Results 16,961-16,980 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children in ASD units receive follow-up assessments and checks to ensure their educational needs are met; the way in which this is monitored and reported; if separate funding is made available for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42589/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the impact the cut to the education capital budget will have in view of the 471 schools that are in temporary buildings and numerous other schools promised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42588/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a child currently has access to a SNA but is told that reassessment is required to continue to qualify for access, but the assessments are not within six months due to resource and staff shortages, the way in which the child is to be supported in school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42653/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools that are part of the school inclusion model, that is, the 75 schools in counties Kildare, Wicklow and south County Dublin areas currently participating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42654/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Staff (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if staff in NEPS who take leave or maternity leave are replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42656/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments Waiting Times (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the length of time children who suffer a bereavement are expected to wait on waiting lists to be seen and assessed by psychologists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42657/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children being home schooled at primary level; if they are all in receipt of the home tuition grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42658/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if all school age teams have a full complement of specialists to allow multidisciplinary assessment and interventions; if, in particular, a team (details supplied) has the complement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42649/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which children are prioritised for the school age team assessment; if it follows the national policy for prioritisation for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42650/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Health if assessments of needs by school age teams have a long waiting list; if parents can have private assessments done and still avail of interventions and supports from the appropriate specialists on the teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42651/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if each child has to have a second full multidisciplinary assessment after having one with the early intervention team when moving to primary school when the child reaches the age of five; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42652/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (17 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Health if staff in the early intervention and school age teams are replaced while on leave and maternity leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42655/19]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand and find it absolutely correct that we need to make time on Thursday to address the issue of people voting when they were not present and the investigation that is being undertaken. I accept the need to debate that this week. However, I also think that this critical discussion which has to happen this week to restore the integrity of the voting system should not overshadow...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should take the opportunity to celebrate a major victory for women's rights and the LGBT community in the North. It was the result of the decriminalisation of abortion and the changes that vindicated the right to marriage equality, which took place despite the bizarre attempts to block them by the dinosaurs - there is no other way of describing them - of the DUP and elements of unionism....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They do not always have a choice.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit to the United States of America for the recent UN meeting. [39637/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to Los Angeles and his efforts to boost the film industry here. [42162/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the past decade or so, approximately 3 million US troops have passed through Shannon Airport to prosecute disastrous wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have had rendition flights illegally kidnapping people for torture using our airports, and we have had the US military transporting support to Saudi Arabia to carry out its horrific attacks in Yemen. The US war machine visits destruction...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we not have a brief response?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I stuck to the time.