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Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I note the poor oppressed Government backbenchers are getting plenty of opportunities to speak today. As of tomorrow, they will have half the time to raise important issues like our response to storms, despite the Taoiseach's claims that he is standing up for their rights. One group that we will not be able to talk about as much is the ambulance drivers of the National Ambulance Service,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is less exposure for the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Emergency Planning (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach the engagements he has had with the National Emergency Co-ordination Group in the days before, during and after storm Éowyn. [15506/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: United Nations (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 166. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications he has had with the United Nations in relation to Ireland’s departure from the UN mandate to deploy troops abroad; the interdepartmental communications he has had in relation to maintaining Irish neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15535/25]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 172. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the communications he has had with the European Union and the United States regarding the provision of arms and economic support to Israel following Israel’s breach of ceasefire in Gaza and escalating settler violence in the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15533/25]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional measures he is proposing to the EU to impose sanctions on Israel given the ongoing and worsening attacks in the West Bank and Gaza following the breach of ceasefire by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15532/25]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional sanctions against Israel is he proposing given that Israel broke ceasefire with Hamas and killed of over 800 civilians; if he is planning to cut trade ties with Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15534/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Anti-Racism Measures (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that a person (details supplied) and Jewish Holocaust survivors, experts and over 100 civil society groups urge world leaders against the adaptation of the IHRA’s definition due to blurring of the distinction of criticisms of the state of Israeli and antisemitism; and if he will scrap the adaptation of the IHRA...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his engagements with the government of Pakistan and its embassy regarding the arbitrary detention of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15397/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his engagements with the government of Turkey and its embassy regarding the arbitrary detention of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15398/25]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is considering prohibiting the use of Shannon Airport by the United States military given the recent threats by President Trump to remove Palestinians from Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6082/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the ten-year vehicle limit for taxis registered in 2015 has been granted, following indications in Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 4 March 2025 that a decision would be made by 21 March 2025, following a consultation on 12 March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 321. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the potential fraud involved in the use of used cooking oil and palm oil effluent as products in renewable fuels, and the concerns of many involved in the renewable fuels industry that the large increase in the use of these products is having a detrimental impact on renewable fuel producers in Ireland, and may also be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 322. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plan to ensure that the EU maximum of 1.7% inclusion of Annex B products under the renewable fuels targets is adhered to; what actions his Department will take to insure that the current volumes of palm oil mill effluent and used cooking oils are examined and compliant with EU regulations, and also correctly audited and certified;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 359 of 25 March 2025, and respecting that existing accommodation must be used to meet the demand for special school places in north Dublin, the reason her Department is seeking to use prefabricated buildings on outdoor space belonging to an existing school rather housing the new school in "phase 2" of that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Reviews (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection which Departments are involved in the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing legislative impacts of non-binary gender marker inclusion on official documents, and what have been the findings from these working group meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15549/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gender Recognition (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 516. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what happens to non-binary gender recognition on legal documents in Ireland if individuals have been legally recognised as non-binary and received an appropriate gender marker on other EU legal documents, such as passports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15551/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Gender Recognition (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is involved in the interdepartmental working group tasked with assessing legislative impacts of non-binary gender marker inclusion on official documents; what are the key legal considerations for including non-binary gender markers on legal documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15552/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 641. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the redress, supports or services available to individuals who spent time in a mother and baby home, but fell short of the six-month threshold by a small number of days or weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15282/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (1 Apr 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 642. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will investigate the case of a child (details supplied) with significant additional needs, who has been in the system since the age of three, and has had to have a private assessment of needs given the delay in State provision of AON, but who has now been informed that they will not be seen by the CDNT...