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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is shocking.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not make accusations lightly but the Minister has just misled the Dáil, just as he has been misleading the public. Under a heading that mentions general advice to avoid non-essential travel the website states, "In accordance with Government policy, which is based on official public health advice, the Department of Foreign Affairs continues to advise against non-essential travel"...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Being dishonest does not make it clear either.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he had with the NPHET with regard to the production of the green list; if he requested the advice that the expert advisory group provided to the NPHET in this regard; the reason he decided to proceed with a green list given that the clear advice from the NPHET was to discourage persons from foreign travel; and if he will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Varadkar, and the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, have been under the spotlight for the disgraceful move to cut pandemic unemployment payments, PUP, for people who engage in non-essential travel. The Minister himself has not been under much scrutiny but I put it to him that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Minister saying he is now a public health doctor, an epidemiologist or a virologist?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not. However the Minister has ignored the advice of the virologists, epidemiologists and the public health experts. He did not answer the question because he knows it would not suit him and would show that the Government has departed from the public health advice, from the expert advice. The Minister is saying there is no threat of bringing the virus back from these countries because...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To allow for physical distancing, as well as refurbishments we need extra physical space. This was true prior to the onset of Covid-19, where we had the most overcrowded classes in western Europe. They were unacceptably overcrowded. Now that is completely intolerable and incompatible with human health. While I understand refurbishment using libraries and sports areas is not ideal because...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [18564/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The climate situation was an emergency that needed to be addressed before Covid-19. The urgency to address the climate emergency has now been multiplied very significantly by the advent of Covid-19. There is a very important natural intersection between the destruction of biodiversity and the proliferation of pandemics. Some serious scientists are, to some extent, suggesting and have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on the Environment and Climate Change will next meet. [18563/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is remarkable news that the Cabinet committee on housing did not meet in advance of the significant and hugely retrograde decision, made in the Bill now passing through the Dáil, to open the door for a resumption of evictions into homelessness in the middle of a pandemic. I find that extraordinary. I do not know if the Government does not understand or, worse, does understand the...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim: Go gceadófar go dtabharfar isteach Bille dá ngairtear Acht chun an Bunreacht a leasú. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Constitution. This is the same Bill I introduced to the Dáil in 2017, and at that time it was narrowly defeated. It is worth saying that although Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael voted against...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim: "Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha." I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [18562/20]

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did send the details. I emailed the Minister last week. If this Bill goes through, the vulture fund that has been trying for three years to evict those tenants will succeed in evicting ten households, including families who have paid their rent for years and have never missed the rent. They are working people who will be evicted into homelessness as a result of this Bill's passing which...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I intend to share time with Deputies Bríd Smith, Mick Barry and Paul Murphy, who I hope will be here shortly.

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The slithering, sliding and U-turns of Fianna Fáil and the Green Party in particular have begun in earnest with this Bill. This is a shameful betrayal of tenants that opens the door to a new wave of evictions into homelessness in the midst of a pandemic. It allows for the unthinkable. We were warned yet again this morning on national radio by Mr. David Nabarro of the World Health...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for creating a green list for travelling during Covid-19 in view of the fact the clear advice from the NPHET is to discourage all foreign travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18569/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 47. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the discussions and or meetings he had with the airline industry with regard to the development of a green list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18566/20]