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Written Answers — Department of Health: Childcare Services (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 843. To ask the Minister for Health the options available for front-line workers with primary school age children in relation to childcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9729/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the options available for assessment of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9831/21]

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. Since the outbreak of the pandemic in March of last year, I have been advocating on behalf of two sectors that have been hit particularly hard - devastated - by the pandemic and pandemic measures. For the most part, they still remain excluded from the support schemes that have been set up. I requested that the Tánaiste meet with one of those...

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the tourism business continuity scheme.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will move the adjournment. I hope we can mobilise popular opinion to defeat this legislation before it gets passed. I hope we can actually force in legislation that will take the land off the speculators and vultures. That is the action we really need to take.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that. Listening to this debate, all I can say is "wow". I do not know whether to laugh or cry when I hear what Government spokespeople are saying. Of course, the Minister has left the building, like Elvis Presley, but the boys are back in town - that is all I can say. The boys are back in town, as Phil Lynott put it - Fianna Fáil and the developers. I find it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not delay or call a vote because I know people want to have Questions on Promised Legislation. However, I want to say something about the Government's refusal to compromise with the Opposition. We said at the Business Committee that all we needed was approximately an extra six hours in the week to accommodate the health debate we are looking for on the Covid-19 crisis, questions to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The slots for questions to An Taoiseach are gone.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we have been stating for weeks now, it is completely unacceptable that the Government is using the Covid crisis to shield itself from legitimate questioning and accountability on a range of pressing issues for people in this country by limiting time for debates, questions to An Taoiseach and, critically, the pandemic, thus breaking a commitment that there would be a standing debate on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a number of new heads in the Bill dealing with how it is proposed to involve private investors in public land and definitions of affordable housing, none of which has been through pre-legislative scrutiny, as is required under the legislative process.

Insurance (Restriction on Differential Pricing and Profiling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Paul Murphy and I are sharing time. I thank Deputy Doherty for this Bill and for continuing to bang the drum on trying to end the insurance rip-off. This Bill addresses one of the more obnoxious practices of the insurance industry, that of essentially punishing its most loyal customers for being loyal. It is an outrageous policy and of course it hits at the loyal customer. It...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if exceptions can be made for an essential worker who needs a motorbike for travel to and from work to complete motorbike initial basic training, IBT, given that due to the lockdown the RSA has stated IBT cannot go ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7862/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered a further extension for small public service vehicles, SPSV, given that taxi drivers will face a second year of no earnings and not using their taxis but will need to change cars post December 2021 as per the permitted extensions of age of cars; if so, the new date for vehicle renewal; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to ensure that students in exam years will not be penalised in their exam grading for loss of teaching hours and the potential drop in performance due to the stress and anxiety of living through a pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8151/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for the safe reopening of schools; the advice that the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, has given on the subject; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8152/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 444. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has examined the proposals from some schools to facilitate an alternative to the in-person supplementary programme to support the education and-or care needs of pupils with complex needs scheme in the homes of children with additional needs (details supplied); if schools will be allowed to proceed with these alternative plans...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (11 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I have one very specific question which the Minister probably will not have an answer today so I ask him to bank it and come back to me on it. The Minister will be aware of the concern expressed by the South African Government in regard to the efficacy of the AstraZeneca vaccine in terms of the variant in that country. I have been contacted by at...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to supports for businesses that began trading in 2020 but which, as a result of level 5 restrictions, are not able to show turnover for the required months to qualify for the current supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7479/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 258. To ask the Minister for Health the reason cerebral palsy it is not included in group 7 of the vaccination plan given that the condition is listed on the HSE website as a high-risk condition with regard to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7496/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 259. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for mental health and disability services in south Dublin (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7503/21]