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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1435. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if additional funds will be made available to the Covid-19 crisis response award by the Arts Council in order to support artists that have lost income as a result of the health crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7011/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Breslin and Dr. Holohan for all the work they have done. Nobody has doubts about that. Dr. Holohan said he has a concern about health workers. The infection rate among healthcare workers is very high - Dr. Holohan said it is 31%. Why is it so much higher among Irish healthcare workers than it is in other jurisdictions? It is one of the highest. Why is that the case? What...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by Department of Health Officials (19 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are signed up to the European project on convalescent blood plasma therapy. I asked weeks ago for a report on how that is going. The results are promising. I understand there are apheresis machines for the extraction of blood plasma in St. James's Hospital and that 500 people who have recovered from Covid-19 have offered to make donations, but those machines are not being used to...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Reid rightly praised the healthcare workers earlier. We all praise our heroic healthcare workers. How does that correctly given praise tally with the decision to recruit healthcare workers and nurses who volunteered to answer the call from Ireland through temporary agency contracts provided by for-profit groups such as CPL Resources? Those contracts are the worst of all possible...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope all of those people will be made permanent. Does Mr. Reid agree that having people waiting on trolleys in emergency departments is incompatible with the public health guidance on social distancing and has to be addressed, and that there has to be a zero tolerance attitude towards it?

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we need to go further now. There was never a justification for a two-tier system. There has been a general acknowledgement with Sláintecare that that is the case. Now that we have the private healthcare capacity in our hands, why on earth would we go back? It does not make any sense. There is a problem with this contract because it is essentially rent to people who are...

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Nationalise them.

Covid-19 (Health) - Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. I wish to press the Minister on the issue of public and private healthcare. Given that Covid-19 will be with us for the foreseeable future, any consideration of a return to the two-tier system is untenable. The Government needs to make up its mind. Fianna Fáil seems to be somewhat sitting on the fence and even hinting that we should go back...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are sharing time. I urge the Government and this House to start working immediately on a new deal for workers facing the prospect of protracted or long-term unemployment. I hear that the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, briefed the Green Party and Fianna Fáil about potential economic devastation and a return to a 1980s-style depression with long-term unemployment. I do not think we should...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. As the person who asked for it, I thank the Ceann Comhairle and the Business Committee for agreeing to have this debate on the arts. I ask the Minister to imagine at the best of times what it would be like if we had no music, comedy, film, theatre or art. Imagine going through the past two months if we had none of those things. It is too...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy, with five minutes each. Bus Éireann is flouting the Government's protocols for the return to work, published on 9 May. They require that if bus workers cannot social distance on Bus Éireann buses, there should be screens. There are no screens, however and bus workers are very concerned about the return to work that will see passenger...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners Data (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments made by the Revenue Commissioners to law firms in 2018 and 2019. [3945/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Legal Fees (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments made by NAMA to law firms in 2018 and 2019. [3946/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Data (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance the payments made by the Central Bank to accountancy firms in 2018 and 2019. [3947/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Projects (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance the pro bono work undertaken by accountancy firms for his Department from 2015; and the details of the projects they worked on. [3948/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 571. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in terms of the funding deficit that a service (details supplied) is experiencing that may result in the inability to continue providing services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4471/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the diabetes nurse for Loughlinstown health centre has not been replaced; if the post will be filled as soon as possible in order that those in need of the service do not have to go to Balally, County Dublin, or Ballywaltrim, County Wicklow, which are inaccessible by public transport for persons living in the area; if in the absence of a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1336. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if it will be ensured that artists, arts workers and organisations can plan for next year by guaranteeing that at least the same level of increased investment in the Arts Council and Culture Ireland will be committed for 2021. [5428/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Funding (13 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1337. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a roadmap will be created in order to address the way in which arts investment will be doubled by 2025; and if a commitment will be given to double investment in the Arts Council and Culture Ireland over the same period. [5429/20]

Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Trump-like buffoonery and recklessness of Boris Johnson have been fairly evident to most people in this House and country for some time. If there is something of a silver lining to the grim public health emergency and pandemic that we face, it is that the buffoonery and recklessness on Johnson's part has been further revealed. For most people, Brexit and everything else are being seen...