Results 1,041-1,060 of 27,016 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 457.To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of reversing the 2023 carbon tax increase and postponing the 2024 increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33745/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 458.To ask the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of abolishing USC for all earners and replacing it with a higher income social charge of 10% on all earnings over €100,000 euro per year; the revenue that would be generated by the introduction of this new higher income social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33746/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 459.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of people who do not use their full tax credit; the total cost of refunding unused tax credits to the people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33750/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 496.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker is paid a minimum of €15 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32612/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 498.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of people working in the public sector earning less than the living wage of €15 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 497.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker earning under €100,000 receives a pay increase of 10% in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32613/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 507.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of a 1% increase in public sector pay for all those earning less than €100,000. [33264/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 508.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of abolishing sub-minimum pay rates in the public sector. [33266/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 509.To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of paying apprentices in the public sector the minimum wage from year one of their apprenticeship. [33267/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 532.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the full-year cost of introducing three new bank holidays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33751/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 800.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of WTE SNAs, SETs and EALs employed at primary and post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32674/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 872.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide continual professional development for ‘mainstream’ teachers, SETs and SNAs with regard to teaching and providing supports in a special class setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33702/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 873.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a report on the needs based in school multidisciplinary teams that operate in ten primary schools in the north-east inner city; to provide a full-year cost of providing this across all primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33703/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 874.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school-based speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists are part of the local CHO-sanctioned posts, or are in addition to those; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33704/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 875.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of unqualified teachers employed in schools at both primary and second level in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33705/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 876.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of substitute days in primary and secondary schools that were not filled in the 2023-24 school year; the resulting total amount of unpaid salary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33706/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 877.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how special needs assistants are allocated to primary schools, special schools and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33707/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 878.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special educational needs who had access to special needs assistants in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33708/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 939.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated full-year cost of doubling the current spending on the arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32609/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Expenditure (23 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 940.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated full-year cost of increasing the spending on the arts by 10%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32610/24]