Results 11,201-11,220 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raised the matter with Deputy Gino Kenny in recent weeks. As other Deputies have noted, the Government urgently needs to review and abandon the proposal. It is worth bearing in mind that the revenue which is expected to be generated from the proposal is a miserable €8 million. Given the impact and hardship it will cause the many people who need food supplements, vitamins and so on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (19 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will request an independent review of the decisions with regard to the errors in the historic PRSI classification of a person (details supplied) and the resulting entitlements or lack thereof to payments from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7977/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (19 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will request an independent review of the decisions with regard to the errors in the historic PRSI classification of a person (details supplied) and the resulting entitlements or lack thereof to payments from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7976/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the next phase in the development of the Sheil Hospital to provide an 80 bed community hospital within the campus in Ballyshannon, County Donegal; if the estimated €19 million has been put in place to carry out the work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7731/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the next phase in the development of the Sheil Community Hospital to provide an 80 bed community hospital within the health campus in Ballyshannon, County Donegal; if the estimated €19 million has been put in place to carry out the work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7800/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (19 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 363. To ask the Minister for Health the reason he has not engaged with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to the crisis in general practitioner healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7873/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (19 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 629. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports available for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8221/19]

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, to deliver houses.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are saying the Minister is reliant on the private sector.

Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason we have a housing crisis is the Government, and the two major parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, believe that housing is a means to make money for certain people in society. The Irish rich have always got rich through property. The property owners who see property as a means to make money are disproportionately represented in this House and the Irish rich...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance if a progress report will be provided on his plans to ensure the requirement to provide quality employment and training as a condition for receiving section 481 tax relief will be met by the film producers receiving the relief and, in particular, his acknowledgement that compliance with this condition should require, as a minimum, compliance with the legal...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, I have raised the issue of the connection between section 481 tax relief and rights for workers and trainees, and the condition attached to this relief to the effect that the film production companies to which it is given should provide quality employment and training. The Minister has stated, rightly in my opinion, in reply to previous questions that it should be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely welcome the progress and the engagement but I am keen that we make this watertight. One question I want to ask is whether sanctions will be applied. I have the details of one of the cases to which the Minister's attention has been drawn. It involves a ruling on four or five items of legislation. A complaint was made by a trainee assistant film director to the Workplace...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Construction is project to project but the law applies. The legislation relating to fixed-term work applies. Developers cannot dodge their obligations to employees on the basis that it is project to project. Animation is project to project but there is some security in it. It is also an audiovisual industry and companies are in receipt of section 481 but these problems do not arise. In...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Film Industry Tax Reliefs (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking as a condition for approving section 481 film tax relief to ensure the application of all employment rights, legislation and in particular the Protection of Employees (Fixed-Term Work) Act 2003. [7476/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which a nurse returning home to work here should proceed to receive the relocation allowance; the length of time it takes to receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7415/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 144. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the relocation allowance for a person (details supplied) is taking a long time to be received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7416/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 277. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason given by a person (details supplied) for the recent resignation from a position; if she will report on the work carried out by the person during the person's tenure in that position; and if she will provide correspondence, minutes and memos relating to the person's work on the film industry forum [7475/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Bogus Self-Employment: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chairman and I apologise in advance because I must leave to put a question to the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, about some of these matters we are talking about here. I may have to run as soon as I see my number coming up. I listened to some of the presentation by Professor Doherty earlier on the monitor. My apologies I was not in the committee for it. I have been...