Results 21,861-21,880 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (14 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will grant a further extension to the vehicle registration licence time limit for the replacement of taxi vehicles given the lack of availability of electric vehicles currently and the substantial loss of earnings for taxi drivers over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30731/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 929. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the appeal by a school (details supplied) to reverse the decision to reduce the number of teachers as a result of special education teacher allocations and the number of incoming outgoing diagnosed children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28827/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Parental Leave (14 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 930. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider making the temporary changes to the way that parental leave will be taken as laid out in information note TC 0003/2022 permanent to allow more flexibility for parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28852/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1829. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he will take to remedy the lack of a diagnosis for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30487/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1872. To ask the Minister for Health if the lack of service provision by the disability network team for a child (details supplied) will be examined and remedied; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30605/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Union (16 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 40. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessments that are being carried out to establish whether the objectives for quality employment and training and the culture test are being met for the section 481 tax relief; if European Union conditions in relation to State aid for arts and culture state support are being met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Union (16 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the recent correspondence from EU Commissioner Vestager to the Irish Government in relation to State aid to the Irish film industry; if it is failing to meet the culture test for such State aid and his views on whether it may also not be meeting the industry development test similarly required for such State aid to the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Inflation Rate (16 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the plans that he will put in place to ensure that the take-home pay of workers in the private sector is increased at least in line with inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31323/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 74. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessments that are being carried out to establish whether the research and development tax credit is achieving its objective to stimulate same; if it is the most effective way to achieve this objective; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31320/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Inflation Rate (16 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that he is planning to put in place to address inflation and wealth inequality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cost of Living Issues (16 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the new public sector pay agreement will ensure that all public sector workers get a pay rise in line with inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31314/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (16 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to address the recruitment and retention crisis across the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31315/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (16 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a complete list of all buildings that are being leased for use as public buildings; the rents that are being paid on these; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31321/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht If she will support a boxing club (details supplied), a hugely successful community boxing club with a person and Olympic hopefuls, that still does not have a permanent home and is operating in utterly inadequate facilities and to work with Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to assist them as a matter of urgency; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures she intends to take to improve the conditions of employment of workers and performers in the Irish Film Industry; her views given the large subsidies going to the producers in that sector, that it is meeting the requirements for quality employment and training and the industry development test; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider raising the maximum contribution of housing adaptation grants towards building costs given the huge rise in the cost of building works making it impossible for persons in need of these grants to make up the difference between the maximum grant and the cost of the adaptation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the reports in the media of a 35% increase in the discretionary housing assistance payment limit and changes to rules around local authorities ability to purchase homes with sitting HAP tenants who are in receipt of an NTQ on grounds of sale, if he will provide details regarding both these initiatives, including...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the numbers of those in need of housing across all local authorities; if these figures will include those that are on housing assistance payment and rental accommodation scheme transfer lists as these tenancies are not secure and permanent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (21 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 741. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the application for the fair deal scheme for a person (details supplied) is taking so long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31875/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Because of the refusal of the Tánaiste’s Government, the previous Government he was part of and the previous Government before that to raise the income threshold for eligibility for social housing, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, recently pointed out that since 2011, when the Tánaiste entered Government, the number of households eligible for social housing...