Results 61-80 of 27,247 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (23 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 608. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the case of a person with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALLtype B cell) who, at 35 years of age (details supplied) is not eligible to receive CAR T cell therapy as it is only licenced in Ireland for those under 26; the reason Ireland is the only country with this age requirement, and the rationale for this decision; the circumstances...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if she will investigate the case of a young person with complex needs (details supplied); if she will acknowledge that their parents have coped with the intensity of their care since they were a child but now urgently need the help and support of extra hours as a matter of priority; if she will take steps to ensure they are provided; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has engaged with Bus Éireann regarding the ongoing failure to secure a school transport provider for students at a school (details supplied); will she outline how her Department intends to support the resumption of this essential service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered the use of smaller buses or local operators to bridge the gap in school transport provision for children at a school (details supplied); to confirm the timeline envisaged for implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to families currently being advised to use taxis at a cost of approximately €80 per day in the absence of school transport such as the case in a school (details supplied); if her Department will cover the full cost of such transport until a permanent solution is found; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which her Department is coordinating with the Department of Education and Youth to ensure that children with additional needs do not lose out on schooling due to tendering failures or shortages of bus drivers; if either Department have an estimate of the number of children currently missing school or relying on private taxis due to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will review the current school transport tendering process to ensure continuity of service for children with special educational needs; the changes which are being considered to avoid repeated disruption to vulnerable students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that at least 12-children accepted into a school (details supplied) have been unable to attend school this term due to the absence of a transport provider; the immediate steps her Department will take to guarantee school transport for these children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49523/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has contingency measures in place for children with additional needs when a bus provider withdraws from a route or retires; the reason such measures have not been applied in the case of students attending a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49524/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Correspondence (17 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are plans to establish a process or mechanism by which Irish citizens in Gaza, who have lost their documentation during the ongoing genocide can be issued with urgent or temporary documents to assist in their evacuation; the steps he will take in the case of Irish citizens trapped in Gaza (details supplied ); and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (17 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 892. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1092 of 19 March 2025, if he will investigate the delay in the publication of the Report of the Inspector of Prisons into the death of a person in Mountjoy Prison on 3 January 2022; if he will acknowledge the distress this is causing the family of the person who are awaiting the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (17 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1151. To ask the Minister for Health to identify the members of the National Drugs Strategy review steering group. [47817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1367. To ask the Minister for Health to explain the reason a recent decision was made to award a contract for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area to a private ambulance provider when NAS ICV resources are already available; the safeguards in place to ensure that this is not the beginning of a wider privatisation agenda within pre-hospital emergency care; if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge (17 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1442. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department intends to carry out a feasibility study or impact assessment on a voluntary code for bilingual labelling and packaging, as committed to in the 20-Year Strategy for the Irish Language 2010–2030; if a lead official has been appointed to oversee this work; and if he will now initiate this process in light...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to respond to concerns (details supplied) that his Department’s diaspora survey did not include questions related to housing. [46742/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when free travel for children under nine years of age is expected to be implemented. [46695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 463. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual cost of maintaining wheelchair access in train stations and other public transport infrastructure, in particular with respect to elevators; and to comment on the estimated cost of ensuring that all out of order lifts are fully repaired on the day that they are reported. [47491/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 464. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of creating an on-demand, free service for all individuals with impaired mobility and who cannot access scheduled public transport. [47492/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 541. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of any plans to recategorise carer's allowance such that it is no longer taxable or reckonable as income for the purposes of means assessment. [46184/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 716. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures the competition and consumer protection commission has put in place to enforce the stronger powers granted to them in Consumer Rights Act 2022, and in particular measures with respect to digital services. [46756/25]