Results 61-80 of 26,831 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Meetings (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 374. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to investigate legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Meetings (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 398. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 428. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 480. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why reading programmes such as Reading Recovery and Edmark are promoted by her Department in place of science of reading approaches; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 502. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will respond to reports that the Reading Recovery Programme promoted by her Department has a weaker basis in evidence than science of reading-based approaches; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16969/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when she is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to investigate...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Meetings (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 590. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gender Recognition (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 647. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation has been established (details supplied); if not, when is he planning for this interdepartmental group to start the assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17532/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 729. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether the confidentiality provisions of the International Protection Act 2015 allow individual international protection applicants to grant public representatives formal permission to submit queries related to their applications for international protection; whether the Act allows any Department services to answer queries...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will provide advice and information to two elderly Palestinians (details supplied) who arrived in Ireland in March 2025 and who are currently temporarily accommodated in a hotel; if they will be granted residency status and access to healthcare given their age and medical conditions; the next steps in their...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to media reports (details supplied), whether it remains his Department’s position that wool is a “low carbon” product; the scientific basis there is for such a position; the professional scientific expertise his Department uses to assess claims about the environmental impact of different agricultural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Communications (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Communications (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 844. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1019. To ask the Minister for Health if she has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to investigate legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1083. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to investigate...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1085. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development noting that his Department is listed as a co-lead for Action 4.1 of the 2019-2024 Department of Rural and Community Development five-year strategy (details supplied), to provide updates on this action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17624/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1096. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on Action 4.1 of the 2019-2024 Department's five-year strategy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/25]

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One absolutely key area for giving young people a positive outlet for energies that might otherwise go in worrying or dangerous directions is sport. This also has a great deal of relevance in the context of women and of challenging all the misogyny that one can encounter. One of the positive developments we have seen in the past few years is the tremendous growth in participation in sport,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many, if not most of the people who broadcast the proceedings in this Dáil who work for Oireachtas TV are on precarious, or "if and when" contracts, where they basically do not get paid if the Dáil or the committees are not sitting during Christmas, during the summer and other breaks. Most of these part-time workers earn approximately €12,000 per year. I could not believe...