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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (2 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider establishing a State pharmacy to source best value pharmaceuticals for supplying hospitals, general practitioners and pharmacies, and to estimate the savings that would be made to the Exchequer with this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13766/16]

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:"notes the failure of the Fine Gael/Labour Government to give adequate legal protection and legally enforceable rights to collective bargaining to workers in this country; further notes the failure of the Fine Gael/Labour Government to halt the spread of precarious and low...

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Ruth Coppinger.

Health Care Committee Establishment: Motion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The state of the public health service is a scandal and a disgrace. In so far as this new committee can contribute anything, its contribution will be to moving away from a failed policy that has been pursued for the past decade at least and pursued consistently by the last Government in pursuit of the mirage of universal health insurance, a policy it has finally abandoned. If only it had...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In addition to the points already made, not only should the committee have an input in terms of equality budgeting, anti-poverty budgeting should form part of its remit because one can have equality in poverty and that is not much good. The statistics on poverty and deprivation are pretty severe. One of the objectives of any committee like this must be to ensure nobody in this country is...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Barrett is right that this is about setting up the structures for a new budgetary process. The consensus view is that it should be chimed with the new politics, whatever that might be, but that there would be a new way of doing budgeting that is more open, transparent and participative, both with groups inside and outside the Parliament. However, it is legitimate, in the context of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (1 Jun 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 161. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13842/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is now perfecting to the point of a masterclass the answering of questions other than those he was asked. I did not ask him to predict the outcome of the US election. I know he does not have a crystal ball; neither do any of us. The question is, given the racist, dangerous and reckless rhetoric and policies articulated by Donald Trump, if he becomes the President of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it hard to believe that the Taoiseach did not discuss the possible outcome of the US election when he was in the United States-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I cannot believe that they were talking about much else. The whole world is talking about what the possible outcome of this election-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I am asking the Taoiseach is, given the enunciated policies and attitudes of Donald Trump, if he becomes President, will the Taoiseach continue to allow US troops, of which Mr. Trump will be Commander-in-Chief, to use our airports as part of US military actions?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach remember rolling out the red carpet for him?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will be our business if troops land at Shannon.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am asking whether there were discussions on NATO and Irish involvement in it while the Taoiseach was in the United States. Is there any truth in the report that the last Government had agreed to Irish participation in NATO military exercises, which would have been another very serious breach of Irish military neutrality?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Losing or gaining.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach regret the forthright support he and the Government have indicated all along for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, when leaders in Europe, most notably François Hollande recently, have said that under no circumstances are they willing to sign up to the TTIP deal? It reflects the growing opposition to TTIP across Europe due to concerns that it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any meetings he held during his recent visit to the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11577/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed the issue of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in any of his meetings on his recent visit to the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11578/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (31 May 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of recruitment in the public service since the moratorium was lifted; the number of persons who have been recruited across each section; the procedures management has to follow to obtain sanction to recruit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13010/16]