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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [43543/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee dealing with housing will next meet. [43542/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The €3 million offer for retraining is an insult to Debenhams workers. The failure by the Government to ensure justice for these workers is appalling. I remind the Taoiseach that he said he could not put money on the table because it would set a precedent. A sum of €18 million is owed to the State by Debenhams. The Taoiseach did not mind setting a precedent when it came to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just sick of it.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was for the banks-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They were.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has had 250 days.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he has read the recent NESC publication entitled The Position of the Self-Employed. [42006/20]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Economic and Social Council (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he has read the recent NESC publication entitled Housing Policy: Actions to Deliver Change. [42007/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if the Traveller community has been given consideration in the different levels of the vaccination roll out plan; the position of same if they are considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43847/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (16 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 348. To ask the Minister for Health if the orthopaedic clinic in St. Vincent's University Hospital is open; if not, when it will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44007/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach used the word "balance".

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What of the student nurses?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has been pretty much happening for years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unfair environmental trade.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As has been said, it is going to be many months before we can get the population vaccinated. Until then, and perhaps beyond, the front line against Covid-19 remains in our hospitals. I want to respond to the systematic misrepresentations on the Taoiseach's part of the issue concerning student nurses and midwives, arising from a motion which we tabled several weeks ago. Let us be clear what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will continue the earlier discussion. The welfare of workers is an economic question and an economic imperative. I refer to the Taoiseach's response on Debenhams and the possibility of another such situation unfolding with the Arcadia workers who, I believe, will be protesting outside Leinster House early next week. Unless Arcadia is bought out, it is also facing liquidation and the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the progress of his plans for a high-level review of the economy to be led by his Department. [43544/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today is day 250 of the Debenhams dispute. Almost 1,000 workers, most of whom are women, and their families have suffered terrible hardship. They have endured a long battle for a just and fair redundancy and still, in the teeth of Christmas, they remain out protesting. I heard the Taoiseach's response to Deputy Barry earlier. He spoke about not engaging in a blame game. I want to be very...