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Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit fully supports the objective of the Bill, which is to try to protect and support employment in the SME sector. We are fully aware that small businesses are responsible for more than 1 million jobs. It is absolutely right that the Government takes the necessary measures to protect and sustain the jobs in that sector. While supporting the objective, we have a number of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They should not control the health service.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If there is time, would the Taoiseach come back on my question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will give him a bit.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My point, arising from what happened with Covid-19 in the nursing homes sector and from the Caritas and St. Mary's situation, is that we have a completely fragmented nursing home care sector. Some of it is good and some of it is not so good, but we are in control of hardly any of it. The nuns in this case seem to have turned into property magnates and to have lost any interest in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the timeline for the implementation of the programme for Government. [16789/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On one level, the programme for Government contains everything. It is motherhood and apple pie. Some of us have criticised it because, when one looks at the detail, it is vague and aspirational and does not make tangible commitments in the key areas in which people demanded change at the general election. That is where my question is focused. For example, the section entitled "An...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned the discussions in Europe about the need for a stimulus and the package that has just been agreed. I referred to something earlier which I find quite shocking. It beggars belief, to be honest. The EU4Health programme was a €9.4 billion programme to create strategic medical stockpiles and a pan-EU medical response force, strengthen public health systems,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The frugal four, or is it five now, should be more aptly described as the austerity hawks. "Frugal four" is just too nice for the attitude these people seem to be taking. I am absolutely stunned that one of the victims of this negotiation should be an eightfold reduction in a health scheme to respond to Covid. The EU4Health programme and the details of it are set out on the EU's website....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the discussions he has had with other heads of government since he assumed his position. [16788/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the matters he plans to raise at the European Council meeting. [16790/20]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The nurses-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Words are simply not matched with deeds. The major source of infection in the context of Covid-19 is now among healthcare workers. After all that we went through, healthcare workers are getting the virus. Siobhán Murphy described what they are having to deal with. They are working 12-hour shifts and are not getting adequate breaks. Health facilities are chronically understaffed,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is cutting their payment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about checks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Actual checks are essential.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to challenge the Taoiseach's assertion that he is on top of dealing with the Covid-19 crisis. His Government has already lost its way in dealing with Covid-19 and if things do not change we are facing a very serious situation and the likelihood of a second wave and we will not be in a position to prevent that becoming a very significant problem if not a disaster. As well as the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration is being given to altering the three month waiting period which applies to school leavers not going on to further education before applying for jobseeker’s allowance for young persons that cannot find work or part-time work during Covid-19 restrictions (details supplied); and if she will make a...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the contributors and pay tribute to Ms Murphy and all her colleagues for putting themselves in harm's way in very difficult circumstances to protect all of us over recent months. It seems from what the witnesses are telling us that the rhetoric we heard about the wonderful work of healthcare workers has not been matched by supporting front-line workers such as Ms Murphy in the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Infection Rate among Healthcare Workers (21 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to thank Ms Siobhán Murphy so much, on behalf of all of us, for what she has done. Does she believe that lessons have been learned by the HSE and the Government from the rather harrowing experience she has clearly gone through? Does she get any sense that the problems will be addressed? What would making the situation different and better for her entail on the ground as a...