Results 8,961-8,980 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of reversing cuts to the back to education allowance. [25699/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost to increase social welfare payments to 2009 levels. [25840/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of measures (details supplied). [25849/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated average cost of keeping one young person in remand in a youth justice remand facility for one year. [25726/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 156. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average estimated cost of recruiting four youth workers, one team leader and an administration person in the youth work sector for one year. [25727/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mental health beds available in each CHO; and the number of persons waiting for beds. [25722/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do the witnesses think it is important for us to debate the strategy? The public are losing confidence and things are not going in the right direction. I do not think anybody could argue that things are going in the right direction at the moment. Notwithstanding differences of opinion, how important is it for us to have this debate? Even at our own committee, the Chair and I were very...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a pity we only have a short time to discuss the last point. We need to have more of these discussions but that is for another day and we will talk to the committees here about that. Earlier Dr. Schaffer said that there is evidence that social gatherings, house parties and so on had contributed to the current situation. She may have information that we do not and this is part of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's decision to press ahead with the cuts to the PUP are a disgraceful and dangerous betrayal of thousands of working people who have lost jobs and incomes because of Government measures. The people who have been hit hardest by the pandemic are now being kicked while they are down. This is grossly unjust and a serious danger to the collective social solidarity that is absolutely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the role of his Department in the development of the forthcoming plan for dealing with Covid-19. [25609/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unless the Taoiseach reinstates the eviction ban, he will be throwing thousands of renters to the wolves in the worst of all possible circumstances. We opposed the Government's decision to lift the eviction ban, which had been very successful, as we said it would be, in reducing the numbers going into homelessness. In removing that ban, the Taoiseach betrayed his previous support for the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [22649/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the UK Prime Minister. [24047/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We must make clear to Boris Johnson that the peace and stability of this island comes ahead of his reckless, race-to-the-bottom agenda for Britain and for the particular business interests he represents. It is a recklessness that has again summoned up the spectre of a possible return to a hard border and breaks agreements, international treaties, protocols and so on that were designed to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not. Since I have made the same points on the other issues, I will not labour them. When I came in here this morning, I had no intention of calling a vote until I heard from the Chairman of the Covid committee that the Minister for Health, representatives of the HSE, the Chief Medical Officer and representatives of NPHET were not coming in. Our spokespeople were prepared for those...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is threatening to unravel the sense of social solidarity that did exist and that underpins the compliance and cohesion we need to deal with Covid-19 because if people do not understand the logic and the rationale behind measures they will lose faith in the public health effort. The Taoiseach doubled down on that mistake by then cutting into the economic supports for people...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know, and I will keep making it because it is an insult and it seriously undermines accountability in that Ministers are not actually here to be held account by all of the party groups. It is a studied insult and contempt.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I brought the attention of the Dáil to this matter and it still does not answer the question as to why the Minister for Health could not come in. The issue is not about the winter planning, which is a separate matter. There was no specific item about them coming in to deal with the winter plan. This plan has now become the excuse not to discuss the restrictions. The Minister disowns...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, is working in the front-line services.