Results 141-160 of 27,063 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Anti-Racism Measures (28 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 20 May 2025, the specific individuals or organisations that raised concerns with his Department or the Government ahead of the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism (details supplied). [27887/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Consultations (28 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 13 May 2025, to confirm that notwithstanding expertise available in agencies under his remit than there are no technical and scientific units directly within his Department specifically tasked with assessing environmental and climate claims for the development of departmental and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (28 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 388. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify the position of a person (details provided) that needs a revision hip surgery following an unsuccessful surgery in 2019; if she will take steps to ensure that this is carried out as soon as possible to relieve the huge pain the person continues to experience six years later; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27890/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether there is accommodation in the Irish-Palestinian scholarship programme (IPSP) for individuals, who have been unable to complete their secondary education in Palestine owing to genocide and humanitarian disaster but wish to apply for a scholarship in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26736/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether there is accommodation in the Irish-Palestinian scholarship programme (IPSP) for individuals, who have been unable to complete their secondary education in Palestine owing to genocide and humanitarian disaster but wish to apply for a scholarship in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26736/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Anti-Racism Measures (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 117. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 20 May 2025, whether through the IHRA working definition of antisemitism the State has endorsed the position that criticism of Israel is only legitimate when it concerns actions of the government of Israel and that therefore endorsed that criticism of the State's constitutional arrangements and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Agreements (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade notwithstanding any letters, speeches or communications expressing support for a review of the EU-Israel Association Agreement, whether the Government has brought any formal proposals to meetings of any EU institutions equivalent to those formally tabled by the Dutch government, or formally requested such proposals be included as an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to reports (details supplied) that the government of Hungary has vetoed sanctions against extremist settlers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories at the European Union level, and therefore that these sanctions, and any further sanctions in relation to Israel that are supported by the Government, are unlikely to be agreed at the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to introduce legislation regarding safety issues around e-bikes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26803/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 356. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 512 of 25 February 2025, his views on whether it is consistent with the aims of the Pathways to Work 2021-2025 strategy, namely that whether on welfare, in employment or a combination of both, a person can be assured of a minimum basic income and a person in employment will always...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 359. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered that income limits for social housing eligibility act as a “welfare cliff” (details supplied) that disincentivise eligible individuals from taking up employment or applying for promotion. [26723/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 360. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of any engagements with his colleagues in the Department of Social Protection or the Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment regarding the impact of social housing income limits on the behaviours of individuals who are on the housing list or preparing to apply for the list; if, in particular, the limits...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 361. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline, given that social housing is a key part of the architecture of social protection in Ireland, his views on whether his Department’s approach to social housing income limits is consistent with the aims of the Pathways to Work 2021-2025 strategy; namely, that whether on welfare, in employment or a combination...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 362. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of any research, completed or ongoing, concerning the impact of social housing income limits on the behaviours of individuals who are on the housing list or preparing to apply for the list; whether, in particular, the limits disincentivise taking up employment or applying for payments to which an individual may...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 363. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether legislation will be progressed indexing income limits for social housing eligibility to either inflation, the minimum wage, the median wage, average industrial wage, or lower quartile wage to reflect the decline in purchasing power over time of incomes that were previously considered to be too high for a person to be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that there are income gaps in the available housing schemes operated by his Department and by local authorities whereby a person’s income may be too high for social housing eligibility and at the same time too low for any available cost rental options or to take advantage of schemes for first-time...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 365. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider abolishing the income limits for social housing eligibility and fund a universally accessible social housing system through a scheme of differential rents. [26729/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 436. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the charges that will be levied against members of the auto-enrolment scheme, split between different categories (details supplied); if there will be any other charges either on members or on their employers; if charge levels have yet to be decided, to indicate when prospective members will be informed of charge levels...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 585. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a recent no confidence vote by an association (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26783/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 586. To ask the Minister for Health her views on reports that ineffective leadership and governance presents risks to the governance of service delivery to patients, the management of staff wellbeing and the potential for psychosocial harm in the National Ambulance Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26784/25]