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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.

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]