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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Policy (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 924. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans for the future of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence units nationwide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11557/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Policy (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 926. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress of the domestic violence accommodation review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11559/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 925. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if a progress report will be provided on employing the promised domestic abuse worker in Tusla in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11558/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 927. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and name of women's refuges nationwide; the funding models for running the refuges; the up-front costs for sourcing the buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11560/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1029. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a series of matters (details supplied) relating to planned changes to the pandemic unemployment payment; the new payment in respect of each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11555/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1086. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, approved housing bodies and Tusla to ensure that there is a women's refuge in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11552/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1087. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the moratorium on evictions and revise the manner in which landlords can evict for rent arrears in view of the extreme loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11566/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1088. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a moratorium on upward rent review will be implemented in view of the extreme loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11567/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1089. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a greater level of support will be ensured for tenants accruing arrears due to a loss of income experienced by many during the Covid-19 pandemic; if further support will be ensured for HAP and rent allowance tenants who are paying top-ups to their landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11568/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The agencies' pitiful failure, and leaving not recruited hundreds who are qualified, is inexplicable, as is the Department not outlining the cost. I have a question about St. Mary's Centre on Merrion Road, run by the Sisters of Charity, who say the centre will have to close because it is unable to meet the HIQA requirements. This is a centre for the vulnerable and elderly where there...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I have raised on a number of occasions my disquiet at the fact that the Minister decided to go through recruitment agencies, such as CPL, to recruit staff for the health service during the pandemic. I refer to the 70,000 people who bravely volunteered for the Be On Call for Ireland initiative. I asked a question recently of the Minister which was...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Recruitment agencies. I simply did not get an answer. I got other answers but not the answer about how much it cost. What I was told, which is fairly extraordinary, is that of the 70,000 people who applied for the Be On Call for Ireland programme, 111 have been recruited. That is pitiful. It is against a background of a dire need for increased staffing for Covid and non-Covid care, where...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is. If we had a State company giving guaranteed, quality employment, recruiting apprentices and so on, we could do the scale of retrofit programme that we need to do. The other point is the pay-as-you-save scheme. As the Government has been talking about it for years, why the hell do we not have it? I simply do not understand. We should give people €30,000 or €40,000 in...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While this is primarily about the climate transition we need to make, given that the Minister of State is here, I want to raise one urgent issue. It would be good to get his response to it. Threshold is the latest group today to appeal to the Government to extend the eviction ban for a number of months. I argue it should be extended for the foreseeable future. Some of us have been...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Communications (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been in contact with the President of the United States of America and-or the US ambassador in view of the recent events in the US and recent comments regarding the dangers of racism. [10419/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Communications (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has contacted the US ambassador to condemn actions by a police force (details supplied) in view of the recent events in the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10420/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if passport applications are now being processed; if passports are being issued to those needing to travel for work or study abroad in circumstances in which travel is permitted; if processing has not resumed, when the service will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10114/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 258. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to end the direct provision system here in view of the recent events in the United States of America and increased awareness of the dangers of racism and discrimination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10421/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the location a drive-in cinema in which patrons are isolated in their cars and staff are safely socially distanced may reopen under the Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business. [10013/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 409. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine opening up physiotherapy for those with severe conditions and those with a disability that rely on a physiotherapist to administer treatment for managing painful conditions and to mitigate against worsening health in the case, for example, of those with paralysis or degenerative diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter....