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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to address perceived widespread income, employment and career insecurity for arts workers in theatre and film and elsewhere in the arts and cultural sector particularly in view of the recent letter by theatre practitioners regarding a theatre (details supplied) and ongoing disputes in relation to similar issues in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Abbey Theatre (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 80. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the recent controversy in a theatre (details supplied) following the recent letter signed by theatre practitioners regarding employment in the national theatre; her further views on whether the controversy more generally reflects widespread employment and income insecurity among theatre makers and arts workers...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry Development (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure that future public funding for the film industry will be strictly conditional on the provision of quality employment and training, full compliance with employment legislation and participation in the film industry stakeholder forum proposed by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Culture, Heritage and the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to follow on directly from that. I was talking to representatives of the INMO. To cut a long story short, they stated the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform had sanitised and gutted the HSE's submission. It was then put together as a joint submission to the Public Service Pay Commission. The HSE's submission to the Minister which is not the submission made to the pay...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have seen the document from the INMO that shows substantial passages in which the HSE acknowledges the problem. I do not have time to quote them now. The Minister's answer is not accurate. The passages do not appear in the joint submission made to the Public Service Pay Commission.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would appear that part of the reason the Public Service Pay Commission did not acknowledge that there was a retention problem was because the submission from the HSE, which stated there was a retention problem, did not get to it. Essentially, key passages were gutted. In the joint submission from the employers, namely, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the HSE, all of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I hear. I hear that the Department influenced and sanitised the submission from the HSE. I have seen evidence showing that. Anyway, I have made my point.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My second point is on the same issue. The Minister is misleading the public and being disingenuous by referring to a €300 million cost in respect of the nurses' pay demands. He is not acknowledging that there will be significantly increased tax as a result of that and the additional recruitment. He is not acknowledging the savings that will be made in the payment of agency nurses,...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, it probably would happen. I have some sympathy for the Minister when he gets criticised for spending too much only for the same people to demand he spend more, but he cannot level that charge at us.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (16 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We supported the VAT increase. We proposed measures like increasing employer's PRSI, financial transaction taxes and wealth taxes, which would have generated the necessary revenue. Is the IFAC not correct when it says that the Minister is not acknowledging the real costs that will be incurred and the expenditures that he will have to make? To plug the gap, he is using unsustainable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach could answer the question I asked him.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I asked is why the Taoiseach thinks the nurses are going on strike.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is why the nurses are going on strike.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question was about the strike.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mentioned patients.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The ESRI recommended paying the nurses but that was ignored.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E, health, will meet next. [51725/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is extraordinary to listen to the Taoiseach's answer on the health service: one would think everything is improving. We are facing industrial action by thousands of nurses from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation and the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland. Incredibly, the Taoiseach's Cabinet committee on health has not met since November despite facing industrial action by...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is happy as long as the Chinese eat more red meat.