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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the big news here and it says it all, frankly. The warnings issued in 2008 have proven to be correct. That is quite stunning but it has taken us until now to get to that truth. We could not get that information last week or in the Dáil today. We have to have scoping exercises and all sorts of hullabaloo but actually, we just needed to know whether the issue was with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Mr. Breen know of any other cases where gagging orders have been sought?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, it was just CPL that was looking for a gagging order. Mr. Breen is asserting that under no circumstances would the State Claims Agency seek a gagging order in a case like this involving medical malpractice or clinical error. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If the Coombe had made a mistake - which very tellingly it has not - and was being sued, would that change the likelihood of a gagging order being sought? Would the situation be different if a case involved the Coombe and a domestic laboratory that is part of the health service here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us say, hypothetically, that a case had been taken over a false reading carried out in the laboratory at the Coombe. In those circumstances, Mr. Breen is saying that neither the HSE nor the State Claims Agency would have sought a gagging order. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever about screening quality, there is a difference in how the State treats a victim of a false reading if it involves the Irish health service as against a privatised, outsourced company. One puts the patient through the wringer and the other, that is, the public agency, does not do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of clarification, the indemnity kicks in or might be sought where the misreading is beyond normal error. Will Mr. Breen clarify whether it is only in those circumstances? A certain number of false negatives are expected. I just want clarification on that. Can anybody who gets a misreading under any circumstances take a case, and would the State Claims Agency seek...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In all those cases, beyond normal, was the-----

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the latest homeless figures; the reason he is of the view these figures have been overstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19866/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (8 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to make legislative changes to ensure that persons in receipt of the housing assistance payment, HAP, are kept on the regular social housing list rather than on a transfer list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19867/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Applications (3 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a travel pass will issue to a person (details supplied) irrespective of means. [19306/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (3 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which she plans to address the anomaly that persons who are homeless and under 25 years of age on jobseeker's allowance are on a reduced payment as per the rules of the scheme making it much more difficult for them to extricate themselves from homelessness. [19307/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Constitutional Amendments (3 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the referendum campaign on the eighth amendment to the Constitution. [18890/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Referendum Campaigns (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have been canvassing for the past four or five weeks and one learns much about what people are saying and thinking on both sides in the course of canvassing. Whatever side people are on, they are overwhelmingly shocked by how vile the imagery is. They are really upset by and very angry about it. I take some consolation from the fact that many who were considering voting "No" will now...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I must say I find this a very useful document, at least as a starting point. There is a lot of useful information put into a very readable form and it is not too long, which will be very helpful for working out what is going on in different Departments. I know that these are sectoral things but among the interesting things that have jumped out at me is the issue of bed days lost through...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, indeed, or felled. The report also indicates whether the figures have risen or fallen. Perhaps it is for the sectoral committees to flesh out or elaborate on the metrics in order to have a net picture. However, here the report gives the figure for the new hectares of forest planted, it does not say how many trees were cut down in the same period, so one cannot see if net afforestation...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would like to know how many were cut down.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Public Service Performance Report 2017: Discussion (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That does not always happen.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise a brief point of order on this question.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Brexit Negotiations (2 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is.