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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give an assurance that any future changes in the licensing of taxis will retain the minimal requirements for an SPSV licence, the requirement for all vehicles to be licences and insured for hire and reward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9471/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he will address the failure of the new phase of BusConnects to provide the promised service, in particular along the E spine, including the promised hourly service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9522/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will review its current contracts with a company (details supplied) and ensure no new contracts are awarded given the repeated failures of the company to maintain the timetables it is set by the NTA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9473/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene to ensure that a service (details supplied) continues as is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9472/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the context of the current public consultation on giving a one year licence extension on the ten year rule to taxis with 151 and 152 registrations, if following the consultation taxis that have gone over the ten years in the first weeks of 2025 and are currently inactive, can be relicensed; if he will give a one year extension for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been a completed tendering process for bus routes (details supplied); the bodies that bid for these routes; and who won the contracts. [9628/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been asking for this debate for eight or nine months and I have got four minutes. I will try to make a few points about the generality of the housing crisis and the failure of the Government to address it, yet I have no choice in the little time available to me but to raise a specific issue with the Minister which I hope he will take on board, namely, the St. Germaine apartments in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is the Government has breached and failed to vindicate their rights. As a result, more than 50 parents will be gathering to sleep out for 24 hours tomorrow. These are parents who are looking after children with special needs and who feel they have to go to the lengths of doing a 24-hour round-the-clock sleep-out protest outside the Department of Education because the Government...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Tánaiste be down there tomorrow at 1 p.m.?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Contempt, arrogance, sleveen politics and speaking out of both sides of your mouth------

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ----- are what were on display at the Dáil reform committee on the part of the Government last night. Why is that important? It is not just contempt, arrogance and the Government speaking out of both sides of its mouth that are a problem for the Opposition, but it is the mask slipping on a more general approach of the Government, which is about arrogance, contempt and speaking out of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the pay increases they should have got over the last ten years to address the cost of living.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Tánaiste going to give that commitment to section 39 workers-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----or will he show the contempt, the arrogance-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the sleveen politics that were on display last night at the Dáil reform committee.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Section 39 workers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that people who are part of the Government will never really ask the hard questions and call the Government out.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Noel, the section 39 worker I was talking to, said the Tánaiste was going to mention the WRC. He said the workers had been to the WRC and sometimes the Government does not even bother to turn up. He said it is a stalling tactic. He guaranteed that Simon Harris would say "WRC". The workers do not want the WRC; they want a commitment to pay restoration. Give the commitment to pay...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because the Government does not care about the service users and the section 39 workers who are looking after the most vulnerable in our society.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give a commitment. Stop talking out of both sides of your mouth.