Results 8,001-8,020 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Consumer Rights (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans being considered to refund flights already booked even in circumstances in which the flights are still operating, given that persons are requested not to go on holiday; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9509/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Referendum Campaigns (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the referendum to ensure public ownership of water will take place; if he will address the concerns of local government staff on plans regarding staff transfers to Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason 60 social housing units in the social housing stock of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council remain unoccupied despite a large social housing waiting list; if additional funding will be provided to ensure that these homes are prepared for new tenancies and occupied by April 2021; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 306. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if planning application deadlines should be extended given the restrictions that are in place making it less likely that notices will be seen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9754/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 307. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the options for social housing applicants to transfer to other local authority areas; if so, the way in which these transfers will be applied for and processed; if he is planning a new rural resettlement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9758/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current law with regard to evictions during Covid-19 and the way in which it might be amended if there is a change in the level under which it is operating; if there is a difference between eviction for arrears due to loss of earnings due to Covid-19 and evictions for other reasons; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 349. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when he expects embassies and consular activities to resume for members of the public who need in-person appointments and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9448/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to facilitate students of the leaving certificate or other years who feel they cannot return to the classroom with the community transmission still at high levels due to an underlying condition or a vulnerable family member; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9453/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 791. To ask the Minister for Health if emigration is considered essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9507/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 823. To ask the Minister for Health if Irish citizens are permitted to travel to the UK for family reunification purposes; if partners are considered family; if family reunification is considered essential travel; if An Garda Síochána accept that this is essential travel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9644/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Childcare Services (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 843. To ask the Minister for Health the options available for front-line workers with primary school age children in relation to childcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9729/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (24 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the options available for assessment of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9831/21]

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. Since the outbreak of the pandemic in March of last year, I have been advocating on behalf of two sectors that have been hit particularly hard - devastated - by the pandemic and pandemic measures. For the most part, they still remain excluded from the support schemes that have been set up. I requested that the Tánaiste meet with one of those...

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the tourism business continuity scheme.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will move the adjournment. I hope we can mobilise popular opinion to defeat this legislation before it gets passed. I hope we can actually force in legislation that will take the land off the speculators and vultures. That is the action we really need to take.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that. Listening to this debate, all I can say is "wow". I do not know whether to laugh or cry when I hear what Government spokespeople are saying. Of course, the Minister has left the building, like Elvis Presley, but the boys are back in town - that is all I can say. The boys are back in town, as Phil Lynott put it - Fianna Fáil and the developers. I find it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not delay or call a vote because I know people want to have Questions on Promised Legislation. However, I want to say something about the Government's refusal to compromise with the Opposition. We said at the Business Committee that all we needed was approximately an extra six hours in the week to accommodate the health debate we are looking for on the Covid-19 crisis, questions to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The slots for questions to An Taoiseach are gone.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we have been stating for weeks now, it is completely unacceptable that the Government is using the Covid crisis to shield itself from legitimate questioning and accountability on a range of pressing issues for people in this country by limiting time for debates, questions to An Taoiseach and, critically, the pandemic, thus breaking a commitment that there would be a standing debate on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a number of new heads in the Bill dealing with how it is proposed to involve private investors in public land and definitions of affordable housing, none of which has been through pre-legislative scrutiny, as is required under the legislative process.