Results 481-500 of 27,016 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week in the Dáil I raised the plight of teachers in the British and Irish Modern Music Institute, which provides degree courses for TUD in commercial modern music. At that point, 53 of them had been threatened with redundancy and were told they would have to reapply for their own jobs and would be facing big cuts in their pay and conditions. Their union and their strike action...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (20 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the preparations and scenario planning he is undertaking to deal with the possible implications for the Irish economy of the policies of the new Trump administration in the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6602/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is planning to amend employment legislation to improve employment rights and job security of film workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6603/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Exchequer Payments (20 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 227. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the annual funding from the State to organisations (details supplied); and the way it has been broken down or ringfenced over the past five years. [6860/25]
- Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Adam Smith knew.
- Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Most technology can be used either to benefit human beings or for malign purposes. I do not trust the people who control this technology, or the people who dominate the political scene in most of the world, to use this technology to the benefit of society. One of the best films ever made in my opinion - if you have not watched it, you should - is Charlie Chaplin's "Modern Times", in which...
- Maximising Artificial Intelligence: Statements (19 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, get rid of your phone and computer. I wish I could.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Vital bus routes and public transport services should not only run if a private company can make a profit out of them. A private company, Aircoach, has just announced that it is going to cut several routes, including one that goes through my area. The cut means there will no longer be a route going from Shankill, Ballybrack and Loughlinstown to Dublin Airport. Bus drivers in my area are...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is an Aircoach route.
- Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister does not bother his backside to turn up for two housing debates in a row and the Government refuses to discuss for nine months the Housing Commission report which provided a damning indictment of the failures of Government housing policy. Why? It is because the Government does not want to solve the housing crisis. It does not care about the people who have been on housing...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Health if the companies from which the HSE buy services are obliged to be audited even if they are not-for-profit companies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6509/25]
- Provision of Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion and I thank the parents who have come in and who are devoted to their children and to vindicating their children's rights. We are talking about their rights, both under Irish law to education and under the UNCRPD to equality and to be able to participate fully in society on an equal basis to every other child. The Government is failing children...
- Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not allowed use the word "lies" in here, so instead we will have to say the Government is systematically misleading people about why we have a recruitment and retention crisis in our health services in general and, specifically, in our mental health services. It fails to acknowledge the reason we cannot recruit or are not recruiting the staff we need - psychologists, psychiatrists,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not happening in Drew Harris's case.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sort this one out.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Dublin and Monaghan bombings were the single biggest atrocity in one day of the entire Troubles when 33 people were killed in bombings that Loyalist paramilitaries admitted they carried out, almost certainly with the collusion of the British Government. The Taoiseach should ask for Britain to release all the files and information available about those atrocities but he is in a very weak...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach to report on any recent discussions with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. [6085/25]
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said earlier he cared about workers. Where is this Government's respect for 27,000 section 39 workers who look after the disabled, elderly and vulnerable and who still have not received the 8% pay rise agreed in the WRC and who still do not have the parity that was promised with workers employed directly by the health service? I was talking this morning to home care workers...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was grimly amused by the Taoiseach's suggestion earlier today that he was calling for a housing debate.