Results 121-140 of 27,247 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1589. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has made any funding available to local authorities to appoint vacancy officers to manage social housing voids; and if so, how much funding for each local authority. [42962/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1590. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacancy officers employed by local authorities nationwide, broken down by local authority. [42963/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1717. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated one-year cost of removing all income thresholds for social housing eligibility. [44343/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1718. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the potential for revenue raising through the application of differential rents to individuals on high incomes were the income thresholds for social housing eligibility removed. [44344/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1719. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated one-year cost of adding all social welfare payments to the income disregards for social housing eligibility. [44345/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1720. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated costs of establishing a monitoring body which will conduct regular inspections of private rental units to ensure compliance with local and national standards; and further to the costs of establishing this body, the potential costs of running it for one year. [44347/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1721. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated costs of establishing an independent Traveller-specific housing agency to oversee the delivery of culturally appropriate Traveller accommodation nationwide; and the estimated costs of delivering housing for all Travellers who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. [44348/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1722. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated costs of building 66,910 homes on the 83 parcels of disused and underused land in public ownership identified by the Land Development Agency; and to provide an update on the status of these parcels (details supplied). [44350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1723. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether it is consistent with national policy that a local authority in Dublin has voted to reduce the density of zoned housing on a vacant parcel of land (details supplied). [44352/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1800. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employers will be allowed to enrol higher rate taxpayers in a company pension scheme and other employees in My Future Fund; if so, if employees who move from My Future Fund to a company pension scheme (or vice versa) on a change in tax status, be allowed to transfer accrued funds to the new scheme; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1801. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question 127 of 19 June 2025, the number of the estimated 200,000 higher rate taxpayers eligible for enrolment into My Future Fund that are projected to join the scheme when it goes live on 1 January 2026, (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41891/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1895. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing the fuel allowance. [44325/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to estimate the cost of expanding the fuel allowance to all people on a disability-related social protection payment; and of extending the heating season to 32 weeks. [44337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1897. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated costs of linking the wage subsidy scheme to the national minimum wage; and the estimated costs of restoring the wage subsidy scheme to 70% of the national minimum wage. [44341/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1898. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of reconfiguring disability allowance payments such that only the receiving individual’s personal income is assessable, and not their household’s and where “welfare cliffs” in the payment are designed such that no recipient will receive less income in aggregate if they take up...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1921. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to intervene urgently to assist with an individual (details supplied) who has been displaced from Gaza alongside his family who are seeking to exit Gaza and come to Ireland. [40860/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1957. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to respond to concerns raised in relation to conditions for residents at a location (details supplied). [41232/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Middle East (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1958. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to engage with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that a humanitarian worker (details supplied) is evacuated from Gaza. [41236/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Middle East (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1959. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality If he will work with his counterpart at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to ensure that an individual and his family (details supplied) are evacuated from Gaza. [41242/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Middle East (29 Jul 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1966. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to intervene to ensure that a person (details supplied) who has been accepted for a place in UCD is granted a student visa to exit Gaza and take up their studies in Ireland. [41327/25]