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- Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is sinister to keep files on vulnerable children and their families while the State tools itself up to protect against legal action by the families who are simply trying to assert their legal right and entitlement to equality. That is what we are talking about. It is their right to equality under the law to get the assessments, services, supports and so on to which they are entitled....
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just told the Ceann Comhairle that we do not.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we get a response from the Chief Whip on the request for additional time given that there is now extra time?
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why can we not have a little longer for the secret-files issue to give some of us who have a pathetic amount of time an opportunity to ask proper questions?
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not putting up with that crap. The Minister of State has sabotaged-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed to.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I point out that the reason we have to change the order today is due to events last night when speakers did not show up and the debate on the Public Service Pay Bill fell, even though many of the groupings in the House did not get to speak once on that very important legislation. That is a disgrace. I commend Deputy Duncan Smith from the Labour Party on making apologies for Deputy Nash not...
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad the Ceann Comhairle mentioned that. Our Whip team, and we do not accept the Whip's allowance, by the way-----
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We were doing the job.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I will explain.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: First, there were nine ten-minute slots between the slot of the final Deputy to speak last night and our slot. There was, therefore, no reasonable expectation that we would speak before today but for the fact that multiple speakers in the intervening slots, including Government speakers, were not here. Our office and Whip team were monitoring what was going on in here but unlike in...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Next Friday, it will be precisely 365 days since almost 2,000 Debenhams workers received the shocking news, via email from the company, that they were being dumped after decades of loyal service. Those workers were soon to discover that despite having a collective agreement for two plus two weeks of redundancy per year of service, they would get nothing from this company that continues to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not patronise the Debenhams workers by suggesting that they do not know precisely how they have been treated and what the facts of their dispute are. Is it not funny, as the shop stewards from Debenhams and Arcadia asked me before I came here, how the law and the system always favours the big corporations over, as the workers describe themselves, "the little people"? KPMG, a...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a list will be provided of approved travel agencies for all public servant trips that are booked abroad; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17739/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Apr 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 327. To ask the Minister for Health when the €100 weekly payment to student nurses will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17774/21]
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The People's Vaccine campaign, which is supported by 80 countries, many NGOs, the UN Aids programme, Oxfam and others, published a survey of epidemiologists, immunologists and infectious disease specialists in 28 different countries, 88% of whom predict that within nine to 12 months, variants of Covid-19 will have evaded the first generation of vaccines. That is a very stark warning. In...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it next plans to meet. [15560/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Covid-19 has further underlined the need for proper mental health services. We have thousands of adults and children waiting for assessments and services. I spent an hour on the phone last night to a young student studying to be a psychologist. She told me a tale of woe about the plight of people studying to be psychologists and trying to get on doctorate training programmes to be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just read the NPHET letter. It correctly states we are in a very fragile and precarious position, as a result, in my opinion, of the Government refusing to impose the mandatory quarantine that NPHET asked to be introduced. The Government still refuses to do it for a majority of countries. Whereas the vast majority of people adhered to public health guidelines, enduring immense...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (31 Mar 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The scheme costs very little.