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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]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that have been deployed to calls that are between 100 km and 150 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11900/19]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulances that have been deployed to calls that are over 150 km away from the location they received the call; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11901/19]

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?