Results 21,021-21,040 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps Mr. O’Rourke or Mr. Coleman will comment on it. This really is the truth about cost rental, namely, we cannot control the rents for cost rental on public land. We cannot control them because they are linked to the cost of construction and the LDA does not know what the cost of construction is going to be and it is dependent on the market to dictate that. That is a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 786. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to offer predicted grades for leaving certificate students in 2022 or other measures for exam year students that may compensate for the loss of education they have experienced over the previous two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1302/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1054. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason many persons who were on the pandemic unemployment payment and being transitioned to the jobseeker’s allowance before 7 December 2021, even though their industry had not returned to pre-pandemic levels and were then unable to return due to the 7 December 2021 restrictions meant their industry would not...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1211. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 516 of 14 December 2021, the number of applications that are going to multiple applications and the number going to individuals, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [63233/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1588. To ask the Minister for Health when the EU Digital COVID Certificates will be updated to reflect the booster vaccines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1940. To ask the Minister for Health the total cost to the Exchequer from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to date of arrangements made with private hospitals and private health providers for use of private hospitals and healthcare capacity to deal with Covid-19 and non-Covid care during the pandemic; if he will provide as much detail as possible in relation to the conditions of these...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The €100 to offset the absolutely shocking increases in energy and fuel prices that people will be struck with over the coming weeks is pathetically inadequate. I am already getting reports of people getting energy bills that have increased by 125% in the bills that are going to drop in the next few weeks. The Government needs to do more than it is doing. We have repeatedly urged it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government take the sort of radical action that is necessary?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will talk about that later.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not side with NATO on it.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national risk assessment published by his Department. [3608/22]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will mention the risk of people dying unnecessarily during the winter, as happened in this country even before the energy price hikes. Every winter, 1,500 to 2,000 people, most of whom are elderly and less well off, die as a result of the impact of winter, the cost of heating and so on. That situation will get exponentially worse in light of the current price hikes. I again ask whether...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There were a couple of other questions.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first year of the shared island initiative. [3609/22]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One thing among others that people in the South and the North share is fuel poverty. The Taoiseach did not have a chance to respond in the last round of questions but I hope he will this time. Fuel poverty in the North is 22%. It is only 13% in England. The ESRI estimates one in six in the South suffers from fuel poverty. A RED C poll last year found that 19% of people turn the heat off...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still did not get an answer. That is two different rounds where I did not get an answer.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On price caps.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the European Council. [3610/22]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vladimir Putin is a thug and autocrat who has done very nasty things recently to working people in Kazakhstan, has waged a bloody war in Chechnya and is now flexing his muscles in Ukraine, so of course we should condemn what Russia is doing, but why is there no condemnation from a country that is supposed to be neutral of a clear agenda by NATO to expand eastwards and escalate military...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.