Results 21-40 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 688. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation has been established (details supplied); if not, when is he planning for this interdepartmental group to start the assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17532/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 729. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether the confidentiality provisions of the International Protection Act 2015 allow individual international protection applicants to grant public representatives formal permission to submit queries related to their applications for international protection; whether the Act allows any Department services to answer queries...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Support Services (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department will provide advice and information to two elderly Palestinians (details supplied) who arrived in Ireland in March 2025 and who are currently temporarily accommodated in a hotel; if they will be granted residency status and access to healthcare given their age and medical conditions; the next steps in their...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 782. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to media reports (details supplied), whether it remains his Department’s position that wool is a “low carbon” product; the scientific basis there is for such a position; the professional scientific expertise his Department uses to assess claims about the environmental impact of different agricultural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Communications (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 787. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Communications (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 844. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1019. To ask the Minister for Health if she has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to investigate legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1083. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has been in communication with the Department for Social Protection as part of the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing the impact of a new, non-binary, category of gender on existing legislation; when he is planning the next meeting with the representatives from the Department for Social Protection to investigate...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1085. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development noting that his Department is listed as a co-lead for Action 4.1 of the 2019-2024 Department of Rural and Community Development five-year strategy (details supplied), to provide updates on this action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17624/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (8 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1096. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on Action 4.1 of the 2019-2024 Department's five-year strategy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/25]

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One absolutely key area for giving young people a positive outlet for energies that might otherwise go in worrying or dangerous directions is sport. This also has a great deal of relevance in the context of women and of challenging all the misogyny that one can encounter. One of the positive developments we have seen in the past few years is the tremendous growth in participation in sport,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many, if not most of the people who broadcast the proceedings in this Dáil who work for Oireachtas TV are on precarious, or "if and when" contracts, where they basically do not get paid if the Dáil or the committees are not sitting during Christmas, during the summer and other breaks. Most of these part-time workers earn approximately €12,000 per year. I could not believe...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government will have members on it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Financial Instruments (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of Israeli bonds that have been sold in Ireland since 2023 and the value of these and if he will introduce legislation to forbid the Central Bank of Ireland from facilitating the sale of bonds for countries that are in breach of human rights law and the Geneva Convention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16062/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to address potential economic and financial issues due to US multinationals and FDI leaving Ireland as a result of transatlantic trade war; and if he is considering any emergency measures to minimise the impact of US policy and multinational corporation influence on the Irish economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16063/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Relations (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he played any role in the negotiations between section 39 workers and the government in the Workplace Relations Commission; if he engaged in any discussions with the Department for Health or the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to approve expenditure for pay awards; if he is aware of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 255. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients currently in receipt of both the one parent family payment and the half rate carer’s allowance; the number of these recipients who will lose their entitlement to these payments in 2025 due to their child turning 16; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16328/25]

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is obvious the Government does not want to solve the housing crisis. It has dropped the pretence. It has no targets, it is curtailing the tenant in situ scheme, it has always resisted rent controls and its homelessness figures continue to rise. It does absolutely nothing about it. It does not want to stop the flow into homelessness. It is planning to remove even the minimal rent...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (2 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline, recognising that some disabilities are associated with particular genetic diagnoses, the cooperation that exists between her Department and HSE-funded genetic services, including data sharing arrangements, genetic and genomic clinical services and genetic counselling services; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (2 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 254. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth recognising her Department’s commitment to early intervention to maximise disabled citizens’ capacity and recognising that some disabilities are associated with particular genetic diagnoses, to outline her views on how genetic counselling could support disability services; and if she will make a...