Results 3,401-3,420 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what he intends to do to ensure emergency accommodation is available for those who need it in their local particularly appropriate door accommodation for families and pensioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23568/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will introduce legislation or regulations to ensure that the tenant-in-situ and cost rental tenant-in-situ-schemes will include first refusal for the tenant, the council or approved housing bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23565/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what actions he intends to take to reduce rents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23567/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated full-year cost of making all public transport free; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23797/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 197. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the average unit cost of new electric buses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23798/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Schemes (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the rural transport programme, including the cost of the programme and the annual capital investment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23799/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Schemes (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 199. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual costs of PSO funding for all transport services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23800/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost in 2022 of providing funding across the country for safe routes to school. [23801/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total amount of funding that was applied for the safe routes to schools programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing children's allowance by 10%, and extending the payment until children are finished in full-time education or turn 18 years, whichever is the later; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23787/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the respite carer's support grant to €2,500; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23788/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the domiciliary care allowance to €350; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23789/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 363. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing free school meals for all post-primary school pupils in public schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23790/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 364. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of providing free school meals for all primary school pupils in public schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23791/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending eligibility for the fuel allowance to all pensioners, to all in receipt of the working family payment and/or a medical card; the estimated cost of abolishing the waiting period of a year for those on JSA, and by increasing the rate by €20 per week; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 366. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending eligibility for the household benefits package to all pensioners and to all in receipt of the working family payment and/or a medical card, and by increasing the rate to €60; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23793/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of restoring the pension age to 65 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23794/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 368. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing all headline social protection payments to €300 per week, excluding disability-related payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23795/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 369. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing disability, blind pensions and invalidity pensions to €350 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23796/23]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, found in favour of Ms Jane Crowe, former Debenhams worker and shop steward in Henry Street and, by extension, hundreds of other Debenhams workers who were cruelly treated and let down by their employer, Debenhams, and KPMG, the liquidators. The ruling found that the liquidators did not consult the workers properly and did not give them the...