Results 4,041-4,060 of 26,840 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People are still being asked for more information even though they have an oncologist's report.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He has severe Alzheimer's disease.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to look into the matter.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [59244/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach the very severe danger to people’s health because of the lack of fast and efficient medical assessments of people with housing needs. The lack of social or any other housing options is seriously jeopardising the health of very vulnerable people. I gave the Taoiseach some examples yesterday. Here are some more. One relates to a 59-year-old man with...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Risk Assessment (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the national risk assessment. [59243/22]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, for its contribution and reports, which are always interesting and informative. I would like to follow on from the last point because it seems to me that some to degree, all roads lead to the housing problem in this country. The witnesses mentioned the need to plan staffing for the health service, I could say the same about education and a...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Unlike Deputy O'Donnell, I am not asking the council to proactively support the expenditure of windfall revenues on those things. I asked the question in order to find out whether the council members object to or thought it was fiscally reckless, as against their thinking it reckless to dramatically increase core expenditure we do not have the revenues to cover because some of those windfall...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Logically, therefore, if some of the other problems we have in that regard relate to energy and timber costs, as we have discovered, then investment in trees might not be a bad idea either.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but it is okay in principle so long as the ongoing costs are not increasing, and they could potentially decrease. Another thing suggested to us as a simple measure, which would be one-off and could be done quite cheaply, is to insulate for free everybody's attics. It would be basic insulation. A major amount of energy is being lost just through people's roofs. We do not have to do...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Mr. Barnes was saying we should not get into a wage-price spiral and to be careful about raising incomes to match inflation because then we could potentially be locking in expenditure that will fuel inflation and some of the price increases may be temporary and things come back down and so and so forth. Are council members worried about the other scenario, which is that if inflation...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It could potentially offer an opportunity to redistribute a little as well, could it not? One of the facts, surprisingly, that people are acknowledging now is that excess profits are being made in certain sectors of the economy, whereas other people are losing out because of rising energy costs. The latter is benefiting energy companies. It is now broadly accepted as an idea that we might...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a massive backlog.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about medical assessment.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One terrible aspect of the absolutely dire housing crisis over which the Government is presiding is that people with very serious medical conditions are looking to gain medical priority but waiting months for their cases to be looked at, even though they are in dire situations, clearly because of lack of resources for medical assessment in local authorities. Something needs to be done about...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What were they doing in Cork then?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: With NATO.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I doubt that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He cannot.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (29 Nov 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. [57888/22]