Results 561-580 of 26,831 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have repeatedly raised the recruitment embargo by another name that the Government has imposed on the health service, the so-called pay and numbers strategy, which is limiting the ability of hospitals and health services to recruit the staff they need to ensure safe staffing and proper patient safety in the hospitals. The Taoiseach is aware health workers are balloting for industrial...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The hospital remains exactly as it was when the workers first raised this issue - chronically understaffed and not safe for patients.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach look into it or explain?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if it is not staffed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Another day, another Israeli massacre in Gaza. Since dawn, another 45 innocents have been slaughtered by this terrorist regime. Almost certainly, the weapons that killed those people came from the United States and possibly travelled through Irish airspace. The US military, which supports all this, is also using our airports. Will the Government give us the debate we asked for about the...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Disability Services (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 442. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will implement a review of how the HMD form is working across councils to ascertain whether it places too heavy a load on disabled and ill people (the very people it is supposed to help); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42962/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 443. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will review the affordable housing scheme to ensure that these houses are actually affordable, regardless of location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42963/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to implement the recommendations of the Housing Commission report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42964/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the new resources he will make available to the DRHE in 2025 considering the relentless increase in numbers of people availing of emergency accommodation across the city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42965/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Sector Staff (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 579. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether section 39 workers funded by her Department can expect to receive the pay increases negotiated at the Workplace Relations Commission with the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43070/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 806. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 26 September 2024, to report on a submission regarding section 39 workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43071/24]
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You cannot win.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are a few of them.
- Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a remarkable achievement by the Government that it has a budget surplus of, I think, €25 billion. The Minister of State can correct me if I am wrong. I think it is €25 billion or in that region. It has a windfall of €13 billion plus in Apple tax money that it did not want because it would have preferred that Apple, a staggeringly wealthy and profitable company,...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sharon is 66 and has just retired. Her husband John is 66 and will retire in December. They have worked all their lives and paid their taxes and they are both homeless. They were evicted because the Government lifted the eviction ban and were made homeless in August. They are relying on a day-to-day basis on the emergency telephone number and on couchsurfing with different relatives...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a freefone number.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not available to people whose income is above the threshold.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not against the HAP. I am against it as a substitute for social housing.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Give them the HAP.