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- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has 25 seconds.
- Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a fair bit of latitude.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disgraceful.
- Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, I am sharing time with Deputies Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. The Government has unprecedented resources at its disposal that could have delivered a transformative budget to resolve the housing catastrophe the country is facing, address the crisis in the health service and the cost-of-living crisis and eradicate poverty. Instead of doing that, it has given us a splurge of one-off...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (1 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take in relation to the increasing reports of no-shows of the No. 59 bus (details supplied); if a report on this service over the past two years will be provided, including whether fines have been paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39062/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he will take to alleviate the pressure at a centre (details supplied) which has resulted in one of the residents being moved to another centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39063/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning Cara Darmody committed to protest every week from now on unless the Government fully and immediately takes action to vindicate the rights of children with additional needs. It needs to give her those commitments and undertake those actions. I promised the parents of a child named Frankie that I would mention him. He is four-and-a-half years old. He has autism. He has global...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe the Tánaiste will talk to Cara.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that section 39 workers who are funded by her Department were excluded from the pay restoration agreement between the Workplace Relations Commission and the HSE, and therefore have not received said pay restoration; if she commits to ensuring that section 39 workers funded by her Department receive pay restoration; and if he will make a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How is it that members of the committee-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had no idea who was on the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Normally, the members of the committee go first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It should have been members. In any committee members go first and it does not have to be discussed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the representatives of the OPW for their contribution to this discussion. They are obviously aware that the bike shed scandal has brought the Houses of the Oireachtas, the OPW and the public services into disrepute. People cannot understand how a bike shed could cost the same as a house. I cannot think of any good explanation for why a bike shed would cost more than a house. I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not see why the OPW would not have put the shed there. Security concerns have been cited but I do not see what the additional security burden would have been. There is still a security gate between that area and Leinster House itself. Do the witnesses know how much less that would have cost? Would they still be of the view that it is the option we should have gone with? Who made the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to say, as somebody who walks from Agriculture House into Leinster House every single day, I am baffled as to why that would not be a perfectly suitable location.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can Mr. Conlon give us even a rough idea of the difference in cost between that original suggestion and the current location?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe I was. The original suggestion has recently been described in the media as a more cost-effective proposal. Do we have any idea how much more cost-effective it was?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be far lower.