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Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Without a shadow of a doubt, the most high-profile redundancy that took place during the Covid-19 period, to which this Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill is a response, was the Debenhams redundancy. Why does this Bill not involve trying to do something to compensate the Debenhams workers for the failure and inadequacy of legislation to protect against the sort of strategic liquidation...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am because it is a redundancy payments Bill. It relates to Covid redundancies. The Debenhams redundancy was a Covid redundancy, where people lost their jobs in the middle of the emergency. The workers lost everything. They did not get any of their entitlements. I am asking whether this Bill addresses that. That is the question. Does the Bill address it? If not, why not? I think the...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the day that is in it, it might be worth paraphrasing Stephen Dedalus in James Joyce's Ulysses when he famously said, "History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake." Covid-19 was certainly a nightmare from which we are all trying to awake. One of the great things about Ulysses, of which I am a big fan, is that Joyce takes as his characters the ordinary people, whereas in all...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was next.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Making a united Ireland.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Think about a united Ireland.

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Departmental Meetings (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There have been many requests, including those I have made, that the Taoiseach's Department take responsibility for an area that crosses many departmental demarcations as a result of which there is no proper integrated and cohesive approach, namely, disability. The Taoiseach has to look at this again. I will give him a simple example. I have raised ACTS with him a few times, the...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach referred earlier to the pension age in the North being increased to 66, which is certainly not a good thing. I would suggest that hiding behind that fact is not an excuse for not returning the pension age to 65. This is a point I have often made to the Taoiseach. Surely if we want to encourage people to be part of a united Ireland, we need to make being part of a united...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met. [4700/22]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: First Stage: Cabinet Committees (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The north Kerry child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, scandal brought to light a much longer-term scandal of the over-medication of young people compensating for the chronic lack of staffing and resources in our mental health services. I want to ask particularly about the utter lack of community psychology and primary care psychology. One aspect of this, and I have been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Friday, in the District Court beside the Four Courts, five households - families and individuals - will taste the very bitter fruits of this Government's failure to protect tenants from ruthless vulture funds and against no-fault evictions and to offer them alternatives when they are faced with homelessness, either in terms of social housing or private rental accommodation that they...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of the tenants, I invite the Taoiseach, members of Sinn Féin, the Social Democrats, the Labour Party and anyone else who can to get down to the courts to support those tenants. There will be a solidarity rally on Friday. None of the things the Taoiseach has just mentioned would protect these tenants. The tenancies of indefinite duration still allow a vulture fund to evict...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is poor comfort for decent tenants being evicted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is poor comfort.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Constitution includes the common good.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I try to avoid masochism myself.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputies Ward and Daly for their timely and good motion to address the scandal that arose from, but is in no way limited to, what happened in CAMHS in Kerry. As Deputy Gino Kenny said, we have tabled an amendment that does not take anything from the motion but adds a few additional refinements. Specifically, it sets out that the review of CAMHS has to be independent, as Deputy Kenny...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The leaving certificate should be scrapped. It was never a fair exam. It always discriminated against those with special needs and those from disadvantaged areas and all of that has been compounded and made worse in the teeth of a pandemic. Will the Government take the bold step now, which could get us out of this mess, and say that everybody should be able to study the higher or further...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Court on Friday.