Results 14,241-14,260 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (7 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 7 December 2017, if he has received a full report into complaints his Department received regarding conditions at a location (details supplied); if so, if all appropriate actions to remedy the identified defects has been addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6229/18]
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Plans are well under way for a national demonstration on 7 April on the housing and homelessness crisis and the shambles of this and the previous Government's policies that created the crisis. Groups such as the Peter McVerry Trust, Focus Ireland, Simon Community, housing and community groups, trade unions and many of the Opposition political parties are mobilising for that protest and...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am afraid the Tánaiste is the one who is driven by blind ideology. In the past couple of weeks, I had to deal with somebody who has been on the housing list for 19 years and who has just been evicted from a HAP tenancy, which is supposed to be one of the Tánaiste's housing solutions. She will now be driven back into another HAP, which is insecure. The Tánaiste is...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: HAP does not work. The approved housing bodies, AHB, and off-balance sheet plan is now in serious trouble. When will the Tánaiste get it?
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to return to something the State did for decades, building council houses.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Answer the question about the AHBs.
- Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fifteen thousand.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (8 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties of those in need of home care packages; if his attention has further been drawn to the difficulties many have in sourcing these packages and that many of the packages granted are for less hours than would be appropriate to the need; if his attention has been further drawn to the fact this shortfall in hours...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (8 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Health if he has satisfied himself that those in need of home care are able to access this care in a timely manner and that this care is adequate to meet their needs in view of the reliance on private companies to deliver home care packages; if an audit of these services has been carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6090/18]
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government states the Government will listen to ideas from others about how to deal with the housing and homelessness crisis. When it introduced legislation on rent certainty we told the Government the measures would not control rents. We stated it would be necessary to set rents at affordable levels and introduced legislation to achieve this objective, which the...
- Order of Business (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They could not be any worse.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his planned meetings with foreign Heads of State over the next two months. [5692/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Pretty much every week that goes by, the US President, Donald Trump, provides us with further evidence of the threat he represents to the world, peace, the environment and whole swathes of the world's population. I assume the Taoiseach will meet Donald Trump on St. Patrick's Day in the White House. I would prefer if he did not and made it clear why he should not but I wonder whether he has...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The guy is mad and has mad people in his Government-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but the madness is threatening peace in the Middle East and the global environment. How is the Taoiseach going to make a statement against these sort of crazy policies?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach was asked about Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are still 36 seconds.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Taoiseach about Trump.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked about-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Feb 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Or Washington. The Taoiseach was asked about Washington. What does he have to say?