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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of bringing all currently employed school secretaries under the direct employment of her Department. [27812/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Respite Care Grant (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of restoring the respite grant to its highest historical level. [27809/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of the pandemic unemployment payment at current levels from now until the end of 2021. [27810/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 276. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of permanently increasing and staffing fully and on a permanent basis the number of acute beds to obtain 85% occupancy in the hospital network. [27798/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of permanently increasing and staffing fully and on a permanent basis to bring the level of ICU beds to 560 in the hospital network. [27799/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the current levels of nursing home care provided through the public health system. [27800/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the subsidies paid to private nursing homes. [27801/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of the fair deal scheme. [27802/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of subsidies paid to the private hospital network. [27803/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of conducting 200,000 Covid-19 tests per week through the existing network of State-owned and operated medical laboratories. [27805/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if he has costed a move towards a Covid-19 saliva sample testing system; if so, the estimated full-year cost of conducting 35,000 tests per day via the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27806/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the manner in which the Covid-19 pen-and-paper tracking and tracing system is currently configured; the estimated full-year cost of operating the system; if there were reductions in the numbers of staff involved in the system following the introduction of the Covid-19 tracker application. [27807/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: 285. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health consultants in the employ of the public health service; and the estimated full-year cost of employing them. [27808/20]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the Minister.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: It could be the beginning of a great relationship.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-budget Engagement: Minister for Finance (1 Oct 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, indeed. Everything we do at the moment, we do in the context of Covid-19 and the need to maintain social solidarity in the face of the existential threat we face now and which we have been facing for some time. The guiding principle that has underpinned this is that we are all in it together. People bought into that and have suffered great hardship on the understanding that we would...
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand Deputy Cairns's frustration, but these circumstances were set up the moment the Government tried to ram the Bill through. It was always going to happen that we would be in this situation, which is why I kicked up about it on the Order of Business yesterday. The normal process of pre-legislative scrutiny would have meant we would have dealt with much of this earlier. We would...
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: I will. I am dealing with the amendments.
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a group of amendments.
- Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)
 Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a group of amendments.