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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Questions Nos.1151 and 1152 of 4 November 2025, to confirm that there is no strategic policy in place at Departmental level to bring down household costs and environmental impact of households benefitting from the additional needs payment for the purchase of white goods, by promoting the purchase of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (13 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 365. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to respond to concerns that IPAS is providing an unsafe environment for residents at a centre (details supplied). [62380/25]

Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The least well-off and most vulnerable in our society have been absolutely hammered by the cost-of-living crisis that has been inflicted on them over the last number of years. It is very important to say that the cost-of-living crisis is not like the weather. It does not just happen. The other side of the cost-of-living crisis is profiteering by the people who increase the prices; it is as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is, yes, the means test.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While I was getting my treatment in St. Luke's, I met a very nice woman called Shirley who brought up her daughter Lauren's case with me. Lauren subsequently wrote to me. Lauren lives with her and has a life-long disability condition that means she is unfit for work. She had previously been on domiciliary care allowance, then on disability allowance, but she then got married. She lives at...

Ceisteanna - Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will I send them to you?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 36. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on disability will next meet. [61676/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to draw the Taoiseach's attention to the human consequences of the Government bending to the far-right groups that are screaming for mass deportations. Bilal Butt has been here for 19 years. For the past 15 years - as long as he was allowed - he has been working and paying tax. I know him personally, and he is a lovely man. He is married with two kids. One daughter is ten and his...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tomorrow the National Bus and Rail Union will be balloting all its members over industrial action on our buses. SIPTU has also indicated it plans to support the action of bus drivers. I have not got time to go into the detail other than to say it is about the harassment of drivers by Dublin Bus over profiles, key performance indicators, KPIs, and a "Press it" box system. The only thing...

Ceisteanna - Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on justice, migration and social affairs will next meet. [61675/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I propose an amendment?

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will join with the Taoiseach's fight.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his engagements with the ambassador and government of Tanzania in relation to recent reports that authorities have killed unarmed citizens in that country (details supplied). [61695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc Activities (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 814. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on reports that Teagasc will be taking part in joint projects with Israeli counterparts (details supplied) [61859/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1022. To ask the Minister for Health if she will roll out the inclusion of a test for spinal muscular atrophy by November 2025, the second anniversary of the announcement that it would be added (details supplied). [61601/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Domestic Violence (12 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1103. To ask the Minister for Health whether there are domestic violence officers in hospital emergency departments in most hospitals nationwide. [62036/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been saying that for some time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is good to be back. It is particularly good to be back in the aftermath of the successful campaign of Catherine Connolly. I congratulate her in her position as our new President. It is also good to be back on the day that a socialist gets elected in New York. Signs of hope and portents of the future.