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National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Now the Minister has two and a half minutes remaining, one minute after you interrupted me.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hold on, a minute is going begging. I will-----

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said today that failure to tell the 167 women would not have changed their outcomes. That is true because they had already been diagnosed with cancer. Had that disclosure happened then, the storm we are having now would have happened then prompting the changes and alerts about the possible problems with the tests. In fact, it may have saved other lives and prompted earlier...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, the Deputy has.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Deputy Bríd Smith's question, the Minister was not around in 2008. However, he has direct responsibility for the concerns that were flagged by Dr. David Gibbons and Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith and other scientists. They went as far as resigning from the quality assurance committee over this issue. That is not insignificant. They were so concerned about the inferiority of the testing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Project Ireland 2040 Administration (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did, but I got no answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Project Ireland 2040 Administration (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We did for 50 years.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Project Ireland 2040 Administration (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned the expenditure planned in arts, heritage and culture in Project Ireland 2040. Did the committee discuss the absolutely shameful decision to sell the State's share in what are effectively the national film studios? They are both an important part of Ireland's cultural and film heritage and an important location for developing the film industry. Over the past number...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the international, European Union and Northern Ireland division of his Department. [18888/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the international and EU division of the Taoiseach's Department at all concerned about the massacre that Israel has been perpetrating against unarmed protesters in Gaza for the last number of weeks? Two days before those protests began I begged the Taoiseach to condemn and speak out against any likely Israeli armed attack on those protests but the Taoiseach ignored me in the Dáil...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to a recent article and documentary detailing the alleged mishandling of disclosures of serious abuse at a service (details supplied); the measures being taken by her Department in relation to staff and board members for allegedly misleading investigators and victims; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 57. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has had engagement with a service (details supplied) in view of alleged mishandling of disclosures of abuse detailed in a recent article and documentary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18895/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 375. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if children born in Mother and Baby Homes will be eligible for redress to address the psychological impact of having been separated from their birth mother; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18590/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures available from her Department to assist a person (details supplied) in order to extricate themselves from homelessness; her plans to address this anomaly for persons in similar situations under 25 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18920/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Working Family Payment Data (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 429. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of families in receipt of FIS in circumstances in which the worker is employed in the public sector or the semi-State sector by public or semi-State areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19025/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Labour Activation Programmes Data (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage and number of unskilled workers over 50 years of age who received full-time employment through Turas Nua from April 2016 to April 2017; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19116/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 May 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 459. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for families that entered into the affordable housing scheme and now need to move due to geographical or family size need in circumstances in which they are not in a position to increase their mortgage and the clawback is still owing to the council in view of the fact that there is no follow-on to the scheme; and...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. A cost of €58 million to build a school, rather than have the State do it directly, sounds like a hell of a lot to me. Furthermore, we are now discovering that because the traffic going through the Limerick tunnel is not as heavy as was originally envisioned, the State will have to fork out €200 million to make up the shortfall. In conclusion, the other side will...

Public Private Partnership on Capital Infrastructure: Statements (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit is opposed to PPPs as a means to deliver services and infrastructure. Is that ideological? No, that contention essentially arises from logic. Any logical examination of PPPs would suggest they have to be more expensive in terms of delivering services and infrastructure than the traditional method of the State doing it directly, as it has done in the past and used to do...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (26 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the closure of 12 hospital beds at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dún Laoghaire, in January 2018; when these beds will be reopened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18336/18]