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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Offices (28 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach for a list of all thematic units and programme offices administered by the Department of the Taoiseach (details supplied). [27826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Anti-Racism Measures (28 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 190 of 20 May 2025, the specific individuals or organisations that raised concerns with his Department or the Government ahead of the adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism (details supplied). [27887/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Consultations (28 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 297 of 13 May 2025, to confirm that notwithstanding expertise available in agencies under his remit than there are no technical and scientific units directly within his Department specifically tasked with assessing environmental and climate claims for the development of departmental and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (28 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 388. To ask the Minister for Health if she will clarify the position of a person (details provided) that needs a revision hip surgery following an unsuccessful surgery in 2019; if she will take steps to ensure that this is carried out as soon as possible to relieve the huge pain the person continues to experience six years later; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27890/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will leave the IHRA given the organisation's hosting in recent days of Benjamin Netanyahu who is considered by the Government to be guilty of committing genocide (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29554/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether it appropriate for Ireland's official definition of antisemitism to come from an organisation that in recent days hosted Benjamin Netanyahu, where he claimed that the position supported by the Government, that Israel is deliberately halting the entry of aid into Gaza, is antisemitic misinformation; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to justify the adoption of a definition of antisemitism formulated with the input of the Israeli state considering his own comments that the Israeli state instrumentalises accusations of antisemitism to undermine support for human rights (details supplied). [30482/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the legislative basis that exists for Ireland's policy of neutrality other than the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006, otherwise known as the triple lock. [29714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline in detail what the implications were to the change in the status of Palestine (details supplied); his views on the symbolic implications of this change in status and any practical consequences for Irish policy. [29823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to justify the adoption of the Global Guidelines Against Antisemitism considering the input of a government that the Irish Government considers to be guilty of the crime of genocide in the formulation of the guidelines via the EU-Israel Seminar (details supplied). [30481/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 27 May 2025, wherein he claimed that it is not for him to make determinations about what qualifies as antisemitic and further to correspondences with the Minister for Justice (details supplied) wherein the Minister claimed that it is not for him to describe the details or status of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 27 May 2025, wherein he claimed that it is not for him to make determinations about what qualifies as antisemitic under the IHRA definition of antisemitism, how he expects officials in public bodies and civil society to make determinations about what should be considered antisemitic under the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason excepting the example of the IHRA definition of antisemitism there are definitions, legally binding or otherwise, of discrimination are generally not officially adopted with respect to particular ethnic and religious groups; the reason, excepting the example of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, Irish law and policy documents...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fisheries Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the work of the Minister of State with Responsibility for the Marine in light of reports of frightening decline in Atlantic fish stocks and the contribution of commercial fishing to this decline (details supplied). [30103/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the impact that several recent bank holiday weekend DART closures have had on passengers visiting coastal areas and local businesses reliant on footfall for weekend trade; while it is understood that necessary works have to be carried out, if he will meet with Iarnród Eireann and other stakeholders to discuss a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 389. To ask the Minister for Finance whether an amendment is required to the Criminal Activity (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 to allow him to exercise his powers under section 42 of the act to impose restrictive measures against Israeli settlers and any businesses that finance illegal settlements without the support of the Council of the European Union. [29065/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of candidates the Public Appointments Service intends to interview as part of the open and interdepartmental competition for assistant principals before September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30118/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Inquiries (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 461. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will confirm with his counterpart in the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications whether an individual’s complaint (details supplied) belongs with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission or with Coimisiún na Meán.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29671/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 696. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware that many rural and urban postmasters are reporting that their post offices are under threat of closure due to inadequate funding (details supplied); if he will assure postmasters that he will agree to their union’s demands for increased funding to secure the future of post offices and the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Film Industry (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 719. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will work with the Minister for Social Protection, to consider the precarious nature of work in the film and television industry and find ways in which his Department and the Department of Social Protection can respond quickly and effectively to support freelance and creative workers who experience genuinely...