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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The inspections and monitoring.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the activities of the shared island unit in his Department. [23668/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit is an all-Ireland party. We believe we must move to a united Ireland and end partition. A number of groups and parties in the House would say they subscribe to that view in one way or another. This is a very opportune time in view of the Covid-19 pandemic and how it has highlighted the irrationality of partition when we need an all-Ireland approach to health and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [23667/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on from Deputy McDonald's question, there is not only the issue of pupils who may have underlying conditions but there are also parents who are worried and who have serious underlying conditions. It is not clear to me, and I have had quite a few calls about this, what those parents should do. They do not know what to do or whether there is a danger in them sending their children...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies if I missed it but which Cabinet committee or group, if any, is dealing with arts and culture? I would hate to think that this area has been overlooked, particularly given the really dire plight of performers, musicians, arts workers, crews and events people. The latter group are out protesting because, as with other groups, their incomes and livelihoods have been hammered by the...

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am taking seven minutes and my colleague is taking three. The Government has ignored all of these issues and the sword of Damocles now hangs over taxi drivers because of the plan to cut the pandemic unemployment payment tomorrow. That will also affect other workers. I have just come from a demonstration of events workers. Some 22,000 taxi drivers and their families and 35,000 events...

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be moving my amendment to the motion. I will be sharing time with Deputy Barry. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward its motion. I agree with everything in it and I hope Sinn Féin agrees with the additions I propose to make to it. These include a very specific step-down subsidy for taxi drivers to allow them to return to work without losing their pandemic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [22339/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [22651/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have questioned the Taoiseach and appealed to him extensively, including today, on matters relating to taxi drivers and the public transport system. As we discussed earlier, there was a major protest involving taxi drivers today. The Taoiseach has expressed sympathy but has not given a clear commitment. When will he make a decision on the key demands being made by taxi drivers, because...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with health will next meet. [22338/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was at the taxi drivers' protest during Leaders' Questions, so I have not fully studied the roadmap, but I want to know what the strategy is, as do the people. Specialists in public health, immunology, infectious diseases and so on are saying that we should be pursuing a zero Covid strategy as against what appears to be, in this plan, a roller-coaster strategy, going up and down and up and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of special advisers he is planning to hire in his Department. [23666/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When the Taoiseach was leader of the Opposition, he would regularly get up and berate the then Taoiseach, who is now the Tánaiste, for excessive reliance on special advisers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He definitely did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ministerial Advisers (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He lambasted the Tánaiste weekly for reliance on PR and accused the then Government of being a Government of spin. It is quite extraordinary to have 21 advisers, including three press secretaries. On top of that, there was an announcement this week that a PR firm will be employed to mediate between NPHET, the public health advisers, and the Government. It will be a buffer which will...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This roadmap is pretty much the most-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have had a very serious announcement about public health restrictions. I think it is crazy that the matter is not being debated this week in the House so that it can be explained. I wish to register the ongoing opposition of Solidarity-People Before Profit to the changed speaking arrangements which were, in our view, deliberately designed to minimise the voice of the smaller parties....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the withdrawal of the crazy suggestion, which seems to have come from the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, of removing taxi drivers from bus lanes. We need more than vague commitments. We need very specific commitments. Subsidies have gone to other industries that have lost 20% or 30% of turnover. Taxi drivers have lost 40% or 50% of turnover. The more drivers return to work, the...