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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (7 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to ensure that a person (details supplied) continues to receive their rent allowance in view of the circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6054/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who holds the public health service together? It is the nurses and the midwives, the ambulance drivers, and the GPs. The Government will not speak to the INMO about the issues that have brought its members out on strike, it will not recognise the National Association of General Practitioners, NAGP, the representative group of the general practitioners, and it refused to talk to the National...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest there really is something surreal about the way the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government is trying to explain away what can best be described as an existential crisis across the public health service. Those in Fine Gael pride themselves on their management skills, efficiency and financial prudence, yet they are trying to justify what has been, in the period Fine Gael...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister put out a comforting narrative at the outset about the general situation in the health service but to my mind it would clash fairly strongly with the perceptions that people have about what is happening in the health service in general at present. Would people not be correct to be pretty sceptical? The GPs are protesting outside because we have a crisis in general practice. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When they get in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will now in a second.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, having waited two and a half hours and now getting five minutes, I will ask a couple of direct questions. Does the Minister believe it is appropriate to use PwC, to which he has essentially batted off the incredible escalation under Fine Gael management on the national paediatric hospital project from €400 million to €1.4 billion? Now he is batting off the answers to all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unfortunately, I have to leave now for Leaders' Questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will stay for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does that hold, even though PwC worked for BAM for nine years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a one line question for Mr. Woods about something he said. If I heard him correctly, he said the board knew about the escalation from €61 million and had received a figure at a meeting in September. Is he saying the figure of €450 million was known at a meeting in September but that it did not get to the Minister until November? If it is true, it is shocking. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion
Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (6 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should see that report.

European Defence Agency Project: Referral to Select Committee (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are selling arms to al-Qaeda.

European Defence Agency Project: Referral to Select Committee (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the record, it is not my birthday tomorrow. It says that it is on Wikipedia, and it slightly worries me that the Minister has been on my Wikipedia page.

European Defence Agency Project: Referral to Select Committee (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will read a couple of excerpts from an article in The Guardianpublished in the last couple of days. Under the headline "Yemen: inquiry finds Saudis diverting arms to factions loyal to their cause" the article reads "An investigation into weapons being used in the war in Yemen has shown numerous examples of arms supplied by the UK and the US, among others, ending up in the hands of militias...

Ratification of EU and NATO Status of Forces Agreements: Motion (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I indicated in the discussion before the motion was referred to the committee, there is something Orwellian about the Government's claim that involving ourselves in an arrangement with NATO does not impact in any way on our neutrality. The phrase "Partnership for Peace-NATO" is Orwellian, too. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is a military alliance dominated by some of the most...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos. [4066/19]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach entered into Deputy Enda Kenny territory in Davos.

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. We famously remember how the Army was going to be guarding the ATMs such was the severity of the economic crisis. The Taoiseach decided to emulate the rather bizarre comments of the former Taoiseach with the claims that we would have the Army deployed on the Border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. This is despite the fact that the Taoiseach comes into the House and repeats the same...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Staff (5 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should hire a nurse as an adviser.