Results 1-20 of 25,371 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All of that will come as cold comfort to Niamh and Anthony, for example, in the homeless hub in my area. They have two children and have now spent 20 months, two Christmases, homeless, and their biggest fear is that they will still be homeless next Christmas. It will come as cold comfort to Jennifer, who is in one bedroom with her two kids. She went on the housing list in 2008, the council...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [10626/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the former Taoiseach's visit to Washington on St. Patrick’s Day. [17961/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 May 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am one of the people who believes Leo Varadkar should not have gone to meet Joe Biden. Biden has said on several occasions throughout his career the following words: “If there were not an Israel, we'd have to invent one”. In those words, he revealed the true nature of the relationship between the United States and the crimes that Israel has committed against the Palestinian...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and our Malaysian colleagues for those kind words. The abuse, neglect, beating and mistreatment by tens of thousands of children by church-run institutions in this country over decades with the collusion or facilitation of the State is a dark chapter of shame in the history of our country. Thousands and thousands of people who survived those industrial...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We proposed an amendment to the Planning and Development Bill that would increase the amount of social and affordable housing we get from developments. Currently, as the Taoiseach is aware, we get 10%, or more recently, we may get 10% affordable housing. That means 80% of what is being built is unaffordable. We proposed, like other places such as Austria, that we would increase it to 50%...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: An international panel convened by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights has just produced a report - they are in Dublin - saying that the Irish State had failed to properly investigate a series of deadly attacks by loyalist paramilitaries in Ireland in the early and mid-1970s including the Dublin and Monaghan bombings. They particularly castigated the failure of the Garda and the State to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [17960/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach taking the people of this country for fools when he suggests that his plan to dismantle the triple lock is not a full attack on Ireland's neutrality? Whenever he attempts to justify this move he is planning on the triple lock, he refers to Russia. Of course, we all condemn Russia's attack on Ukraine as an indefensible occupation and military aggression. However, at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent visit to Paris. [15146/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cherrywood is the biggest residential the biggest residential development in the country. It is a new town with more than 8,000 apartments and houses. There are probably between 25,000 and 30,000 people living there. Many apartments and houses are being built and millions of euro of public money has gone into it but Hines, the wealth asset management company and main developer, has given...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know what the Government can do to intervene in this situation to ensure the developer, which has made a lot of money out of that development, delivers the town centre as it was supposed to do.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to ensure that each bus operator is updating the Transport for Ireland real-time applications where a service has been cancelled to ensure that customers are aware of service cancellations; the steps being taken to prevent cancellations from happening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18995/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the length of time a contract with a company (details supplied) lasts; when it was last renewed; the reason it was renewed, given that the service has been poor; how many times the company has been fined; the amount; when the contract will be put out to tender again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19006/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Elections (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to clearly outline which grades of employment are allowed to run in local government elections and which grades are prohibited from running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18960/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any Israeli West Bank settler organisations are considered proscribed and subject to restrictive measures or sanctions by the State on the basis that the construction of settlements seriously destabilises the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structure of Palestine (details supplied); if any Israeli...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures the Government is taking to monitor financial support for Israeli West Bank settler organisations, considering that it is an offence under the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 (details supplied) to collect or receive funds intending or knowing that they be used for the benefit of a terrorist group...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Elections (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 610. To ask the Minister for Health if a general dental surgeon on grade H of employment is eligible to run in local government elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the extensive waiting lists to receive gender-affirming healthcare at the gender clinic in St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown (details supplied); if there are plans to employ more gender-affirming healthcare professionals in this facility or others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19073/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm the timeline for the completion of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18527/24]