Results 26,081-26,100 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 409. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to raise the advisory price limits on the tenant-in-situ scheme for county councils, due to the inflation of house prices in recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36783/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of raising the current social housing income eligibility thresholds by €10,000 per year nationwide, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36740/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the latest figures on the number of households on the HAP and RAS schemes and rent allowance respectively; the cost of each, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36741/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 408. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of households currently privately renting their principal residence; the number of those households that are within the social housing income limits; the number within the cost rental income limits; the number above those limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36742/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the cost-rental tenant-in-situ and the tenant-in-situ programmes, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36958/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a report on the retrofit programme, broken down by local authority, with details of the numbers completed and the plan to retrofit all homes in State stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will put in place a solar panel support scheme for local authority tenants, administered by councils where the council takes on the upfront costs and tenants pay back over a period of time while their bills reduce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36964/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 612. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a new creche in Dún Laoghaire has delayed its opening from September until at least December, despite parents having already paid deposits; and his views on how parents are meant to find appropriate childcare for their children, given the local shortage of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the effective recruitment embargo imposed in St. Michael's Hospital, Dún Laoghaire (details supplied); the reason for such a measure; if he will instruct the hospital group to end this embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36743/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Welfare (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 865. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way the legislation being introduced on 1 October 2024 regarding XL Bully dogs deals with animals that are healthy, have no history of aggression, have been surrendered to a shelter and would otherwise be deemed suitable for re-homing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36407/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How is it that members of the committee-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had no idea who was on the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Normally, the members of the committee go first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It should have been members. In any committee members go first and it does not have to be discussed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the representatives of the OPW for their contribution to this discussion. They are obviously aware that the bike shed scandal has brought the Houses of the Oireachtas, the OPW and the public services into disrepute. People cannot understand how a bike shed could cost the same as a house. I cannot think of any good explanation for why a bike shed would cost more than a house. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not see why the OPW would not have put the shed there. Security concerns have been cited but I do not see what the additional security burden would have been. There is still a security gate between that area and Leinster House itself. Do the witnesses know how much less that would have cost? Would they still be of the view that it is the option we should have gone with? Who made the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to say, as somebody who walks from Agriculture House into Leinster House every single day, I am baffled as to why that would not be a perfectly suitable location.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can Mr. Conlon give us even a rough idea of the difference in cost between that original suggestion and the current location?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe I was. The original suggestion has recently been described in the media as a more cost-effective proposal. Do we have any idea how much more cost-effective it was?