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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry, I have to respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One student said: "My name is Conor. I am a first-year nursing student. In the last week I have had to wash, feed, lift and dress Covid-positive patients unsupervised." Another, Michelle, said: I finished my final six weeks' unpaid placement of fourth year. I was doing between 70 to 80 hours per week for six weeks, sometimes finishing placement at 8.00 p.m. and going directly into a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the eight different public health regions across the country; the number of staff in each region; the grades of these staff; the details of vacancies; the grade of each vacancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42381/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 215. To ask the Minister for Health if a lead public health clinician is employed by the HSE; if not, if the position will be filled; the reason for not filling same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42382/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a vaccination database in Ireland; if so, the vaccines it covers; the department of the HSE responsible for this database; if this database will be used for the Covid-19 vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42383/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the Limerick contact tracing centre is run; the persons in charge of the centre; the credentials of the persons; if they are employees of the HSE; the details of the clinical lead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42384/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the person that is the clinical lead for the Health Protection Surveillance Centre; the responsibilities of the body; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42385/20]

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Film and Television Industry: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chairman. In January 2018, a group of film workers who had worked for a long time within the industry came into the committee and said that there was a very significant problem with section 481 as it amounted to, in various years, €80 million a year plus grants or loans from Screen Ireland of €20 million a year, which over ten years is equal to approximately...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Film and Television Industry: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Loans totalling €176 million were given to independent film productions between 2006 and 2018. It has been reported to me that the recoupment rate of those loans in that period is €12 million. Do we, as members of the public and taxpayers, not require some explanation on how loans are being given out by the body in charge of the industry but we are only getting that low level...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Film and Television Industry: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are for Screen Producers Ireland and Screen Ireland, specifically for Screen Producers Ireland in terms of its position that essentially no employment relationship existing between its members and people engaged on its productions. How can they explain that and how are they going to the courts saying no such relationship could even exist?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Film and Television Industry: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record, those were not answers to the questions I put. The ballot referred to was a ballot, and Ms O'Sullivan can correct me on this, of 790 people but there are 2,000 people in the industry.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Film and Television Industry: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we ask additional questions?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Film and Television Industry: Discussion (9 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought because there was 15 minutes left.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a member of the budget scrutiny committee we were engaging with the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council today and it pointed out that the significant expenditures related to Covid-19 and, previous to that, Brexit, that led the Minister to defer the plans to put €500 million into the rainy day fund were part of a trajectory of debt, even though it approves of the Minister's decision to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are all being put in that position.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are all being put in that position.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Taoiseach's words six weeks ago?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will send the Taoiseach an invitation to that meeting. He can meet a few student nurses. They are good people to talk to.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, the Solidarity-People Before Profit motion on student nurses was drawn up in direct consultation with hundreds of nurses at meetings we organised online . It was, therefore, their words, not ours. When the Taoiseach insults the motion they effectively wrote, he is insulting them. He is also insulting their intelligence when he plays politics because the following are his words to me...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (8 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the case.