Results 26,601-26,620 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase the number of special education teachers, special needs assistants, and special classes to ensure that every child with special or additional needs receives appropriate supports in their preferred school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase investment in education per student to at least a level equal to OECD average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase recruitment and retention of primary and secondary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the hot meals programme menus cater for all food allergies and if the ingredients and cooking methods reach the standards for healthy eating as per the standards outlined by the WHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8608/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail any cooperation between his Department and NATO, including, but not limited to, PESCO and the EU Common Security and Defence Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6081/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [6429/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet [6430/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (5 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing individuals whose medical conditions require the use of extensive medical equipment to claim flat-rate relief for electricity, as those who use kidney dialysis machines currently do. [9957/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to meet the demands for pay restoration and pay parity for section 39 workers given the ballot for industrial action by section 39 workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10164/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Health if she will immediately lift the pay and numbers strategy to ensure that all health services can be staffed to safe and adequate levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10163/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [9489/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Central Bank in its latest quarterly report issued another damning indictment of the catastrophic failure of Government housing policy. One aspect of it that relates to this subcommittee is the fact that deficits in water infrastructure are now a major impediment to delivering the volume of housing necessary to address the housing crisis. I wonder if there is any joined-up thinking...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Gas is worse than coal.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it is not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his attendance at the informal EU leaders' retreat on 3 February 2025. [9490/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach goes first.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The death toll in Gaza in the past two days is estimated to be 1,000. Hundreds have been slaughtered in their beds by Israel. Will the Taoiseach admit and condemn the fact that the horrific slaughter of 50,000 or so people over the past 15 months could not have been done without the weapons provided by the United States under Biden previously and now Trump, whose ethnic cleansing plan for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because of the complicity of European and western countries with the slaughter in Gaza.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Russia is a brutal imperialist power. Is that what the Taoiseach is looking for?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And sell weapons to Israel.