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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the categories of calls in respect of the number of ambulances that have been deployed to between 100 km and 150 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11902/19]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 380. To ask the Minister for Health if the AMPDS system has a facility to allocate crews a rest break; if not, the system used to ensure crews have their mandatory rest breaks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11903/19]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 381. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether driver fatigue is an issue in the NAS; the number of ambulance crews in 2018 that had to discontinue their shift due to fatigue; the number of incidents in which ambulance crews and-or managers had to recover them and provide assistance to get them back to their station's base; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11904/19]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 382. To ask the Minister for Health if staff are being deducted pay from their core salary after having availed of mandatory compensatory rest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11905/19]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made between the HSE and his Department regarding meetings between both in respect of the ongoing ambulance service dispute; the resolution he has found; when he plans to inform, update or invite a union (details supplied) into the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11906/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (12 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 577. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the name of the person who will replace a person (details supplied) as chairperson of the Taxi Advisory Committee. [11855/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the fact. Glenveagh Properties plc seems to think it is. Where is the affordable scheme? The Government promised it in 2016, and now the Tánaiste is saying it is going to be another two or three years-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----so there is no hope for a whole generation of young working people whose incomes could not possibly allow them to afford these property prices. Cairn plc properties have an average selling price of €428,000 this year. Has the Government not failed? Why does he not admit it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sometimes the Devil can tell the truth.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At 2 p.m. on Saturday protesters will gather in Dublin city centre in the latest of a series of demonstrations organised by the National Housing and Homelessness Coalition to protest at the Government's failure to address the housing emergency. The protesters will gather at three different locations in the city centre and then converge on a building, which we will not disclose at the moment...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is very simple. Is that not the real explanation for our housing crisis? While the Government has talked about providing affordable and public housing, it has not done it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It has actually facilitated obscene profiteering by vulture funds and developers - the very people who nearly brought the economy to its knees.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The boys are back in town and the Government brought them back to town. Ordinary people looking for an affordable roof over their heads are paying the price.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I presume the Tánaiste would not accuse the authorities in Berlin, for example, of being ideological. It is holding a referendum essentially to root out vulture funds and property speculators from Berlin because they are contributing to the housing crisis. That sentiment is expressed across the board in Berlin. There is nothing comforting in what the Tánaiste has said. He has not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----through the housing assistance payment, HAP, leasing arrangements and transfers of property assets to these people who are profiteering.

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not surprise me that the legislation has moved through the House as quickly as it has. The main purpose of the Bill is not controversial; it is to maintain as fully as possible the status quoin the common travel area to avoid disruption. No sane or sensible person in this Chamber would want to cause unnecessary disturbance or massively disrupt the status quo, particularly in the...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is very dangerous growth of that type of politics all across Europe, including within the European Union, and we cannot lay the blame for it on Britain. It is a failing of politics generally in the western world. We have also seen it in the United States. While we have to deal with a very immediate problem and the consequences of Brexit, we should not imagine, whether it resolves...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans for a permanent school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10929/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Breaks Standardisation (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to issue specific guidelines for time to be set aside for eating and hygiene in primary schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10928/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (6 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a disability accommodation appeal will be allowed in the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11040/19]