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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a report on the number of sanctioned whole-time posts across CDNTs in September 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024; details of whether these posts are filled or vacant and, broken down by CHO and discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39409/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 242. To ask the Minister for Health if a CT scanner has ever been considered or approved for installation in St. Michael’s Hospital, Dún Laoghaire; if so, the outcome; where the scanner is now; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39330/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 256. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a report on the number of sanctioned whole-time posts in the Ireland East Hospital Group in September in 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024; the details of whether these posts are filled or vacant and, broken down by hospital and discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 257. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a report on the numbers of sanctioned whole-time posts across CAMHS in September 2020, September 2021, September 2022, September 2023 and September 2024; the details of whether these posts are filled or vacant and broken down by CHO and discipline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39410/24]

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To my mind if we are going to put any kind of stamp duty to try to deter these profit-driven investment funds from bulk buying properties, it should be 100%. Otherwise we are wasting our time. That is what it should be because there is nothing good about these investment funds bulk buying homes. It is disgraceful that apartments are not included. Most of what is being built at the moment...

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has 25 seconds.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fair bit of latitude.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disgraceful.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. The Government has unprecedented resources at its disposal that could have delivered a transformative budget to resolve the housing catastrophe the country is facing, address the crisis in the health service and the cost-of-living crisis and eradicate poverty. Instead of doing that, it has given us a splurge of one-off...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take in relation to the increasing reports of no-shows of the No. 59 bus (details supplied); if a report on this service over the past two years will be provided, including whether fines have been paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39062/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he will take to alleviate the pressure at a centre (details supplied) which has resulted in one of the residents being moved to another centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39063/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning Cara Darmody committed to protest every week from now on unless the Government fully and immediately takes action to vindicate the rights of children with additional needs. It needs to give her those commitments and undertake those actions. I promised the parents of a child named Frankie that I would mention him. He is four-and-a-half years old. He has autism. He has global...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe the Tánaiste will talk to Cara.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that section 39 workers who are funded by her Department were excluded from the pay restoration agreement between the Workplace Relations Commission and the HSE, and therefore have not received said pay restoration; if she commits to ensuring that section 39 workers funded by her Department receive pay restoration; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How is it that members of the committee-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had no idea who was on the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Normally, the members of the committee go first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should have been members. In any committee members go first and it does not have to be discussed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the representatives of the OPW for their contribution to this discussion. They are obviously aware that the bike shed scandal has brought the Houses of the Oireachtas, the OPW and the public services into disrepute. People cannot understand how a bike shed could cost the same as a house. I cannot think of any good explanation for why a bike shed would cost more than a house. I am...