Results 7,561-7,580 of 26,897 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Administration (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 82. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide details of the discretion that is available to community welfare officers in the area of rent allowance and rent caps in view of the fact that a crisis is developing as a result of dramatically increasing rents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30932/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payments (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views that as the changes in entitlement to one-parent family payment as they are now being phased in are having a particularly adverse impact on lone parents who are working part-time and may impact on their housing and force them out of work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30931/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Students (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 142. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding or fees the Irish Council for International Students receives from his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30999/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that some insurance companies are engaging in excessive profiteering and price hikes in premiums (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31000/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level an honours leaving certificate in Irish is equivalent to on the European Common Framework of Reference for Languages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30998/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reverse the decision to remove the compulsory status of CSPE in the new junior cycle curriculum in view of the fact that Ireland has an obligation to provide human rights education as a result of various United Nations Conventions to which the Irish State is a party; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31005/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 336. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will respond to claims by small and medium enterprises and sole traders that they are being disadvantaged in the awarding of public service tenders due to bureaucratic barriers to even making an application which would contravene the Government's stated policy of fostering and assisting SME's; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Death Certificates (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there has been any progress in the consideration being given to the introduction of a shortened version of a death certificate, omitting the cause of death when the death is death by suicide; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31009/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Policy (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 422. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide full disclosure of the terms under which the State seaweed processing company, Arramara Teoranta, was sold to Acadian Seaplants; and for this disclosure to include the sum for which the company was sold. [31487/14]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Development Policy (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the sale of Arramara Teoranta was not put out to tender; the reason Údarás advised an Oireachtas joint subcommittee to regulate the industry even as it was trying to dispose of Arramara; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31489/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 436. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his response is to the recent adjudication by UNECE, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, which found that the Irish NREAP, national renewable energy action plan, is in breach of international legal obligations; and that the EU has failed in its obligation to ensure the Irish NREAP complied with its legal...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: State Bodies (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 437. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will intervene with An Post to ensure that its human resources department complies with the dignity in the workplace and bullying and harassment booklet distributed to all staff members in view of the fact that a member of staff who provided medical evidence and evidence of hospital admission was accused of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 476. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the origins of the water meters purchased by Irish Water; the manufacturer; the way the source was chosen; the quality control measures; the guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31010/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Procurement Regulations (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 488. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of the tendering of the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme, if he is aware of European Directive 2014/24/EU and Article 76 which states (details supplied); and his views that the SICAP tender complies with this directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31183/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Community (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 489. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the conditions for the continuation of community development work with Travellers by maintaining existing funding for Traveller organisations by top-slicing proposed SICAP funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31184/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Traveller Community (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the list of cuts to Traveller specific supports (details supplied); his views on the seemingly disproportionate harshness of these cuts as the cut to expenditure in last year's budget was 4.5%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31185/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 511. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council will hear the results of its foreshore application for the baths site in Dún Laoghaire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31485/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 512. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding Dublin Array's foreshore application for a wind farm in Dublin Bay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31486/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Equipment (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 533. To ask the Minister for Defence the reason his Department is planning to spend €4 million on upgrading the Irish Army air defence missile system in view of the fact that the army has stated it is unlikely the missile system will be used to take out enemy aircraft at a time where funds are so urgently needed in areas such as health, education, social welfare and so on; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Seaweed Harvesting (15 Jul 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his estimate is of the potential value of the seaweed industry here in view of the fact that it is currently estimated to be worth €18 million per annum; his views on the potential number of employees that the industry could support, in view of the fact that the industry currently employs 1,853 persons; if both the revenue...