Results 15,361-15,380 of 27,251 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current salary scales for principal, principal higher scale and assistant secretary in the Civil Service; if these grades will attract the €1,000 per annum increase with effect from March 2017; if this increase will apply to the pensions of those grades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8879/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if it is the policy of his Department to replace staff as they leave the HSE; if so, when the consultant orthodontist in Loughlinstown hospital will be replaced; if not, the location that persons requiring orthodontic surgery in the catchment area of Loughlinstown hospital can be referred to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8940/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will grant adopted persons unfettered access to their birth certificates and adoption records. [9156/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will remove the proposed undertaking in section 41 of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9157/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 249. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the compelling reasons ground for refusing the release of information in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 only applies when adopted persons are seeking information. [9158/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 250. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the way the release of information to an adopted person might endanger the life of a person. [9159/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 251. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the national adoption contact preference register is put on a statutory footing in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9160/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 252. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that information sources holding records pertaining to illegal adoptions, particularly instances in which no adoption order exists, will be compelled under the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 to transfer their records to the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [9161/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 253. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to reach out to the more than 2,000 people who were sent from Ireland to America for adoption from the 1940s to the 1970s. [9162/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Authority of Ireland (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 254. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate the stakeholder adoption advisory groups established by her predecessor (details supplied). [9163/17]
- National Famine Commemoration Day Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill and the event it seeks to commemorate on a regular day each year. The Great Famine was an event of earth-shattering and tragic significance and long-lasting consequence for this entire country. Its impact still reverberates today. It fundamentally altered the historical trajectory of this country and had devastating human...
- Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It was misleading as to the impact of the 2012 cuts.
- Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes but all this was made very considerably worse as a result of what was done in 2012. The average and number of contributions that had to be made for the entitlement were changed in 2012. Huge numbers of people who would have been entitled to most or all of the contributory pension before 2012 now find themselves getting considerably less. The Minister has acknowledged there is a problem...
- Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It should be made retrospective.
- Other Questions: State Pensions Reform (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Has the Minister considered the tax breaks for private pensions?
- Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will provide a detailed report on the impact of the changes to contribution requirements for the State contributory pension made over the austerity years, including the numbers of men and women who are no longer eligible for the full contributory pension in each of the years since the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to warn the Minister that he is sitting on a ticking timebomb of anger among pensioners. The changes in entitlement to the contributory State pension that were introduced by Deputy Burton in 2012 represented one of the most sneaky, nasty and covert cuts of the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government. Some 36,000 pensioners have already been affected by these cuts and changes. As this...
- Other Questions: State Pensions Payments (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In the spirit of the sneaky, clandestine and disgraceful cut that was imposed by Deputy Burton, the Minister has answered this question by attempting to baffle people with figures. He has sought to obscure the nastiness of the pension apartheid that was introduced by Deputy Burton in 2012. As a result of the changes that were made at that time, people who are now coming into their pension...
- Other Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It attacked single parents while in government.
- Other Questions: Poverty Data (21 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Central Bank reports take out debts.