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Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In particular when the Government is not giving clear answers. What is consistent in our approach to this is that when we were campaigning for elimination as a strategy, prior to there being mass vaccination, the whole point was to reduce the likelihood of long protracted periods of very harsh restrictions and rolling lockdowns that went on for long periods precisely because we saw it as a...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will do so clearly. I do not believe in giving wide-ranging powers to the Minister without accountability to this House unless he can give us and the wider public an evidence-based argument that is convincing about what exactly the purpose of all of this is and how it is part of an integrated strategy to cope with Covid-19. That is distinctly lacking. What we end up with then is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not just schools.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [60207/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remain baffled as to the hesitation, reluctance and inaction that the Taoiseach is demonstrating when it comes to the issue of ventilation, air quality and air filtration. He said earlier today that he would do anything to protect life and limb, yet we know that providing minimum standards in terms of air quality and systems that can purify the air could potentially have a dramatic effect...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department [60203/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People looking to get appointments with the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, on immigration matters are unable to get any. I am inundated with complaints about this matter. I submitted parliamentary questions on it, through which I was informed that the INIS was registering 1,000 customers per week, implying that there was no problem, but I have had repeated confirmations...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. It is a serious and widespread problem. I see that other Deputies are nodding their heads. This issue needs to be addressed. We are not getting the truth of the matter when we submit questions to the INIS and the Department of Justice. Will the Taoiseach address this matter? I do not know whether he can tell us anything now but I urge him to address it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Brexit Issues (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to follow up on the question Deputy Connolly asked earlier. As the Taoiseach knows, Deputy Connolly and I are very strongly in favour of the vaccination programme. We think people should get their boosters and we agree about the injunction to protect life and limb. However, there are human rights considerations for the small number of people who cannot be vaccinated for health...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Huge numbers of musicians, performers, entertainers and taxi drivers who, as a result of the dramatic reduction in people going out and the new measures on numbers and percentages in theatres and venues which impact on the night-time economy, are applying for the much-trumpeted restoration of the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, and are receiving letters denying them it because they had...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People are taking massive hits on their income and they are being denied access to the PUP. What is the Taoiseach going to do for these groups of people who have been bit by measures the Government has taken?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why then are people being denied it?

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group, including Deputy Naughten, for tabling this important motion on the critical subject of the development of our offshore wind energy resources. There is no doubt but that we need to develop our renewable energy resources quickly. A key part of that will be the development of our offshore wind capacity. Particularly given our huge maritime area and geographical...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Taoiseach and the UK Prime Minister discuss the issue of trade union and workers' rights in both Britain and the North? In the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher took a hatchet to workers and the trade union movement and brought in very draconian anti-worker and anti-trade union legislation to tie the hands of workers and limit their ability to take effective action to defend their rights....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent exchange with the UK Prime Minister. [60202/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Both the US and the EU have urged the generals in Sudan to continue on the path to democracy, particularly in the face of the recent coup by General al-Barhan and Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo, a former leader of the Janjaweed who committed atrocities in Darfur. They have released some of the Government Ministers that they imprisoned but there has been a very significant crackdown on civil society,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What are we going to do about it though?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on recent discussions with the President of the United States. [60201/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [58592/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As mentioned earlier, a social housing development which was going to deliver 34 social houses and eight affordable-to-buy houses in a project between an approved housing body and a local co-operative, facilitated by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, has collapsed because the preferred tenderer has pulled out, citing hyperinflation in the construction sector. These are badly needed...