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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 859. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a person (details supplied) who is waiting for a MRI scan to determine the efficacy of their treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4387/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Covid-19 Tests (27 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 860. To ask the Minister for Health if patients are tested for Covid-19 on their release from hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4388/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (21 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the most relevant and current position of the Government and his Department on statutory redundancy during this and additionally all ongoing Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3112/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct the banks to extend loan and mortgage breaks in repayments and to offer further breaks to those whose work has been dramatically affected by Covid-19 measures, given that there are many more whose incomes have been decimated by Covid-19 restrictive measures by Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3120/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Medmark is adjudicating for special needs assistants, SNAs, and special education needs, SEN, teachers in the same manner as mainstream class teachers, given that they cannot social distance from their students unlike their mainstream class colleagues; if a list will be provided of the conditions that put SNAs and SEN and class teachers in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNAs, SEN teachers and-or teachers in special schools, units and mainstream primary and secondary schools are all classified as essential workers; the vaccination allocation group which applies to each group of workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3086/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the 40% cut to funding for PPE for schools that was communicated to schools in the past month has been or will be reversed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3087/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if SNAs who are to return to work if the phased return to school for children with additional needs proceeds on 21 January 2021, or on another date, but who cannot secure childcare for their own children and families could lose their positions or be at risk of losing their jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (21 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which children with additional needs who are in mainstream classes and set to return to school on 21 January 2021, or later, will be educated; if SEN teachers, SNAs or mainstream class teachers will be responsible for the in-school education of the children in cases where a school community’s SEN team of teachers and SNAs is...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (21 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 265. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes suggests, and if he will consider, the inclusion of all women and survivors of all mother and baby homes in the country when awarding redress; if it will be limited to specified mother and baby homes or certain cohorts of women and...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As somebody who is a political activist, but also somebody who was adopted and born in a mother and baby home, I have very mixed feelings about this debate and report. I suspect that is true of many survivors and those who went through mother and baby homes. In my case, my outcome was relatively benign in that I was adopted by a wonderful family and I was lucky enough eventually to be...

EU-UK Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Motion (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. For British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Tory right, Brexit was always about a reckless drive to accelerate the race to the bottom, undermine standards in worker rights or the environment, for example, and, no doubt, to further enhance the role of the City of London as a centre for financial speculation and emulate this country in trying to...

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Barry. Last week the victims of the mother and baby home scandal were insulted. The insult centred on the Government's refusal to value the direct testimony of those victims and instead to follow an official narrative from institutions. This week we have the same pattern of insulting the student nurses and midwives, refusing to listen to their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the proposed affordable housing scheme including but not limited to criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 365. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if childcare services have been requested to remain closed beyond 31 January 2021, if providers will be requested to continue the suspension of fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2354/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 369. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions a provider of childcare services should take when it has one non-ECCE child, which means, under the rules, it must remain open in cases in which the provider is also a parent of a school-aged child who requires supervision; if the premises is allowed to close to allow the provider to provide care to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 462. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the roll-out of the vaccine to the staff in the Ireland East Hospital Group; the order in which the hospitals will be scheduled; the order in which the staff will be vaccinated by staff, discipline and dates for each hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2238/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 463. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the scheduled roll-out of the vaccine to the staff in St. Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire in the week ending 8 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2239/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 464. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the use of a company (details supplied) in the roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine; the details of the tendering process for the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2240/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 498. To ask the Minister for Health if port workers who are considered front-line workers should receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the initial phases of the roll-out to ensure that ports remain operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2365/21]