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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...

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?