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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to get the money back.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 will next meet. [33231/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 20 October, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of student nurses and the fact that they are working during a pandemic where they cannot do other jobs for the most part, certainly in other healthcare settings, and are working long hours on the front line of the Covid-19 effort and not being paid. That is scandalous. In that engagement the Taoiseach, who obviously was not scripted on...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The conditions for Palestinians under Israeli occupation are horrendous at any time but the fact that last Tuesday week Israel carried out, in the midst of a pandemic, the biggest demolition of homes of Palestinian families, 11 in number, making 80 people homeless including 41 children, is truly shocking. The pictures show the demolitions destroying water containers, farm equipment, solar...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the President of the European Council. [35167/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I spoke to the Taoiseach about his failure to pay student nurses and the use of temporary agency contracts for contract tracers and medical scientists carrying out testing, he baulked when I suggested that the Government is trying to fight Covid on the cheap. I should rephrase it and state that the Government is trying to fight Covid on the basis of cheap labour and utter gross...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This, by the way, reflects the experience of another group of similar contact tracers I mentioned a while ago who were on those zero-hour contacts-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for whom it took eight weeks before they got paid a cent by CPL. This is an outrage. What is the Taoiseach going to do about it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a full report on the Indemnity Agreement; the details of the 18 religious congregations that it indemnified; the amount these congregations have contributed to the redress board; the value of these contributions that were made by the transfer of property to the State; the details of these properties; the amount by way of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to relocate a school (details supplied) to meet its need to expand from its current two classes to have additional classes as the new school grows before the date of September 2021, at which point its current lease arrangement will no longer suffice; the way in which the school will meet the needs of the area the school is supposed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35476/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Council (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Judicial Council, with which persons could lodge complaints against members of the Judiciary, as set out in legislation passed in July 2019, has been set up; if not, when it will be set up; the reason for the delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35549/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the sectors of employment that those who test positive for Covid-19 are in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35628/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (11 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all Covid-19 screening programmes he has planned or is planning to introduce; if same will be introduced for screening by region, industry, school or third level institution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35629/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of his Department on census 2021. [33230/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was late to the Chamber and missed the Minister of State's reply. I take it that he is saying that the CSO, for public health reasons, feels it cannot go ahead with the census. That is perfectly understandable in the current circumstances. However, the Government could use the interregnum to prepare for a census to take place a year later and ensure we use the information provided by it....

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an exercise of the most cynical game-playing by the Government.

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankly, Government Deputies are smirking through their words because they know that it is cynical game-playing and politically motivated spite essentially-----

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----against the fact that an Opposition party put forward a no confidence motion in a Minister. It is important for people to know that Deputy Pringle, at the Business Committee, proposed an alternative that would have saved the €25,000 it will cost to move us at short notice over to the convention centre when we had decided we would be sitting here today.