Results 201-220 of 27,063 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of the number of architects currently employed by local authorities, broken down by local authority; the number of vacant local authority architect posts there are, broken down by local authority; and for details of any plans to increase the number employed. [23989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 763. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of the qualifications required to take up a post as a local authority medical adjudicator. [23990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 835. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an overview of data collected on the effectiveness of labour activation policies administered through Intreo centres; the frequency with which Intreo centres successfully match service users with employment; the data on the type of employment generally recommended by Intreo centres; the data on individuals' earnings...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 837. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether an organisation’s working definition (details supplied) of antisemitism supersedes the description of racism given in the National Action Plan Against Racism, namely that racism has its roots in colonialism, oppression and domination, given that the organisation’s working definition of antisemitism...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 838. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is responsible for the implementation of an organisation’s working definition of antisemitism (details supplied). [24470/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 839. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality given that the Government has adopted an organisation’s working definition of antisemitism (details supplied), whether the illustrative examples of antisemitism appended to this definition should be considered to have also been adopted by the Government; if this is not the case, how he will ensure that this is clear to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 840. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for details of engagements between his Department and an organisation (details supplied) or other anti-racist groups ahead of the Government’s adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and since the Government’s adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. [24472/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 847. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is no refugee programme in place for Palestinians, equivalent to the Afghan admission programme, considering the acute humanitarian crisis in Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23269/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 915. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 728 of 8 April 2025, whether it remains his Department’s position that wool is a low-carbon textile (details supplied); and whether he will offer any clarity on the relative carbon impact of wool compared with other textiles. [23203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1000. To ask the Minister for Health for an overview of the primary and secondary legislation regulating medical advertising and labelling, in particular the legislation regulating what health and medical claims sellers can make about their products. [23187/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1001. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the innovation and economic growth section of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland; whether she views the “diverse range of clinical disease characteristics” in Ireland as an opportunity for private profit-making; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23193/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1002. To ask the Minister for Health in light of reports that individuals’ genomic data may be at risk when private companies responsible for generating and storing the data are in distress (details supplied), the reason the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine in Ireland makes no reference to either retaining genomic services in public ownership or bringing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1003. To ask the Minister for Health in light of the National Strategy for Accelerating Genetic and Genomic Medicine’s commitment to building the genetics and genomics workforce for the future, for details of engagements with the Department of Further Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science regarding raising PhD stipends in the life sciences to the living wage and granting...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1193. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether it is appropriate that there is no national skin cancer screening programme in Ireland at present; if there are any plans to establish such a programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1194. To ask the Minister for Health to estimate the costs of establishing a national skin cancer screening programme. [24378/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1195. To ask the Minister for Health to estimate the current annual costs to the Exchequer of treating skin cancer and related conditions. [24379/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1196. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department or agencies under her remit have conducted any research or analysis on the cost to the Exchequer of delayed detection of skin cancers, in particular, any research or analysis which considers the contribution of the costs to patients of private screening to the delayed detection of skin cancers; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1219. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene in the dispute between the HSE and healthcare workers in relation to the pay and numbers strategy; the discussions she has had regarding the planned industrial action by healthcare workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16064/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Measures (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an overview of the primary and secondary legislation governing school matriculation and university entry in Ireland. [23165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scientific Research (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering any policy measures to remedy the "replication crisis" in the life sciences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23992/25]