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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...

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...