are actually affordable, regardless of location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42963/24]