Results 421-440 of 27,016 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

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.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are not hearing.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am listening.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Government that decides.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a commitment.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: To talk.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We got that commitment last night.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deflect, deflect, deflect.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to help primary and secondary school parents to cope with school costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8427/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase the number of special education teachers, special needs assistants, and special classes to ensure that every child with special or additional needs receives appropriate supports in their preferred school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase investment in education per student to at least a level equal to OECD average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans to increase recruitment and retention of primary and secondary school teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the hot meals programme menus cater for all food allergies and if the ingredients and cooking methods reach the standards for healthy eating as per the standards outlined by the WHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8608/25]

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish the Minister the best of luck with her new brief. It is important she succeeds for the sake of hundreds of thousands of people who rely on the health service every year and indeed for the workers who provide the healthcare. I apologise in advance that I will need to leave because I am simultaneously participating in the Dáil reform committee and therefore I will not be here for...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is me, then Deputies Connolly and O'Gorman. The Putin regime's invasion of Ukraine was an absolutely brutal, unjustified, criminal action and he should get out. Putin should get out of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have the absolute right to resist that brutal invasion and occupation. However, particularly the powers that dominate NATO, the US, Germany and the UK, are not reliable...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not good examples.