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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of permanently increasing and staffing fully and on a permanent basis to bring the level of ICU beds to 560 in the hospital network. [27799/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the current levels of nursing home care provided through the public health system. [27800/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the subsidies paid to private nursing homes. [27801/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the fair deal scheme. [27802/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of subsidies paid to the private hospital network. [27803/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of conducting 200,000 Covid-19 tests per week through the existing network of State-owned and operated medical laboratories. [27805/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if he has costed a move towards a Covid-19 saliva sample testing system; if so, the estimated full-year cost of conducting 35,000 tests per day via the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27806/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which the Covid-19 pen-and-paper tracking and tracing system is currently configured; the estimated full-year cost of operating the system; if there were reductions in the numbers of staff involved in the system following the introduction of the Covid-19 tracker application. [27807/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 285. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health consultants in the employ of the public health service; and the estimated full-year cost of employing them. [27808/20]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It could be the beginning of a great relationship.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, indeed. Everything we do at the moment, we do in the context of Covid-19 and the need to maintain social solidarity in the face of the existential threat we face now and which we have been facing for some time. The guiding principle that has underpinned this is that we are all in it together. People bought into that and have suffered great hardship on the understanding that we would...
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand Deputy Cairns's frustration, but these circumstances were set up the moment the Government tried to ram the Bill through. It was always going to happen that we would be in this situation, which is why I kicked up about it on the Order of Business yesterday. The normal process of pre-legislative scrutiny would have meant we would have dealt with much of this earlier. We would...
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will. I am dealing with the amendments.
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a group of amendments.
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a group of amendments.
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: All the amendments in the group centre on the same subject.
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every amendment in the group centres on the same question, namely, whether we should rush things through and short-circuit the process or instead protect the process by which citizens can appeal. That is what the debate is about and it is what all the amendments in the group are about. Our amendment in the group is amendment No. 59, so that is what I am speaking to, but I am also speaking...
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the Deputy's opinion and I disagree.
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, the Deputy is trying to spin it.