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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Ireland (3 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1292. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding for grants Culture Ireland had available for 2020 before the Covid-19 emergency generally and for music-specific applications; if that same funding for grants will be made available during and post the Covid-19 emergency to artists, acts, touring groups and so on in the absence of international touring and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: EU Funding (3 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1294. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department is or will receive funding from the EU Coronavirus response investment initiative; if her Department has applied to receive additional funding from this initiative to protect the arts and entertainment sector while shut down during and beyond the phased reopening; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: EU Funding (3 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1295. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports which are being or will be made available through the Creative Europe programme for the island of Ireland; the funding or State mechanism that funding and support will be disseminated through; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9454/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1296. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will be requesting that all artists, performers, technical and arts workers will be given extended access to the Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment and businesses in the sector to have extended access to the temporary wage subsidy scheme in view of the fact that the sector will remain in shutdown beyond the period...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Promotion (3 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1298. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will organise and fund a series of small scale events in line with public health guidelines and physical distancing across heritage sites to provide work for Irish artists in order to showcase Irish art; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9596/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (3 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will consider purchasing a property (details supplied) to add to the State list of great houses; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9597/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wage Subsidy Scheme (3 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1300. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action she has taken or will take to address the fact that Irish film production companies making live action films at studios (details supplied) that chose to terminate the employment of all film production crew in response to Covid-19 rather than retain them as employees under the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if she...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (2 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government announced that it would make changes to the public-private contract on Friday.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (2 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I immediately contacted the secretariat in writing and stated that in my opinion it would be crazy for us to have a session today with the HSE and the Department of Health without having the Minister, Deputy Harris, here as well because Mr. Breslin has already made clear that he cannot answer certain questions to do with policy because they are not in his remit. It renders redundant our...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Business of Special Committee (2 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not labour the point as we need to get on with business but this is closing the door after the horse has bolted. The Government has made a major announcement that it is going to change the deal and hand back much of the private capacity without us discussing the extent to which we need that private capacity, whether it is the best way, if we should be going back to the two-tier system...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would Mr. Breslin accept that we are caught on the horns of a major dilemma here, where one is damned if one does and damned if one does not, arising from the fact that on entering into this crisis we had woefully inadequate levels of capacity in intensive care units, ICU, beds, staff and consultants? That is the fundamental problem. It was unacceptable, on entering into the crisis, that we...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not dispute that. We accept there is an unacceptably low level of capacity given the pre-existing challenges pre-Covid-19, and now with Covid-19. As a sidebar, I will turn to the heroic work of our health workers. Are the high infection rates in any way linked to the low staffing and capacity levels, which meant staff were overworked, working excessive hours and therefore exposed...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed) (2 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair enough. Given that we have to increase capacity, would it not be helpful if, for example, the Department did not have to negotiate with private hospitals but just had the capacity? Would that not be better? It would be better if we knew what was on their books, which we do not really know, in terms of the cost of beds. Would that not be better notwithstanding the need to ramp up...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Travel Restrictions (2 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many issues impacted by Covid-19 in terms of transport. I do not have time to address all of them but as a general remark, while social distancing and Covid-19 is around, if we are going to maintain our public transport system it has to be on a not-for-profit basis. It will not be commercially viable, but we cannot do without it. We have to move to a not-for-profit approach. On...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 - Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection (Revised Estimate) (28 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The Minister has sought to assure people that there is no plan to cut the pandemic unemployment payment, and we heard similar assurances from the Taoiseach yesterday. I will outline why people have reason to be distrustful of those assurances. First, it is worth remembering that the original proposal from the Government for support for people who lost...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There should be no buck-passing. The guidelines just need to be changed as this is public health we are talking about. These overcrowded conditions were unacceptable from the get-go but now they just simply are not compliant with public health guidelines. Accordingly, these guidelines should be changed. One of the rather grim facts of the Covid-19 situation is the pretty awful spike in...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I should probably be directing this question to the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, but I will ask it anyway. I have made fairly well known my views that the box-room, rabbit-hutch accommodation known as co-living is not something that should be allowed in this country. It is just a way to make money for...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is back and forth. I will come back.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Spokespeople for Fianna Fáil and Ministers from Fine Gael have been expressing horror at the idea that people who may have earned less when working before Covid-19 are now getting €350 a week. They are trying to justify suggestions that the €350 payment should be cut for those people and many others who have already seen a reduction in income. Does the Taoiseach think...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach went way over time. The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, has talked about cutting and tapering the Covid payment, saying it is unsustainable. Deputy Rabbitte of Fianna Fáil has said that the payment is unfair and unsustainable. It is not. People who are earning multiples of the amount of the payment are suggesting it is unfair,...