Results 7,601-7,620 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to increase staffing levels across the public service in key areas such as health, education, higher education and training in which clear deficits in capacity have been revealed in the context of the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20472/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has or is planning to carry out an audit on staffing levels and facilities across the public service in key areas such as health, education, higher education and training in which clear deficits in capacity have been revealed in the context of the Covid-19 crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20473/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the safeguards he will put in place in the Dún Laoghaire driver theory test centre when it reopens in the interest of public health (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20378/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 524. To ask the Minister for Finance if businesses impacted by the travel restrictions such as language schools, travel agents and so on the trading of which is unlikely to return to normal when domestic restrictions are lifted will have supports such as the temporary wage subsidy scheme, the Covid restrictions support scheme and so on extended beyond the current deadlines; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 624. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria in respect to the allocation of funding to Sport Ireland in 2020 used to allocate monies to the different sporting organisations; the breakdown of the funding being awarded across major sporting bodies here by Sport Ireland in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18817/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 823. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the delivery of new social homes by construction over acquisition commenced in line with the Programme for Government objective and priority to increase social housing stock by over 50,000 over a five-year period through a focus on new builds in each of the 31 local authorities since 1 June 2020 to date in...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Israeli Settlements (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 894. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the imminent eviction of eight Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood of Israeli-occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem and due to be replaced with illegal Israeli settlers; the actions that Ireland will be taking to ensure Israel does not carry out this war crime given that these...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 895. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the passport office will reopen as normal; when persons can expect to have their expired passports renewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20787/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaeltacht Scholarships (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 914. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason student teachers at a college (details supplied) are required to pay €350 to attend a Gaeltacht course while student teachers attending State-funded colleges can do so for free; if the Gaeltacht course is compulsory in order to qualify as a teacher; if she will consider removing the cost for all students; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 937. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with a diagnosis of autism that need access to an ASD specific unit given that they are as yet without a confirmed school place for the coming academic year in September 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18396/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1116. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if 189 schools were successful and 91 applicant schools were not successful in their applications for the recently announced hot school meals pilot programme; the number of unsuccessful applicants that were DEIS schools; her plans to address the large demand for hot meals in many more schools given the large volume of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gambling Sector (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1388. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department plans to regulate advertisements for gambling whether online or otherwise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18413/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1555. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the actions of the CEO of a hospital (details supplied) in the distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine was a misuse of State property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1557. To ask the Minister for Health when the gay men’s health service will reopen; the measures he is taking to ensure that staff and funding will be made available for the programmes and survival of the clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18254/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1600. To ask the Minister for Health if a school (details supplied) is to lose all onsite therapists, including speech and language therapists and occupational therapists as part of the progressing disabilities service roll-out; if so, the rationale for the school losing interventional therapies onsite for the 160 children attending the school given the optimal use of the time of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1601. To ask the Minister for Health if a school (details supplied) is to lose all onsite therapists, including speech and language therapists and occupational therapists as part of the progressing disabilities service roll-out; if so, the rationale for the school losing interventional therapies onsite for the 160 children attending the school given the optimal use of the time of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1617. To ask the Minister for Health if a residential care worker is deemed not fit to go back to work but cleared to return to work by their cardiologist will be permitted to return to work once fully vaccinated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1985. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the path for resumption of maternity care and services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19498/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2228. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints that have been received by his Department in relation to the violation of the rights or poor treatment of persons staying in mandatory hotel quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20188/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (21 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2275. To ask the Minister for Health when an implementation group will be enacted to progress the recommendations of the HSE Report of the National Psychology Project Team: Establishment of a National Psychology Placement Office and Workforce Planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20373/21]