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Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 854. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to act on the proposals for a centralised common general practitioners' contract for performing vasectomies, put forward in 2016 by a working group of general practitioners performing vasectomies at the request of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13706/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Vehicles (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has responded to queries from an association (details supplied) regarding fraudulent small public service vehicle, SPSV, licence applications; if fraudulently obtained licences also received wheelchair accessible vehicle grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14048/19]

Recent Developments on Brexit: Statements (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry.

Recent Developments on Brexit: Statements (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are witnessing the rather shambolic death throes of the great British Empire, as it would have seen itself. Given the blood and hardship for which that empire was responsible across the globe, one cannot be terribly sorry to see this decline. The rotten politics, which dominates the British Tory party and to which Theresa May has been hostage, is propelling us towards the ever more...

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was caught up in committee.

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do.

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Fianna Fáil for the motion. I agree with the overall thrust of it and the various measures proposed to try to deal with high insurance costs. Costs have tailed off a bit for motorists but are still significantly impacting home insurance, business insurance, public liability insurance and so on where insurance premium increases have been very dramatic and punitive for some...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his implementation of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care, in particular the commitment to invest in talk therapies as an alternative to relying on psychiatric medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12388/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the dramatic increase in the prescription of psychiatric medication over the period from 2012 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12387/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to his Department spent on agency nurses; the percentage of nurses this is; the way in which this compares with the same statistics in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5942/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if he has commissioned or carried out an investigation into the projected number of nursing staff that will be needed over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5943/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Data (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses working in the health service by grade (details supplied); the way in which this compares with the same statistics in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5941/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the tender process used to recruit the contractors for the new national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5944/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if he has commissioned or carried out an investigation into the cost-benefit analysis of the use of agency staff versus full-time staff across the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5945/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Health the discussions he has had with the Ministers for Children and Youth Affairs and Education and Skills with regard to the increasing length of time children are waiting for assessments of needs and access to early intervention in the case of disability; if consideration has been given to a strategy across all three Departments that will see disabled and...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank everyone on the Commission team for their work and their presence. Following on from Deputy Broughan's references to Brexit, there is something slightly surreal today about discussing the economic situation in Ireland with an assumption, technical or otherwise, that things remain the same when there is a very significant chance that we are going to get a shock. I would like to know...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but has he anything to say about wages and precarity? The big obstacles to people returning to work include low levels of pay, lack of job security and so on. They hamper people making the decision to go back into the workplace, which we clearly need in a whole number of sectors Mr. Martínez Mongay has rightly identified.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Scrutiny of European Commission Country Report Ireland 2019 and European Semester (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one very specific question. The housing crisis is the most acute domestic crisis we face at the moment. I cannot emphasise enough how bad it is for a huge number of people, whether they are on housing lists or are working and cannot afford market prices or market rents. Along with public housing, one of the big issues for us is affordable housing. What freedom and latitude do we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 375. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the dynamic deployment method AMPDS system that is being used by the NAS control centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11898/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Data (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 376. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that have been deployed to calls that are between 50 km and 100 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11899/19]