Results 12,361-12,380 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Residential Tenancies (Student Rents, Rights and Protection) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing forward this Bill. Obviously, we will support it. It is right that student accommodation should be brought under the remit of the RTB in order that the sector can benefit from some of the protections, in terms of the rent caps and other protections, that are available to tenants in the private rented sector. Deputy Ó Broin acknowledged, as...
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know how much evidence we need of the requirement for us to separate church and State completely, but we have had plenty of it in recent days. To my mind in 21st century Ireland it is just not acceptable to continue any form of religious discrimination in admission to schools or to continue a religious bias, which is imposed on children in a school of a particular ethos on children...
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have it.
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are discussing all of the amendments in this group?
- Education (Admission to School) Bill 2016: Report Stage (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Most of the points have been made. It is correct that we should be able to compel a school to make provision for children with special educational needs. As Deputy Thomas Byrne indicated, the Bill seems to be a little convoluted in the way it proposes to do so. It appears to focus on the school, the council, the rather lengthy process involved and the powers of the Minister but does not...
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When we met outside the Citywest count centre and the scale of the "Yes" result had become apparent, I told the Taoiseach that the next step would be the separation of church and State. He said we would leave that issue for another day. This is another day. In fact, notwithstanding suggestions about the Citizens' Assembly examining these matters, the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill...
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In line with the referendum result and its own commitment to diversity, the Government should accept the amendments this week.
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What if people do not share a school's faith?
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, if the Government is willing to accept the longer-----
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It will be starting immediately after this.
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil opposed any debate that I proposed at the Business Committee.
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I proposed it at the Business Committee.
- Order of Business (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not saying we should run it.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Referendum Campaigns (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 117. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to make changes to abortion laws here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23524/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Referendum Campaigns (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his plans to implement the recommendations from the Citizens' Assembly. [22708/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (29 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on planned changes to introduce a screening process in the assessment of needs for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23525/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (23 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic division of his Department. [21101/18]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Operations (23 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems indisputable that the biggest social and economic crisis facing this country is the housing crisis and the lack of social housing and affordable housing. I was at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government this morning where departmental officials gave us the latest figures. They show that there are 86,000 families on the housing list. It is, however,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank our contributors from the local authorities and the Department. I thank Ms Mary Hurley for helping with a couple of emergency cases during the week that I raised at this committee last week. It was appreciated. I also thank Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, which is at its wits' end, the same as most public representatives, with the housing emergency. The council must...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists: Discussion (23 May 2018)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one final point about the place finder service. Deputy Jan O'Sullivan was the Minister when the legislation establishing the housing assistance payment was introduced. We argued in the Dáil that HAP was a fantasy and a measure such as a place finder service was required, although we did not have a name for it then. We have been told a few times by the Minister that there was a...