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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can cancel them.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want it to be effective.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not agreed. Thursday would have been the logical day, as I see it, to have the promised debate on the Covid-19 response and the public health crisis. It is deeply ironic that the Taoiseach should cite as justification for not having that debate the non-essential travel and work requirements. It is precisely the Government's failure to police non-essential travel and non-essential...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked for that debate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Ceann Comhairle knows, for the last number of weeks we have expressed our opposition to the failure of the Government at the Business Committee to honour a commitment it made to ensure the Covid emergency and the response to it are a standing issue on a severely curtailed Dáil agenda. The Government has refused to honour that commitment, which I understood had been agreed at the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, my only interest is to see 1,000 Debenhams workers, who have gone through an extraordinary struggle and have been treated despicably, get the justice and fair redundancy they deserve. It is similar for the Arcadia Group's workers, another group of workers faced with the same situation because of the failure of this and successive Governments to address this abuse. I put to the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people bailed it out.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Labour Court-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Labour Court.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit was not a latecomer to calling for mandatory quarantine or for a zero Covid strategy. We have been calling for this for months. Yesterday we saw that Ireland paid a very bitter price with 101 fatalities, a record number, for the Taoiseach's failure to embrace a coherent zero Covid strategy and to impose mandatory quarantine. I now will address another chronic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Even at this late stage, on the 300th day of this dispute, will the Taoiseach do right by the Debenhams workers and the Arcadia workers?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance if assistance will be provided to a person (details supplied) in relation to the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5383/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 416. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reintroducing the mortgage interest supplement for the duration of the Covid-19 crisis to prevent persons from falling into mortgage distress. [5293/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the payment rates for all participant workers of the community schemes; if she is considering increasing the rates of pay for community scheme workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5854/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 808. To ask the Minister for Health the amount general practitioners will be offered per hour to administer the Covid-19 vaccines in mass vaccination centres; if this will be extended to groups who are qualified to administer the vaccine such as general practice nurses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5652/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 815. To ask the Minister for Health when further student nurse placements will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5671/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 857. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the practice of nursing homes charging an Alzheimer’s premium for residents with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s and that this premium is not covered in the fair deal scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5863/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 874. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish citizens are permitted to travel to the UK for family reunification purposes; if partners are considered family; if family reunification is considered essential travel; if An Garda Síochána accept that this is essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5902/21]

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, we are sharing time.