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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were very proud in our area that Monkstown Boxing Club had one of its boxers, Jack Marley, participate in the heavyweight division of the Olympic Games. The area was very proud and it is a fantastic community club. Does the Minister of State know how long it has been fighting for a permanent facility? It has been for about three decades. It is one of the most inclusive, community-based...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad to hear the positive response. The whole borough of Dún Laoghaire, and indeed the whole country, was very proud of Jack Marley but also of many others of our Olympians and Paralympians. We need to really support and resource them. There is not a proactive approach towards this issue in a lot of the local authorities. I will take Sallynoggin Pearse for example. Again,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the new measures and investment she is proposing to expand and improve the provision of grassroots sports facilities, in particular to address the significant deficit in the provision of sports and playing pitches, as we approach the budget, and in the aftermath of Ireland's success in the Olympics and Paralympics, and the growing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a welcome move by the Government to add a new leaving certificate subject - drama, film and theatre studies. A problem is that many people who might take up that subject and go on to study in college will face poverty and precarity when they-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Facilities (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I thought it was with one of the later questions. There is a chronic deficit of pitches and playing facilities across the country. There has been a welcome expansion in participation in sport, particularly in women's sport, but everywhere - certainly in my area - there is a dire deficit of all-weather pitches, pitches generally, decent facilities, facilities with showers and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she intends to extend the basic income for artists and art workers; if so, to provide a costing for such a measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37006/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has had any discussions with the Minister for Finance in advance of Budget 2025 in relation to ensuring that continued and increased financial support for the film and audio visual industries is more strictly conditioned on the provision of security of employment for film crew, the full vindication of employment rights and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the changes she is proposing following the film industry stakeholder forum earlier this year, particularly in relation to secure and quality employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she intends to further increase funding to the arts, culture and sports to bring this funding in line with EU averages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the tenant-in-situ and cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes are a demand-led programme, and that any house that can be purchased by a county council to avoid homelessness is purchased in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37003/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is proposing to increase the social housing income eligibility thresholds, and the problem of people being removed from the list after many years waiting due to their income going slightly over the threshold, and that when people who do go over these thresholds, they are no longer eligible for any housing support,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in the aftermath of the Housing Commission report, he agrees that housing output should increase to 60,000 new homes per year to address future housing need and the current housing deficit; whether he agrees, given the chronic deficit of social and affordable housing, that at least 50% of this output should be social and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take measures to accelerate the processing time of housing applications and disability or medical information forms; if he will address the issue of frequent refusals of medical priority and need, despite overwhelming medical and welfare evidence to the contrary that priority is required and that particular...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to ensure that the affordable to purchase housing at Shanganagh, and on all other publicly provided affordable housing schemes, will be genuinely affordable for those on average incomes. [36999/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to set up community bus services during the day, to offer school bus drivers more paid hours during the day in order to alleviate the shortage of school bus drivers available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37104/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions he has had, or is planning, with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in light of the Government acknowledgement, and the recent ESRI report, on the need to significantly increase housing delivery targets over the coming years, and the public expenditure implications of such a revision; and...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Apple ruling confirms Governments colluded systematically over more than a decade with the efforts of Apple to avoid tax and deprive the people of €14 billion when they were on their knees being crucified with austerity. It is worth remembering that in 2013, we were also starting the process of getting rid of the biggest property portfolio in the world via NAMA and selling it off...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I say to the Taoiseach that there are no red lines for Israel. There is no atrocity it will not commit or horror it will not perpetrate. The latest one is by any definition an act of reckless, murderous state terrorism. This is the evil genius of getting thousands of pagers and putting explosives inside the pagers and then simultaneously detonating them all over Lebanon and parts of Syria....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is worse. The IMO says it is worse.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [36722/24]