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Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maduro is an authoritarian. I am not a supporter of Maduro. I am a supporter of the people's revolt that happened a number of years ago against the deep inequalities in Venezuelan society.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maduro is an authoritarian but that does not give Trump or anybody else the right to interfere in the political processes in Venezuela. That is up to the people of Venezuela. Does the Taoiseach really think the Government or the EU should be interfering and, essentially, giving cover to Trump, who is threatening military action in Venezuela?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I took far less time than some others.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent contacts with the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission. [5670/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trip to Brussels and the meetings he attended. [6709/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the reason they have had to organise protests.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit does not have a majority on that council. I can assure the Taoiseach of that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The People Before Profit local representative in the north inner city, Gillian Brien, who resides in the flats on Constitution Hill, was forced recently to organise a community protest at Dublin City Council offices over rat infestation in the flats and apartments on Constitution Hill, Queen Street, Dorset Street and Upper Dominick Street. A five year old child was bitten by a rat recently....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Renewal Schemes (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when he last met with the Dublin inner city forum. [5309/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have asked several times, as have others, whether PwC is the appropriate group to investigate the scandal of overruns in the national children’s hospital. As the Taoiseach is aware, PwC worked for BAM, the main contractor, at the centre of this issue. It has received up to €34 million in fees for auditing BAM. That is a serious conflict of interest. I do not see how one...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not an answer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is how tight the budget is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of us have been saying that for a while.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has investigated or plans to investigate a similar move here in view of the decision of Luxemburg to introduce free public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6722/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 353. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person with a full medical card is charged for blood tests in a general practitioner surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6328/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments Services (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 459. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the accident and emergency department in St. Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, cannot accept an ambulance after 6 p.m. despite the fact it is open until 8 p.m.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6801/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 725. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps a person should take who does not qualify for a social welfare payment due to his or her spouse's earnings although they are estranged but compelled to live under the same roof due to the housing crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6749/19]

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is very simple. Does the Minister for Health accept that we have unsafe staffing levels in our hospitals? We should have a ratio of 1:4 but it is more like 1:8 or 1:11. Does the Minister accept that we are short hundreds of nurses when it comes to safe staffing levels in psychiatric and mental health services?

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ministers should stop the propaganda and the dishonest spin and tell the truth about the nurses. That is the message I received from the nurses outside today and those on the picket lines every day. They are sick of hearing the Ministers say they are on salaries of €57,000 and that there is no retention or recruitment problem. It is nonsense. There are unsafe levels of staffing...