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Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will let Deputy Barry speak for himself, but I never said that.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I said in my contribution and previously was that it is a fact that the majority of people who come into my clinic because they are threatened with eviction are in that position because the landlord is selling. It is not a flood, but there is a constant flow of people of all ages into my clinic. As a result of the eviction ban which applied during the heavy lockdown the number of...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons we opposed the extension of the emergency legislation today, and will oppose the plan to impose fines in connection with the public health restrictions, is not because we do not support the public health measures or think that people should not comply with them to drive down the virus, but because we do not think coercion is the way to achieve compliance with public health...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. Any respite for people who are threatened with eviction is better than their not getting that respite at all. This is true in the current circumstances and in any circumstances where people face the possibility of being made homeless by a landlord, overwhelmingly because that landlord wishes to sell a property or refurbish it or, as also happens, the...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2020: Second Stage (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no justification for what is happening to those people. Whatever about the perfect being the enemy of the good, which is the argument the Government is making in saying that we cannot solve everything right now because of constitutional limits and so on - I do not buy that argument, by the way - there is absolutely no excuse whatsoever, when we have a Covid strategy and when the...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am getting texts from survivors expressing their disgust at what they are witnessing being done by the Minister and the Government. They are saying how pointless this whole exercise seems to be, given the Government's unwillingness to entertain amendments. Is it not pretty damning that the people who should be at the centre of this process are disgusted at what the Government is doing?...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is rare that I am completely dumbfounded by the Government or the State but I really am dumbfounded. I am very curious to hear what the Minister has to say for himself in response to the points that have been made and to the request for a free vote, which I echo on behalf of survivors. I was talking to a survivor last night and she asked why on earth the Government would impose a whip on...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister could just nod.

Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act) 2020 - Part 3: Motion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The prospect of level 5 restrictions for the next six weeks is a pretty grim one. The normal social and human interaction that is the lifeblood of people will be curtailed to a very significant extent. It is, however, necessary for a very simple reason. For any who doubt that, and there are a few, it is necessary for the very simple reason that we cannot put our doctors and front-line...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Statute of Limitations (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if changes will be made to the time period that a case of clinical negligence can be brought; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32127/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (22 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 170. To ask the Minister for Health if a space is available for a person (details supplied) in a service shortly or in the next term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32107/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to refer to our earlier discussion. As the Taoiseach said, he discussed the European wide response to Covid-19, specifically cross-border contact tracing. That brings us to the topical discussion of the state of our contact tracing system. I mentioned contact tracing. Reference to private German laboratories is a bit of a deflection, to be honest.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that there is a large private pharmaceutical industry and it utilises its laboratories. There is also a state-of-the-art public health apparatus, something we do not have. We have run down our public health apparatus. A particular strength of the German system is the strength of its local public health apparatus and tracing regime. That is what is needed. Similar success has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no next day.

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council Meetings (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU Council meeting of 16 October 2020. [31339/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit was the only party in this House two weeks ago to explicitly support NPHET's call to move to level 5. We did so not because we like restrictions or lockdowns - we dislike them - but because we support a zero-Covid strategy based not on perennial lockdowns but on precisely trying to end the need for lockdowns by eliminating the virus. The excuse the Taoiseach has given...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not in the case of tracing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a copy of the contract. It is not good.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Council discussed co-ordination in the fight against Covid-19. It should be self-evident that at European and national level we need an integrated and properly resourced approach to combat Covid-19. It is worth dwelling on the fact that countries such as Germany have managed better because they have a tremendously well resourced and well staffed integrated national health...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Early this morning I stood with workers at the Debenhams picket line in Blackrock along with shop stewards, workers from other Debenhams stores across the city who came to their aid and many from the local area and beyond supporting them and was witness to strikebreakers from KPMG arriving, attempting to enter the store to remove assets and break the Debenhams picket line. They acted in...