Results 11,981-12,000 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The application was submitted by an Irish-registered doctor, which is what the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, told us last November is required.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social policy and public service reform last met. [8776/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the sub-committee discussed the contributory State pension? In 2012, when Deputy Burton was a Minister in the previous Government she made changes to the contributory pension scheme. At the time we were told the new system was fairer and would reward those with more contributions but in reality it has turned out to be a massive rip off with 36,000 pensioners - the number is rising all...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which schools are judged for DEIS status; if he is satisfied that all schools in disadvantaged areas are receiving the support and resources they need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10503/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The shame and obscenity of child and family poverty, deprivation and now homelessness has increased dramatically and consistently in the years since Fine Gael has been in government. One way the Minister can try to address that is to give resources to pupils in disadvantaged schools but the criteria for allocating DEIS status are not doing that for schools in my area. Even where schools...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Gaelscoil Phádraig, in Loughlinstown, was refused DEIS status on its application. This is in an area where every other school in the area has DEIS status because it is an area of high disadvantage. The Minister's criteria are not fit for purpose in judging these matters. For example, because they take into account where the children live, children who are living in emergency...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Minister to review the decision on Gaelscoil Phádraig. It is in a disadvantaged area which nobody would doubt. The children in the school suffer disadvantage and have been shafted for 20 years. Even schools with DEIS status are not being resourced properly. The Holy Family school in Dunedin Park in Monkstown Farm applied for permission to undertake a summer works programme...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am looking for fairness.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Disadvantaged Status (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister look at the schools mentioned?
- Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will probably not take all my time because I have to rush off to a Right2Water meeting at 6 o'clock.
- Insurance Industry: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I know, and still some people want to charge for it. It is extraordinary, is it not? I support the proposals in the Fianna Fáil motion relating to the collapse of Setanta Enterprise Insurance and generally unregulated motor insurance firms and the measures needed to deal with the consequences. In particular, I support the importance of compensating those who have been...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the process and timeframe for the Government's decision on the options laid out in the Cassells report on funding for third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10455/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for Music Generation; if the success of this initiative will result in similar initiatives for other art forms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10483/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to restoring maintenance grants for postgraduate students; the cost for doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10454/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider his decision to give the Catholic Church the final decision over which patron to divest schools to, in view of the existing disproportionate influence the church has over primary education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10457/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reconsider the proposed divestment process and establish an independent working group with representatives of all the patron bodies to formulate a transparent process that puts parents' wishes at the centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10456/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (1 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a re-entry visa for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10652/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In 2012, to a barrage of heckling and laughter from the Government's side, I warned during Leaders' Questions that tenement conditions were on the way back to Dublin city. Those conditions have now manifested. Today, the Simon Communities-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Programme for Government commitments and legislation on dealing with the housing issue. Today, the Simon Communities have confirmed that none of this situation is necessary because Ireland has the housing stock to deal with the tenement conditions and obscene homelessness. The Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, is looking into all of these matters, given his comments on compulsory purchases...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Mar 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are 55,000 in the cities.