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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 272. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she supports permanently increasing both child benefit and qualified child payments in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37620/24]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just find it odd that the list was agreed in advance.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning Cara Darmody committed to protest every week from now on unless the Government fully and immediately takes action to vindicate the rights of children with additional needs. It needs to give her those commitments and undertake those actions. I promised the parents of a child named Frankie that I would mention him. He is four-and-a-half years old. He has autism. He has global...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe the Tánaiste will talk to Cara.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that section 39 workers who are funded by her Department were excluded from the pay restoration agreement between the Workplace Relations Commission and the HSE, and therefore have not received said pay restoration; if she commits to ensuring that section 39 workers funded by her Department receive pay restoration; and if he will make a...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. The Government has unprecedented resources at its disposal that could have delivered a transformative budget to resolve the housing catastrophe the country is facing, address the crisis in the health service and the cost-of-living crisis and eradicate poverty. Instead of doing that, it has given us a splurge of one-off...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disgraceful.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has 25 seconds.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fair bit of latitude.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To my mind if we are going to put any kind of stamp duty to try to deter these profit-driven investment funds from bulk buying properties, it should be 100%. Otherwise we are wasting our time. That is what it should be because there is nothing good about these investment funds bulk buying homes. It is disgraceful that apartments are not included. Most of what is being built at the moment...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take in relation to the increasing reports of no-shows of the No. 59 bus (details supplied); if a report on this service over the past two years will be provided, including whether fines have been paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39062/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he will take to alleviate the pressure at a centre (details supplied) which has resulted in one of the residents being moved to another centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39063/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, rather than moving the Ukrainian families from a location (details supplied), he will engage with the owners who would like to continue to accommodate these families and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39174/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I contacted the Minister some time ago about this case. On 7 October, 29 residents, including ten children, six family groups and two additional married couples, all of whom are Ukrainians fleeing the war and are living in a former commercial building in the Blackrock-Stillorgan area, will have to leave. They have been there since Christmas 2022. The children are at school, many, if not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a deadline looming and what we are doing about it is not clear to the community people supporting the residents and the residents because it is next Monday. It is very instructive to look at who these residents are in terms of the employment in which they are engaged. One is a pharmacist assistant, one is a lab worker in UCD, one is a construction worker, one is a carpenter, one is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds positive and I will relay back what the Minister is saying but why bring problems upon or put extra pressure on himself or discommode these people and the local community when it is not necessary? Hopefully, that solution will work. I know that in terms of contacting the Department of Social Protection about rent supplement, that has not been fully processed. Perhaps the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not for tourism.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel's ongoing genocidal, year-long massacre in Gaza and now its savage assault on Lebanon have triggered a terrifying escalation of conflict and violence that threatens to engulf the entire Middle East. It is worth saying that the state that is guilty of this massacre in Gaza and that is attacking Lebanon has nuclear weapons and has refused to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will see. Why does the Government still refuse to pass that Bill? Why does it not ban all overflights of weapons being carried by Israel? The Government denied that such flights were happening but now we know that they were happening in Irish airspace. Why does it not ban all flights carrying weapons through Shannon Airport? Why does it refuse to condemn the United States for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the US military to use Shannon when it is up to its neck in the crimes that Israel is committing in Gaza and Lebanon and which are now threatening to escalate into an all-out regional war?