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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Expenditure (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 703. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of adding 1,000 acute beds to the hospital network [24761/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 710. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of hiring 4,000 new nurses on the pre-2011 rate of pay [24793/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 711. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of hiring 500 consultants [24794/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 723. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parkinson’s disease specialist nurses that will be employed under the enhanced community care fund (details supplied); if there will be an increase in the number of neurologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24851/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 724. To ask the Minister for Health if the higher income threshold for eligibility to a medical card for over 70s introduced in Budget 2020 has been applied; if not, when it will be applied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24854/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 726. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the reduced number of hours for a person (details supplied) at a service; if the reduction is due to staff shortages; if so, his plans to replace staff that may have left or been redeployed during Covid-19 restriction measures; if the original number of hours they spent at the service will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Staff (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 727. To ask the Minister for Health if the Carmora service in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin is short-staffed; if so, the reason; if the HSE is responding to the need for additional staffing for the service for persons with additional needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24865/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 728. To ask the Minister for Health if the respite hours available to users of the Carmora services in Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin have been reduced; if so, the reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24866/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 834. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount it will cost to maintain the current pre-Covid-19 levels of service provision across the health service in 2021 in view of demographic changes and inflation and Covid-19 [25505/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 835. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost to reduce prescription charges by €0.50 [25506/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 836. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the DPS threshold to €50 and €100, respectively [25507/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing accident and emergency charges. [25510/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 838. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to reinstate the 2008 dental treatment services scheme [25511/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 845. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of Covid-19 cases nationally including the sectors and industries that the persons work in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25593/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of planting 125,000 hectares of foresting with a mixture of broad leaf and native species. [25516/20]

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As our representative on the Business Committee, I asked for this debate a number of weeks ago. It is telling about the coup d'étatthe new Government implemented to silence the smaller parties that having asked for the debate, we had to wait for three or four Government speakers who spoke during three different slots before some of us got to respond to the Government's position. It is...

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Had it nothing to do with Deputy Lahart then?

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry, unless Deputy Paul Murphy comes to the Chamber, in which case we will change it slightly. This place, I have to say, makes me laugh or cry sometimes. We have had an hour of Government speakers before we get reached, by which time the Minister - no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Troy - is gone. That is what the changes to the speaking...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not rehearse the despicable treatment of more than 1,000 Debenhams workers by Debenhams. It has been well rehearsed in the House. I thank the Independent Group for tabling this motion. We also put forward a motion before the summer recess. All agree that what Debenhams has done to its workers is absolutely shocking, but what we must discuss is the unwillingness of the Government to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there time left?