Results 22,761-22,780 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have statements on the thresholds before the end of term?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been asking for this for months.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the COP27 climate change conference. [57447/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Egyptian authorities arrested 1,540 Egyptian people in the weeks just before COP to prevent them organising protests. Thousands of people have been imprisoned and detained. Even when they get judicial orders for their release, they disappear. Alaa Abd El-Fattah has been imprisoned for five years for “spreading fake news”, by which it is meant that he utters words critical...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Ukraine will next meet. [57889/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is pretty clear that the Government is using the appalling war Putin launched in Ukraine, which we all condemn, to move us ever closer to NATO. Last week, I asked why NATO assessors were assessing Irish troops in County Cork-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----in recent weeks and I still have not heard an explanation. These assessors were headed up by a military commander of the US Navy. This follows on from our participation in the Ukraine defence contact group which, according to the US Secretary of Defence, is part of NATO and whose first meeting was held on a NATO base in Germany. It is absolutely clear that the Irish Government is...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What were they doing in Cork then?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With NATO.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I doubt that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He cannot.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [57888/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One terrible aspect of the absolutely dire housing crisis over which the Government is presiding is that people with very serious medical conditions are looking to gain medical priority but waiting months for their cases to be looked at, even though they are in dire situations, clearly because of lack of resources for medical assessment in local authorities. Something needs to be done about...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a massive backlog.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about medical assessment.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the regulations around the back-to-school allowance to ensure that the allowance is available to a parent even when their dependent is in receipt of their own disability payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59284/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the eligibility criteria for fuel allowance to ensure that it is available to all recipients of social welfare payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59283/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Prices (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 173. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the protections that are in place for district heating customers who pre-pay for gas in order to prevent any disconnection of service if they cannot pay their bills this winter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59100/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 246. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that the recent increase of 1% effective from 1 October 2022 under the Building Momentum agreement due to retired civil servants who are on an off-point scale may not be paid until the end of Q1 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59058/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 541. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update and the date on which all Science Foundation Ireland and the Irish Research Council PhDs will receive the promised Q4 €500 payment as specified in Budget 2023 (details supplied); if this date is not in Q4 of 2022 as promised; the reason that led to it being delayed; the reason that this information was not...