Results 141-160 of 27,016 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 663. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for cost of public service delivery in the relevant areas. [23259/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 664. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for infrastructure costs in the relevant areas. [23260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 665. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for the local environment, including risk of water contamination as a consequence of reliance on private septic tanks. [23261/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 666. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for public health as a consequence of reliance on private wells for household water and the propensity of private wells to become...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 667. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for carbon emissions as a consequence of the less efficient heat retention by detached homes. [23263/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for carbon emissions as a consequence of reliance on private cars for transportation. [23264/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 669. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for biodiversity as a consequence of reliance on transportation by private car given the greater biodiversity of remote areas and the land...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 670. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for natural disaster resilience given the greater fragility of infrastructure and in remote areas and distance from emergency responders....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rural Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 671. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1221 of 29 April 2025, for details of analysis undertaken by his Department with respect to the implications of expansion of rural one-off housing for unanticipated household costs, considering that there is greater exposure to fluctuations in global fuel prices where there is greater...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 758. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of housing first tenancies that will be made available in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area in the next year. [23985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 759. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to offer guidance on how individuals can be referred for consideration for a housing first tenancy. [23986/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 760. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether legislation will be progressed to transfer the powers of local authority chief executives to the elected council Mayors, Lord Mayors and Cathaoirligh so that council decision-making reflects local views as expressed in local elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23987/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 761. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is considering any policy measures to expand public land holdings in Irish cities and bring them in line with cities like Helsinki where 70% of land is in public ownership; his views on how such a policy might support housing delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23988/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of the number of architects currently employed by local authorities, broken down by local authority; the number of vacant local authority architect posts there are, broken down by local authority; and for details of any plans to increase the number employed. [23989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 763. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of the qualifications required to take up a post as a local authority medical adjudicator. [23990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 835. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an overview of data collected on the effectiveness of labour activation policies administered through Intreo centres; the frequency with which Intreo centres successfully match service users with employment; the data on the type of employment generally recommended by Intreo centres; the data on individuals' earnings...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 837. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether an organisation’s working definition (details supplied) of antisemitism supersedes the description of racism given in the National Action Plan Against Racism, namely that racism has its roots in colonialism, oppression and domination, given that the organisation’s working definition of antisemitism...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 838. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is responsible for the implementation of an organisation’s working definition of antisemitism (details supplied). [24470/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 839. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality given that the Government has adopted an organisation’s working definition of antisemitism (details supplied), whether the illustrative examples of antisemitism appended to this definition should be considered to have also been adopted by the Government; if this is not the case, how he will ensure that this is clear to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (13 May 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 840. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for details of engagements between his Department and an organisation (details supplied) or other anti-racist groups ahead of the Government’s adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism and since the Government’s adoption of the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. [24472/25]