Results 181-200 of 25,544 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [17960/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach taking the people of this country for fools when he suggests that his plan to dismantle the triple lock is not a full attack on Ireland's neutrality? Whenever he attempts to justify this move he is planning on the triple lock, he refers to Russia. Of course, we all condemn Russia's attack on Ukraine as an indefensible occupation and military aggression. However, at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent visit to Paris. [15146/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Cherrywood is the biggest residential the biggest residential development in the country. It is a new town with more than 8,000 apartments and houses. There are probably between 25,000 and 30,000 people living there. Many apartments and houses are being built and millions of euro of public money has gone into it but Hines, the wealth asset management company and main developer, has given...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know what the Government can do to intervene in this situation to ensure the developer, which has made a lot of money out of that development, delivers the town centre as it was supposed to do.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps being taken to ensure that each bus operator is updating the Transport for Ireland real-time applications where a service has been cancelled to ensure that customers are aware of service cancellations; the steps being taken to prevent cancellations from happening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18995/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the length of time a contract with a company (details supplied) lasts; when it was last renewed; the reason it was renewed, given that the service has been poor; how many times the company has been fined; the amount; when the contract will be put out to tender again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19006/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Elections (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 255. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to clearly outline which grades of employment are allowed to run in local government elections and which grades are prohibited from running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18960/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 492. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if any Israeli West Bank settler organisations are considered proscribed and subject to restrictive measures or sanctions by the State on the basis that the construction of settlements seriously destabilises the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structure of Palestine (details supplied); if any Israeli...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures the Government is taking to monitor financial support for Israeli West Bank settler organisations, considering that it is an offence under the Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 (details supplied) to collect or receive funds intending or knowing that they be used for the benefit of a terrorist group...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Local Elections (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 610. To ask the Minister for Health if a general dental surgeon on grade H of employment is eligible to run in local government elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 692. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the extensive waiting lists to receive gender-affirming healthcare at the gender clinic in St. Columcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown (details supplied); if there are plans to employ more gender-affirming healthcare professionals in this facility or others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19073/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm the timeline for the completion of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18527/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 181. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of years a school (details supplied) will remain at another location; if the specialist rooms, for example, the science lab, will be in place and ready for use when the new school year begins in August 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18526/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The International Court of Justice, ICJ, concluded earlier this year that Israel was plausibly committing genocide against the people of Gaza. Yesterday the Government of the United States of America made a decision to give €13 billion to a State that is plausibly - and in my opinion undoubtedly - guilty of genocide. Thousands more people have died since the ICJ ruling. Does the...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think Deputy Smith is not coming in. I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this important motion. People Before Profit strongly believes we should abolish the means test for carer's allowance. Indeed, we are against means testing full stop. I will talk a bit more about that. In the case of carers, it is completely unacceptable. Hundreds of thousands of people in this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (24 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the latest updates on provision of new school places in the Dún Laoghaire area at primary and post-primary level; the latest population projections for the area; whether planned school place expansion is consistent with those projections; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18210/24]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Right from the outset I felt that the worst possible thing that could happen in the RTÉ scandal is that a small number of ridiculously paid executives, a small number of ridiculously paid presenters and the lack of governance around those things were going to lead to ordinary workers losing out who had no responsibility for the misgovernance and, frankly, the greed of a small number at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (23 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are dealing with a housing emergency. Most people recognise that. I hope the Government does. We need to dramatically increase the amount of housing we build, in particular social and affordable housing. Recently, Goodbody Stockbrokers produced a report showing that there are only five builders in this country capable of building more than 500 houses per year while the majority of the...