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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 621. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will outline, in the aftermath of the mother and baby homes legislation, the information that will be handed to Tusla; the information that will be kept by his Department; the records that will be sealed for 30 years; the personal information that will be available to persons who were in mother and baby homes; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) is entitled to the SUSI special grant rate as they have been previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38340/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 776. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are moving house or are in the process of finding and or viewing new accommodation are permitted to travel beyond the 5 km under current level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37823/20]

Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Covid-19 has forced us to rethink many of our priorities and understand what is important. Many of those things that we have learned the importance of during Covid-19, and which we should have known before, start with higher education. There are the doctors, the nurses and the scientists we need to cope with a health crisis, the engineers, the architects and the apprentices we need to build...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The CRSS will benefit some in live entertainment and music and that is to be welcomed. The report itself, however, obviously influenced by the campaigning of groups like the Events Industry Alliance and the Event Production Industry Covid-19 Working Group, EPIC, points out that huge numbers of SMEs in the music and live entertainment sector will not qualify for the CRSS because they do not...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I requested the first debate on the impact of Covid on the arts in the House earlier this year. The central point of what I said at the time was that life, without arts, music and culture, would not be worth living. I am glad to find that sentiment has found its way into the title of the Minister's report. However, while we have all these positive proposals, what has actually happened?...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide grants and supports to the self-employed and sole traders who work in the arts, entertainment, music and event industry who continue to have work-related overheads despite having little or no work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35170/20]

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At one level the task force report on recovery in arts and culture is welcome. I refer to the proposals for a basic income pilot scheme for those working in the arts, local authority funding to be continued, a support for well-being programmes, upskilling and training, loans for small and medium-sized businesses in the events sector and other proposals such as, importantly, payment for...

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. It is one of the proposals in the task force.

Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is about the income supports and other supports for people working in the arts and creative sector.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the results of the pilot project announced in the July stimulus will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37387/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the pilot project announced in the July stimulus to support the arts, live music and entertainment industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37386/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions taken regarding clothing and textiles deposited in clothing banks and unused clothing and textiles from the charity industry; the regulations and checks in place to ensure environmentally safe disposal of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37480/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will advise domestic employers who mistakenly believed they could apply for the temporary wage subsidy scheme for their employee and were not informed by the Revenue Commissioners when they made email inquiries nor when they applied that the scheme did not cover domestic employees and now are being asked to repay the moneys; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Undefined (19 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any prior discussion took place between the Government here and the UK Government before the introduction of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill in the UK Parliament in view of the extraterritorial applicability and implications for the criminal justice cooperation between Ireland and the UK; if...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [36674/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to speak about Covid-19 and the necessity of an all-Ireland approach. The worrying stall in the reduction of cases that we are now seeing further adds to the urgency of doing everything possible to try to develop such an approach. Could the Taoiseach give us a report on his latest efforts in that regard and the communications he has had with the Northern authorities to try to push...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to look into that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with education will next meet. [35424/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said something earlier with which I thoroughly agree, which is that if Covid-19 is widespread in the community, the consequences are felt in the hospitals. We are seeing them in hospitals throughout the country. In that context, we should be concerned about the fact that the reduction in the number of cases appears to have stalled in a worrying manner. While everybody...