Results 41-60 of 27,251 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 157. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether he will issue guidance to community and voluntary organisations concerning the sponsorship of employment permits for Palestinians in Gaza, considering the special conditions that apply there, namely that the people of Gaza are subject to genocide, and that therefore the sponsorship of employment permits for Palestinians in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the data he has available on the number of households that were rendered ineligible for social housing due to an uplift to the working families payment in January 2025. [53167/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a summary of all changes to the rental accommodation scheme in the past year, including any relevant circulars issued to local authorities, any changes to relevant regulations, any new funding made available for the scheme; and whether the scheme is now available to new applicants who are at risk of homelessness....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Mother and Baby Homes (7 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 539. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she will consider a location (details supplied) to be equivalent to a mother and baby institution for the purposes of determining eligibility to receive a financial award under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme, where an individual spent time at both this location and at a scheduled institution, but...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (7 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 606. To ask the Minister for Health if a medication (details supplied) will be approved for the treatment of Von Hippel-Lindau disease in view of the fact that this medication has EU approval. [53172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 607. To ask the Minister for Health to ensure an individual seeking medical evacuation from Gaza (details supplied) is given a specific medical offer from CHI Crumlin, as all other prerequisites for medical evacuation have been met. [53179/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (7 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 759. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline any funding streams appropriate for a residents’ group to apply for funding roof repairs and large-scale building upgrades for a community centre (details supplied). [53294/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (2 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he will raise the case of a person (details supplied) from Saudi Arabia who is in currently detained in Bulgaria, with his counterparts in Bulgaria and with the Bulgarian Embassy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52704/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (2 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if officials in the Irish embassy in Sofia will advocate for a person (details supplied) to prevent the person from being returned to Saudi Arabia, where they are at risk of torture and inhumane treatment. [52705/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (2 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to raise the case of a person detained in Bulgaria (detailed supplied) at the European Commission or other appropriate forum. [52706/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (2 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 212. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request a monitoring visit to the Busmantsi Detention Centre in Bulgaria to assess detention conditions, and in particular the detention conditions for a person (details supplied) who is in custody at the centre. [52707/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 420. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will review a decision not to include a glucose monitoring system (details supplied) for persons with type two diabetes for reimbursement under either the DPS or the long-term illness scheme; if she will explain the rationale for excluding it; her views on the prohibitive costs, especially in the case of older persons in receipt of a State...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (1 Oct 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 10 June 2025, his views on whether the principle lesson of the Good Friday Agreement applies equally to Palestine as to Ireland, namely, that militant and paramilitary groups can come to form part of a civilian administration provided they mostly, or partially, decommission their arms, or come to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Travel Documents (30 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the legislative basis of the Government's policy not to issue travel documents to non-nationals experiencing grave humanitarian disasters whose passports have been lost, damaged or destroyed as a consequence of the conditions they are seeking to be removed from (details supplied); and whether he will consider legislation which will allow...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Travel Documents (30 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of historical precedent for issuing travel documents to non-nationals outside of normal procedures during conditions of genocide (details supplied); and his plans to follow the precedent to enable the evacuation of Palestinians from Gaza where they are seeking to come to Ireland.; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (30 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether Ireland's 1980 position endorsing Palestinian statehood, and resolving not to make comment "good bad or indifferent" as to the political beliefs of organisations that are "in a position to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinian people," still applies (details supplied); in particular noting that the relevant beliefs included...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated completion date for new special classes at schools (details supplied); and when the school will commence for children with additional needs who were due to start in these classes [51241/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of second level special class and special school places available in Dublin 9, 11 and 17 in 2025; and the projection for September 2026. [51242/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (30 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 536. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on proposals to review planning laws in relation to permitting the installation of cabin-type accommodation in back gardens to temporarily house family members who cannot source housing elsewhere in view of the current housing crisis; if he will confirm that permissions will be granted solely to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Regeneration Projects (30 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 550. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider conducting an audit to date of a public project's (details supplied) financial, physical, social, and economic aspects following the closure of multiple organisations tasked with delivering the project and the previous publication of a Comptroller and Auditor General Report identifying large cost...