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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (22 Jan 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 689. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the requirements for having State identification documents, for example, passport, public services card, driver's licence and so on, issued with names in Irish, should the applicant choose to use the language; if these requirements are discordant with State efforts to facilitate increased use of the language; and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (22 Jan 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1061. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person who is on Stamp 1G critical skills permit is allowed a grace period if made redundant or dismissed after six months' employment; the length of time that is the applicable grace period for the applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2084/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Foreign Conflicts (22 Jan 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1129. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth given that Ireland currently does not have an agreement to internationally adopt children from Palestine, if he has any plans to change that; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1972/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Jan 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1354. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update from the HSE as to how much longer a person (details supplied) will be waiting for an appointment with the ENT consultant in Crumlin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46467/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Jan 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1552. To ask the Minister for Health to give a clear outline of when the free HRT scheme will be implemented, as promised in Budget 2025; to commit to reimbursing patients who have had to purchase the medication after 1 January 2025 when the scheme was supposed to be introduced; to ensure that any GP fees incurred during the prescribing process are waived to ensure ‘free’ HRT as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (22 Jan 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1431. To ask the Minister for Health what Teva pharmaceutical products, if any, are being used in Irish hospitals; if he has plans to use substitute products from other companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Jan 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1491. To ask the Minister for Health if and when the recognition payment for health care workers, agency workers in Covid testing laboratories and many others working throughout the pandemic will be paid especially workers in a facility (details supplied) which was contracted by the HSE to conduct PCR testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (22 Jan 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1702. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the scholarships available for a prospective university student who experienced homelessness as an adolescent and was not under the care of Tusla, therefore making him ineligible for the 1916 bursary and the student assistance fund, as he was neither under Tusla’s care nor in receipt of social welfare payments. [46521/24]

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will be supporting the nomination of Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, not because we agree with Sinn Féin - we disagree with it on many things, not least its refusal to rule out coalition with Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael - but because we believe parties on the left have an obligation to end 100 years of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael and put together the first left-wing...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As this Dáil comes to an end, I thank the staff. We might be banging our head off a brick wall with the Government, but we are always pushing at an open door with all the staff here. Here is scandal that is illustrative of what Deputy Bríd Smith was talking about as to whose interests get prioritised in Irish society and why we have a housing crisis. For niche living in Dún...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about this?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are seeing profiteering and flagrant abuse.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This developer is a well-known name.

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also wish Deputies Murphy and Howlin the very best in the future.

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this important motion on the horror we are witnessing being committed by Israel and its allies in Gaza and Lebanon. Since dawn this morning, 22 Palestinians have been murdered by Israel and 40 people in Lebanon have been murdered by Israel. Since October last year, that brings it to a horrific total of about 48,000 people we know of who have been...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want to delay this Bill any further. I understand it needs to be passed notwithstanding the debates we might have about it. It is a little bit odd that anybody would oppose it because this is money we have to have spent to keep the show on the road. We might want to spend it differently or spend more but we need this money to cover the costs of public services and so on that...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure the Minister is right in what he has said.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not sure the Minister is right.

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not necessarily the case that the budget will go up the next year-----

Appropriation Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In some ways, this is a formality we go through at the end of each year. As I understand it, it is the final authorisation of the expenditure of money throughout the year and of money that will be carried over that has not been spent. It is an opportunity to dwell a little bit on the issue of the expenditure of the enormous amount of public money totalling €86 billion. It is the...