Results 241-260 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an alliance of the left.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Middle East (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 325. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that the Central Bank is not acting in a manner that might be complicit with genocide given that the bank is continuing to allow Israel to sell Israeli bonds in EU Member States, despite the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Israel is plausibly committing genocide and the ongoing South African case at the ICJ...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 512. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if assistance is available to families who go above the income threshold for social housing supports due to the automatic payment of working family payment arising from a reduction in income that year, and therefore lose their cumulative waiting time on the housing list. [7451/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 829. To ask the Minister for Health if she will review the means test limits for a full medical card for those under 70 and for those over 70; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7126/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is very interesting. I was not aware the Minister of State was notified. Due to the three days of strike action and the representations of IFUT, the workers' union, it looks as if BIMM has made concessions which it is hoped are satisfactory to the workers. The context here is that 53 workers were told they were going to be made redundant but not because their jobs were gone. They...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear, their strike action, the actions of their union and the fact the matter was raised in this House all put pressure on BIMM to come to the table. It had previously refused to go to the WRC. There is a serious issue here, especially as the workers were working under the auspices of TUD. Essentially, TUD had outsourced this degree to a private company. That contract will be...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene to protect employment rights and jobs in an institution (details supplied), which provides courses for TU Dublin and refuses to engage with the WRC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7039/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week in the Dáil I raised the plight of teachers in the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, which provides degree courses for TUD in commercial modern music. At that point, 53 of them had been threatened with redundancy and were told they would have to reapply for their own jobs and would be facing big cuts in their pay and conditions. Their union and their strike action...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the preparations and scenario planning he is undertaking to deal with the possible implications for the Irish economy of the policies of the new Trump administration in the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6602/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to amend employment legislation to improve employment rights and job security of film workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6603/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Exchequer Payments (20 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 227. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual funding from the State to organisations (details supplied); and the way it has been broken down or ringfenced over the past five years. [6860/25]

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Adam Smith knew.

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most technology can be used either to benefit human beings or for malign purposes. I do not trust the people who control this technology, or the people who dominate the political scene in most of the world, to use this technology to the benefit of society. One of the best films ever made in my opinion - if you have not watched it, you should - is Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times", in which...

Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, get rid of your phone and computer. I wish I could.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vital bus routes and public transport services should not only run if a private company can make a profit out of them. A private company, Aircoach, has just announced that it is going to cut several routes, including one that goes through my area. The cut means there will no longer be a route going from Shankill, Ballybrack and Loughlinstown to Dublin Airport. Bus drivers in my area are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an Aircoach route.

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister does not bother his backside to turn up for two housing debates in a row and the Government refuses to discuss for nine months the Housing Commission report which provided a damning indictment of the failures of Government housing policy. Why? It is because the Government does not want to solve the housing crisis. It does not care about the people who have been on housing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Health if the companies from which the HSE buy services are obliged to be audited even if they are not-for-profit companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6509/25]

Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion and I thank the parents who have come in and who are devoted to their children and to vindicating their children's rights. We are talking about their rights, both under Irish law to education and under the UNCRPD to equality and to be able to participate fully in society on an equal basis to every other child. The Government is failing children...