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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Based on estimates of demographic changes, demand, maintaining services and so on, does the HSE not know at the beginning of the year that there will be a deficit at the end of the year?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The HSE actually does spend more. That is the deficit.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Budget Management and Control of Health Expenditure in the context of Budget 2020: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My apologies, but I have to fly. Is that okay?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (4 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to an organisation (details supplied) and its recent report into alternative ways to achieve the climate mitigation target of 1.5 degrees limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28431/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Adaptation Plans (4 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has engaged with an organisation (details supplied) and its response to the IPCC report and recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28432/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (4 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the arrest of a person (details supplied) by Egyptian security forces in dawn raids on 25 June 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28722/19]

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I commend Deputy Barry and Solidarity on tabling this motion. I pledge our complete support for the campaign of workers in the Cork mail centre to fight against the disgraceful decision to close the centre and eliminate these jobs. The Minister should bear in mind that An Post does not have a good record on making strategic decisions about its own future....

Cork Mail Centre: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Gino Kenny.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not get a response to my questions, again.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many aspects to the scandal of the national children's hospital and the shocking financial mismanagement by this Government of this project, which is going to cost the people of this country €3 billion. As if that is not bad enough, I am not exaggerating when I say that when I tell people there is going to be a private section to the national children's hospital, they do not...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I just get my question answered?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I deserve some answers.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no good reason in this case.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee D, infrastructure, last met. [26872/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach this morning about the really shameful inequity in the cancer treatment available to people with malignant melanoma. Some people who have the right private health insurance can get access to pembro and other potentially life saving drugs, while others who do not have private health insurance or have the wrong policy cannot. It is shameful that money should dictate...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, last met. [26623/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the medicine?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has said it is committed to universal healthcare and to ending the two-tier health system. However, Professor John Crown highlighted recently the shocking situation where people with cancer, specifically stage III melanoma, cannot get the optimum healthcare - the drug pembrolizumab - and other potentially life-saving drugs because they do not have private health insurance, or...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This deal should be opposed completely. The Government should oppose this deal if it cares at all and if there is any meaning to its concerns about the environment, the protection of human rights and the protection of the interests of farmers. Any equivocation about that exposes whose agenda this Government and the EU are really championing, namely the agenda of big business and major...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Afforestation Programme (3 Jul 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the efforts made to address the failure to meet afforestation targets and to develop a higher proportion of native and broadleaf forestry within the national forest estate; his engagement with Coillte in this regard and with regard to developing community woodlands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28232/19]