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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 531. To ask the Minister for Health the construction works that are deemed essential, given the apparent grey area between essential and non-essential construction that is being exploited on many sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2471/21]

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I will take 50%. I will comment on the leaving certificate briefly. It was discussed earlier. There is no way the Government can guarantee the leaving certificate can happen in June. At the leaders' briefing, we asked Dr. Holohan whether the restrictions would be lifted by March. He said he could not possibly tell us and that he had no idea....

Covid-19 (Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is important to say that the huge and detrimental impact Covid-19 is having on education at the moment is to do with the disastrous strategy this Government has pursued. We argued that it should listen to public health advice in advance of Christmas and that if it did not, we would be in a disastrous situation in January. Tragically, we now are. Now our young people and some of those...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consultancy Contracts (14 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance the details relating to his Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specific Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2185/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (14 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the Covid-19 vaccination programme for general practitioners nationwide (details supplied); if general practitioner representative bodies have been consulted in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1948/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single woman who went into these institutions was in effect a prisoner. It was officially sanctioned. There was criminal negligence on the part of the institutions of the church, Government, local authorities and so on at the time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There needs to be an honest owning up to that. The survivors need to be put at the absolute centre of this. Even the webinar I heard yesterday was a bit of sham in terms of the disappointment the survivors felt.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the Taoiseach will explain to us what the apology is for. Will it be a sincere apology? Will it be an apology that results in actions that give justice and redress to the survivors of the mother and baby homes?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The most important action that can be taken is to put the survivors' needs, wishes, feelings, sensitivities and objectives at the centre of this process and to date that has not happened. In fact, they were further insulted with the leak that came out at the weekend. As for being given this report only 24 hours before there is to be an apology, we do not even know what is being apologised...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach's reply to Deputy McDonald, he was keen to grab credit for Fianna Fáil for things it did in the 1930s. I hope he will be as quick today to accept responsibility for what Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the institutions of the church and the State did to tens of thousands of innocent women and children who were imprisoned and who suffered gross abuse. The mother and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 30. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will meet with representatives of the car rental industry to hear and find solutions for Covid-19-related issues regarding the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45046/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consultancy Contracts (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the details for his Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specifically Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1790/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details for his Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specifically Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tax Exemptions (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if owners of commercial vehicles that have been off the road due to Covid-19 restrictions and whose businesses (details supplied) are unable to open are being given the option to tax their commercial vehicles on a temporary or short-term basis in order to start to reopen without having to pay a full year’s road tax given they...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Consultancy Contracts (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details for his Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specifically Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1801/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 239. To ask the Minister for Finance the proportion of the national debt that is held by Irish bondholders; the proportion held by non-Irish bondholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details for his Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specifically Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1255/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if, in view of the importance of the car rental industry to the tourism sector, she will meet with representatives of the industry to hear and find solutions for Covid-19-related issues regarding the sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45045/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 310. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details for her Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specifically Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1800/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jan 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 366. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details for his Department for outsourcing to consultancies of specifically Covid-19-related work, services or advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1795/21]