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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing to say on the points about a single portal and a streamlined structure for complaints, because I totally agree with Mr. Tyndall. As the Chairman suggested, people should be told by public bodies that if they are not happy with a decision in a particular area, they have a right to go to the Ombudsman and we should push that. From Mr. Tyndall's experience this year, have any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry. Yes, perhaps it is too much.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Almost everywhere else.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Role and Functions: Office of the Ombudsman (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chairman, and I thank Mr. Peter Tyndall and Ms Bernadette McNally for their submission. On the issue of the remit in areas they feel should be covered, they have answered well the issue of clinical judgments on which I share their view. The witnesses said prisons and direct provision should be covered. I agree wholeheartedly. Do the witnesses have an explanation as to why...

European Stability Mechanism (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Members of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform first saw the heads of this Bill, which is quite technical, last week. I am still trawling through the detail because there is much to digest. It is important, in this Second Stage debate, to make clear to members of the public, using language they understand, what is at stake. When we speak of the European Stability...

Topical Issue Debate: Data Protection (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely hateful and obscene that the Minister will from today charge people for the basic human right to access water which people need to live. As if this is not bad enough, to then demand with menaces PPS numbers and other sensitive personal information is really an outrage and the Minister of State's reassurances do not convince me. The Minister of State says that Irish Water...

Topical Issue Debate: Data Protection (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government was imposing those penalties.

Topical Issue Debate: Data Protection (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Government members who are imposing penalties and putting their mates on the board.

Topical Issue Debate: Data Protection (1 Oct 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a day of shame for the Government and a day of fear, anxiety and outrage for hundreds of thousands of families who, for the first time in the history of the State, will be charged to access the basic human right to water, on top of all of the stealth charges and taxes that have been loaded on the people to the point where many are utterly crippled financially. The anger and outrage...

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Micheál Martin can just tell us what was involved. His party did the deals in question.

Order of Business (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is because Deputy Martin did the deal.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question concerns double standards when it comes to the way Europe deals with the situation faced by Palestinians, and the people of Gaza in particular, in the wake of the recent assault by Israel on Gaza. I would like the Taoiseach to explain how on earth the EU can continue to confer trade privileges and effective associate EU membership on Israel, contribute €840 million in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had discussions with other EU Heads of State in relation to Israel following the recent attacks on Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36517/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 88. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the case in the High Court at the end of August where no inpatient bed was available for a teenager with psychiatric difficulties, if he is satisfied that the welfare of children with such difficulties is being adequately catered for considering the new stresses on the system since 16 and 17 year olds have been brought into child and adolescent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Health if he considers the welfare of children with mental health issues is adequately protected considering the chronic shortage of inpatient beds throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35734/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide full details and guidelines with regards to the JobBridge and Gateway schemes operated by her Department; the reasons for two different schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36912/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Functions (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 324. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of his decision to transfer questions submitted last week by this Deputy to the Department of Health, if he will indicate the areas of child welfare he is responsible for or has an interest in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36913/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Reviews (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 420. To ask the Minister for Health if the medical card reviews for over 70s, suspended last May, has been recommenced; if so, if he will publish the new framework for awarding medical cards which was due to be in place before the review recommenced; if he will provide details of the estimated cost of this review and if he will explain the rationale for the review considering the plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 428. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin. [36969/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (30 Sep 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 574. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with regard to Irish Water and allowances for children if he will indicate the way in which the allowances will apply where a child spends half the time with one parent and half with the other; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36970/14]