Results 18,101-18,120 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 836. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of reducing the DPS threshold to €50 and €100, respectively [25507/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost of abolishing accident and emergency charges. [25510/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 838. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost to reinstate the 2008 dental treatment services scheme [25511/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 845. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of Covid-19 cases nationally including the sectors and industries that the persons work in; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25593/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 898. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated cost of planting 125,000 hectares of foresting with a mixture of broad leaf and native species. [25516/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Workers in Debenhams in Blackrock, along with almost 1,000 other workers, were on the picket lines at 6 a.m. this morning. I joined them at approximately 7.30 a.m. They had to go through the immense frustration of watching strike breakers brought in by their former manager. To be honest, most of their disgust was directed at the former manager ushering in these strike breakers. Frankly, I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach meet the Blackrock workers?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [25610/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suspect the suggestion from the Minister with responsibility for climate action, communications networks and transport, Deputy Ryan, that taxi drivers should be removed from bus lanes was some sort of misguided notion about protecting the environment from CO2 emitting vehicles. I have already asked that that proposal be abandoned. I have a positive environmental, climate action proposal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not make them replace their cars next year with CO2emitting cars then. Give them two years. It would be a win-win.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach's engagements with representatives of the Assembly he should consider engaging with our MLA, Gerry Carroll. People Before Profit in the North and South brings a unique perspective that goes back to Connolly and Wolfe Tone on the possibility of uniting Catholic, Protestant and Dissenter in a project to fight for a different type of Ireland. If we look at the reckless...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5 o’clock I am sharing time with Deputies Barry and Paul Murphy. For months, I have been raising the plight of 22,000 taxi drivers whose livelihoods have been devastated by the Covid pandemic. Apart from a little bit of tea and sympathy, this and the previous Government have completely ignored and failed to provide support to them. The taxi drivers who took to the streets in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the financial penalties that will be applied to companies by the NTA as a result of the bus services provided by them not meeting the targets set out in its contract. [25848/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NAMA has made available to developers in loan facilities to complete projects by year up to the end of quarter 2 of 2020. [25841/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount NAMA has paid out to date for repair and maintenance of properties in its portfolio. [25845/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of interest paid on the national debt in 2020 that was contracted since 2008. [25846/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of empty properties and land banks that have not yet been sold with regard to the assets of NAMA; and the negotiations that have taken place to acquire these homes for social and or affordable housing. [25847/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 72. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to safeguard the jobs of the 35,000 persons in the arts and entertainment industry that have been locked out of their employment when they and their families have been waiting six months, in an industry worth €3.5 billion to the economy annually, for a particular plan for their industry; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for the €3.5 billion entertainment industry that employs 35,000 persons; the timeline for the €6 million pilot project; when she expects to publish the findings of this pilot project; and the number of seats she plans to offer to this industry on the planned recovery taskforce. [25743/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme (23 Sep 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applicants on the RAS and HAP housing transfer lists. [25700/20]