Results 11,001-11,020 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The atrocity that took place in New Zealand should absolutely shock us all, but it should also make us consider how such a hate-filled racist and Islamophobic massacre could take place. How did it happen? New Zealand is not the sort of country one would associate with this kind of thing. When I witnessed that horror and just a couple of days before I witnessed the Taoiseach meeting Donald...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The crisis is still going on.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B (Social Policy and Public Services) last met; and when it is scheduled to meet again. [10926/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning I attended the latest meeting of the Raise the Roof housing campaign. It was agreed that there would be another major demonstration on 18 May because of the failure of the Government to address the housing crisis and provide the desperately needed public and affordable housing required to address the housing emergency. I have to say one aspect of the Government's policy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Scéimeanna Teanga (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the Irish language scheme in his Department. [14253/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens Assembly (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 106. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans for the Citizens' Assembly. [11965/19]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Consultations (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 111. To ask the Taoiseach the public consultations planned in his Department over the coming months. [11967/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Data (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the records from the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, the Residential Institutions Redress Board and the Residential Institutions Review Committee were sealed; if this will have implications for the survivors in terms of redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13365/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Expenditure (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 614. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE capital plan will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12748/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 749. To ask the Minister for Health if a general practitioner visit card holder over 70 years of age is entitled to choose a new practitioner in cases in which the existing doctor retires or leaves the practice; if not, if one is allocated by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13367/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 854. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to act on the proposals for a centralised common general practitioners' contract for performing vasectomies, put forward in 2016 by a working group of general practitioners performing vasectomies at the request of the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13706/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Vehicles (26 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has responded to queries from an association (details supplied) regarding fraudulent small public service vehicle, SPSV, licence applications; if fraudulently obtained licences also received wheelchair accessible vehicle grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14048/19]

Recent Developments on Brexit: Statements (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry.

Recent Developments on Brexit: Statements (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are witnessing the rather shambolic death throes of the great British Empire, as it would have seen itself. Given the blood and hardship for which that empire was responsible across the globe, one cannot be terribly sorry to see this decline. The rotten politics, which dominates the British Tory party and to which Theresa May has been hostage, is propelling us towards the ever more...

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was caught up in committee.

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do.

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Fianna Fáil for the motion. I agree with the overall thrust of it and the various measures proposed to try to deal with high insurance costs. Costs have tailed off a bit for motorists but are still significantly impacting home insurance, business insurance, public liability insurance and so on where insurance premium increases have been very dramatic and punitive for some...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his implementation of the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care, in particular the commitment to invest in talk therapies as an alternative to relying on psychiatric medication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12388/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 75. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to deal with the dramatic increase in the prescription of psychiatric medication over the period from 2012 to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12387/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Agency Staff Expenditure (13 Mar 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the amount allocated to his Department spent on agency nurses; the percentage of nurses this is; the way in which this compares with the same statistics in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5942/19]