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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.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the vacant homes action plan with details across the country of the repair and lease scheme, compulsory purchase of vacant homes and the vacant site levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1386/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: NAMA Portfolio (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has met or is considering meeting NAMA to discuss the part it can play in the delivery of social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1387/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance if emails, memos or minutes of meetings between his Department and public or private banks in regard to cases of mortgage arrears or potential repossessions on the book of those banks will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54527/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Registration (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 970. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a petition organised by an organisation (details supplied); her plans to deal with the concerns of those affected by the illegal adoptions that took place here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54092/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 996. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has employed an independent medical person to review medical files from mother and baby homes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1522/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Repair and Leasing Scheme (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the repair and leasing scheme by county; the take-up of this scheme by landlords; the amount paid out; the number of units brought back into use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1393/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of properties compulsorily purchased or in which the CPO process has been initiated by the local authorities to provide social housing by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1394/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (15 Jan 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce affordable housing schemes in 2019; when and the locations in which they will be available; the persons who will qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1625/19]

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was a payoff, not a penalty.

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: From the Seanad (19 Dec 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Having listened to the Minister, I am hopeful that things are moving. By the way, I thought the advertisement was good. It just needed something else with it to say there were legal protections. We have made progress and I take the Minister at her word, but I do not buy the technical argument because there is politics behind it. I am not saying the Minister is being duplicitous, but there...