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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Contracts (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 557. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if background checks are carried out on contractors and consultants in relation to the school remediation works currently being conducted by companies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21496/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Fire Safety (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 558. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the frequency with which school fire hydrants are tested; the steps taken to repair them if found to be non-operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21497/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 845. To ask the Minister for Health if a person travelling to a country on the quarantine list for surgery can obtain an exemption from mandatory quarantine; if so, the way they apply for same; if their carer can apply for an exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21143/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1016. To ask the Minister for Health if he will order a general review of the use and overuse of psychiatric medication in children across all CAMHS and primary care health services and in particular to review the way a lack of resources for alternative approaches is driving the overuse of medication given the concern in relation to the rapid rise in the use of psychiatric drugs in children...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (28 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1068. To ask the Minister for Health if all senior citizens are entitled to referral to primary care centres to access, for example, physiotherapy regardless of whether they have a medical card or not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22117/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister for his contribution. There was relief last week when he talked about no cliff-edge for Covid-related income supports but in recent days that relief quite quickly gave way, certainly on my part and I suspect on the part of many people out there, to deep concern at suggestions that the PUP payment might be cut in the near future for sectors where there are still large...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will slightly press the Minister on that issue. The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, will bring a memorandum to Cabinet today. I am not sure what is in the memorandum, but it certainly raised alarm bells. It would be very helpful for the Minister for Finance to give reassurances to people, particularly those in sectors where there is likely to be quite a long-term impact...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Doherty and I have asked questions about the PUP. I am still getting slightly conflicting signals from the Minister and would like to get a bit of clarity on the PUP. Some sectors will, of course, recover, As public health restrictions are lifted, people will be able to go back to work and they will not be on the PUP, so the Minister will not need to maintain it for them. In...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I assume the Chairman is not going to allow me to respond but if the Chairman gives me time to answer the Minister's question, I am happy to do so.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not think the Minister quite explained why some people are excluded. On the point about zero Covid, we would not be in such a precarious situation having to decide between high circulation levels of the virus and reopening after a long period of lockdown if the Government had introduced a zero Covid approach at the appropriate time and not made the mistakes it made in December and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Draft Stability Programme Update: Engagement with Minister for Finance (27 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was my answer.

Covid Restrictions Support Scheme Regulations and Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme Regulations: Motions (22 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the very outset of this pandemic I have been arguing for specific supports for those sectors disproportionately hit or indeed just closed down by the impact of the pandemic. I reiterate those calls because while some of the supports the Government has bought in have been very good and have kept businesses alive and wages going into people’s pockets, certain groups have not seen...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the same issue, will this rounded approach to housing extend to trying to do something to stop people from being unjustly evicted? Our treatment of the homeless reached a new low this week where the homeless, in homeless accommodation, are now being evicted. At the Travelodge in Ballymun, families, including a woman with a tumour, and people with kids in school in Ballymun, were told on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (22 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the stay and spend relief is only applicable from October 2020 to April 2021 and not from July 2020 as was previously indicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21042/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are going to overcome sectarianism and division and move forward to a united Ireland, which certainly is something I would like to see, we have to be an example in terms of what unification would give to people. I have talked a lot about the importance of having an all-Ireland national health service. Something else that is critical and can help us to unite people is taking a lead on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop the evictions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the priorities of the shared island unit of his Department. [17201/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the sickest aspects of our economy is the fact that property speculators and vulture funds can make money and profit from putting people who have done nothing wrong on the street. The Taoiseach and his Government continue to facilitate that, despite desperate pleas from myself and others about their failure to close loopholes in the Residential Tenancies Act 2020 that allow this to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [20474/21]

Mental Health Surge Capacity: Motion [Private Members] (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Ward for raising this important motion and addressing this important issue. Many have cited the enormous need, mostly unmet, for mental health services and the unacceptable circumstances in which thousands of people are waiting for assessments of need much longer than the three months within which they are supposed to be assessed by right and the three months thereafter,...