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Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has not given a clear commitment that there will be no cuts or tapering until the pandemic is over and until all the employment lost as a result of the pandemic has been restored. The Taoiseach should give a commitment, and I am asking for a commitment, that the over 66s and the under 18s who are being unfairly discriminated against get the payment also, and that many workers...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He was over time. That is why I was.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why the Taoiseach should give the commitment.

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry, in accordance with the questions-and-answers format agreed by the Business Committee. Today, People Before Profit and Solidarity Deputies launched an online petition calling on the Government to abandon plans to cut or taper the €350 pandemic unemployment payment, at least until the pandemic has passed and all the employment losses and economic...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There have been some positive measures taken in the face of the health emergency, such as freezing rent increases and stopping evictions, something the Minister previously said could not be done, and some decongregation of emergency hubs and allocations. Why could it not have been done before if it can be done now? Is it going to be permanent for those people? Will people who have been...

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----while people are suffering from homelessness and mocking people with Covid and making light of the work of our nurses. He is enjoying himself in South Africa while I have to deal with people like Brian who is 70 and is living in a shed. He should be cocooning but the only accommodation he is offered is a hostel in town, when he is living in Dún Laoghaire. There is Anthony, who is...

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State partly answered my question but I will ask it nonetheless. Many areas are impacted by the current situation but there is one that, it seems to me, the Government should have been thinking about already in our discussions with Europe. One thing that has been revealed clearly is that our public health system is under capacity. We have the lowest levels of ICU and of GP...

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Micheál Martin must ask a question.

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No problem.

European Council Meeting: Statements (6 May 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are very alarming signs that both the European Union and the Irish Government are utterly failing to learn the obvious lessons of the current public health emergency and are planning to revert to the failed austerity policies that did such damage in the aftermath of the financial crash of 2008 and to impose the cost and burden of this emergency once again on working people and the key...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been looking for transparency on the advice on which the Taoiseach is basing his decisions since 20 February, at the first briefing. I have asked on six occasions for the minutes, written advice and position papers of the expert advisory group that advises NPHET and the Government but have never even received the courtesy of an answer. Will the Taoiseach publish the minutes, written...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have read the contract and it is very clear. It is a temporary, special purpose contract for three months. At a time when we need permanent increases in staffing in our health service we are giving the worst contracts possible to people seeking to work in the public health emergency. I ask the Taoiseach to issue an instruction to NPHET to tell the expert advisory group to publish the...

Irish Economy: Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. I welcome the fact that the Minister said the economic strategy should be led in the first instance by public health concerns but those words have to have meaning. They cannot just be a rhetorical commitment to putting public health first. In the immediate term, putting public health first means we have to have the resources to ramp up dramatically...

Irish Economy: Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly, socialism. One cannot have workers such as Debenhams workers thrown out by the private market, which is interested only in profit, and left on the scrapheap, particularly when the State has a stake in that. That cannot be done. The alarm bells of austerity ring when I hear the Minister for Finance talking about divisive choices and tapering off Covid-19 payments. There can be no...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. First, on behalf of People Before Profit, I again extend my deepest sympathies to anybody who has lost family or loved ones and my support and best wishes to anybody who has received a positive diagnosis of Covid-19. I also again pay tribute to all the front-line health workers and essential workers who are protecting us and to the wider public who have...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand we are due to conclude before 8 p.m. If so, my proposal is null and void, but if we over-run and are still here at 8 p.m. I propose that we would join the national round of applause to the health and other front-line workers who are keeping us going and protecting us in this current situation.

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach not get seven minutes at the beginning?

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I extend my deepest sympathies to the families and friends of those who have lost loved ones to Covid-19. I pay tribute to the millions of people who, through their sacrifice and effort in physical distancing, have substantially impacted on the transmission of Covid-19 to protect the ability of our health services to cope. Most of all, I pay tribute to our...

Health (Covid-19): Statements (2 Apr 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I pass on my deepest sympathies and condolences to anybody who has lost a loved one, whether in this country or elsewhere. We have to do absolutely everything we can to minimise further tragedies of that sort as quickly as possible. I also want to pay tribute to health workers and other essential workers who are providing the services and protection we...