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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 832. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the extension of parental benefit is not coming into effect until April 2021; if she will consider bringing this forward in order that parents of children born during the Covid-19 lockdown can make use of it before their children are placed in full-time childcare facilities; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 852. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the case of a person (details supplied) in relation to a PPS number and the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32556/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Payments (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 856. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person in receipt of a jobseeker's payment who has applied for and been accepted for a community employment scheme can and should be pursued by Turas Nua simultaneously so as to be removed from social protection payments of any kind and return to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32572/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: After-School Support Services (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 955. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will clarify the regulations regarding after-school care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33607/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1177. To ask the Minister for Health if acupuncture is deemed an essential service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32530/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists and speech and language therapists employed directly or indirectly of the HSE that have been redeployed for Covid-19 measures in addition to the normal full complement of occupational therapists and speech and language therapists employed by the HSE. [32537/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1181. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Business Services is the only body within the HSE with responsibility for recruitment and filling of positions; and if so, the number of positions the Health Business Services has filled for tracking and tracing staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32538/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1182. To ask the Minister for Health the number of jobs or positions the HSE has filled or hired; the number of these positions were filled by HBS versus the number were filled by outside agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32539/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1379. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the recent announcement by St. John of God Community Services that it will be withdrawing from the provision of disability services over the next 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31342/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1391. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a full list of regulations to allow for fines for the breaking of Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33603/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1392. To ask the Minister for Health if a school (details supplied) that teaches music to students with intellectual disabilities is allowed to stay open under level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33605/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1393. To ask the Minister for Health if court ordered parental access which requires travel and household visiting is not impacted under level 5 regulations and that such arrangements must be continued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33606/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1395. To ask the Minister for Health the details of his negotiations with the private hospital sector to ensure a permanent increase in the capacity across the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33226/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1401. To ask the Minister for Health if student nurses on job placement in hospital and care settings are being paid by the HSE or another body; the rates of pay they are receiving and entitled to; if they will be given employee rights while in these roles; if so, the rights they will be entitled to; if these placements, payments and employee rights extend to the duration of any Covid-19...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1408. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the laboratory service at St. Michael's Hospital had its hours of operation reduced on 5 August 2020 back to pre-pandemic levels (details supplied); if his attention has been drawn to the fact that out-of-lab-hours point-of-care blood testing is being used, despite the fact that this equipment is known to generate erroneous results, and that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (3 Nov 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1485. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if dog grooming and dog training falls under essential animal welfare services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32310/20]

Level 5 Response to Covid-19: Statements (Resumed) (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Ó Ríordáin was late and has messed up my speaking slot.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move Amendment No.1: In page 4, line 36, after “Equality” to insert “and Dáil Éireann”. I did not respond to Deputy Stephen Donnelly's last point because I did not want to delay this section, but his argument is also relevant to this amendment. We are talking about weighing the Minister's political judgment against the collective wisdom of the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This section deals with definitions, particularly the definition around dwelling event. I just want to point out the sort of preposterousness of this and the misguided focus that it implies. This lies at the centre of how misguided this entire legislation is, namely, trying to suggest that the primary responsibility for rising infection rates and the necessity to resort to another lockdown...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.