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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past three years, I have repeatedly raised the plight of tenants in the St. Helen's Court apartment complex in Dún Laoghaire. They have faced four attempts by two different vulture funds that bought the complex to evict them using loopholes in the Residential Tenancies Acts. They tried to increase the rent by 60% at one point, they then used substantial refurbishments as...
- 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]