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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 498. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the various rates of pandemic unemployment payments, including the sectors in which the recipients previously worked; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28176/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 499. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of paying all those in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment a rate of €350 until the end of April 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28177/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing all social welfare payments to €350 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28178/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 501. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the full-year cost of increasing all social welfare payments to €300 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28179/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 502. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of granting a €1,000 bonus to all recipients of the carer's allowance. [28184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Living Wage (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 503. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of moving all social welfare claimants, including pensioners, to a living wage. [28185/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 626. To ask the Minister for Health the number of disease control workplace inspectors in the employ of the HSPC; the estimated full year cost of their employment; and the percentage of businesses inspected by them in 2019 and to date in 2020. [28187/20]

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people are losing faith in the ability of the Government to deal with the Covid-19 crisis. They have endured incredible hardship and they are facing a grim outlook for the foreseeable future. Despite all of the suffering and hardship they have endured, the situation, once again, is deteriorating. The message that we are all in this together, which underpinned the huge efforts that...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the same way as it facilitated its own Bills, which it has rammed through, will the Government facilitate us on this critical issue to address the problem of homelessness?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Monday.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not have Private Members' time next week.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which is run by the Government.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government commits to addressing the ongoing and shameful homelessness crisis. The Green Party and Fianna Fáil when in opposition supported our Bill to halt evictions. In the context of Covid-19 the Government was forced, rightly, to bring in an eviction ban because making people homeless is totally incompatible with public health, yet the Government has now allowed...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to expand the more than €5 million pilot performance programme from the recently activated July stimulus to the live entertainment and event sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27482/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We covered some of this ground in a previous question. The €5 million announced in the July stimulus for 35,000 people is a pittance. The Minister says this is just a pilot, but a pilot is not good enough for the dire situation that faces those 35,000 people. The Minister will know that the EPIC working group, The Events Industry Alliance, the National Campaign for the Arts and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us make a comparison. The Minister might not give me the exact figures that she is recommending in the negotiations but in New Zealand, the package for arts, music and live entertainment is €175 million. This dwarfs what is being given to, let us remember, a live music and events sector that has never received a cent from Government, and never asked for it, and an arts sector...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear. At the best of times many people who worked in the arts were in borderline poverty situations. Cuts to the pandemic unemployment payment and the employment wage subsidy scheme will, potentially, drive thousands of people into poverty. Without sufficient grants to cover insurance costs, warehouse costs, debt repayments and other ongoing payments, people are going to go...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the recommendations she has made for a roadmap for the arts and live entertainment sectors to reopen safely, protecting the public and workers across arts and entertainment in addition to ensuring the survival of the sectors as Ireland moves out of Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27483/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people who work in live entertainment including music, the arts, the performers, the sound people, promoters and the crew have been crucified as a result of the pandemic and the restrictions which, with the current trajectory of infections, are set to remain so for some time. I have asked repeatedly for months, as have the people involved, and the Minister will know they have been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely welcome the fact that the Minister responded to that informal approach, which I made on behalf of the Events Industry Alliance, to get more representation on the task force. Even since then, however, the situation has deteriorated. With more severe restrictions being imposed in Dublin, and possibly elsewhere, it is a very grim picture that is facing the events, music and arts...