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Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to share time with Deputy Barry.

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will have seven minutes and he will have three minutes. I just got off the phone from a call with a friend of mine who is a wheelchair user and disability rights campaigner. I asked him what I should say in this debate. He asked me to express his absolute outrage at the way the Government has handled the referendum. At this point, he is going to vote no on the referendum on care. He...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The struggle for women's liberation and equality has made many advances, primarily as a result of the struggle of women themselves and social movements demanding equality and liberation. Despite the formal acknowledgment and recognition that oppression and all forms of gender-based discrimination women have suffered should end, they persist. That is why it is important to celebrate...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: An often undervalued and ignored group of workers in our health service are the housekeepers and cleaners without whom our hospitals would not be able to function. As we learned during the pandemic, the need for infection control means that this is a job whereby people have to have many skills, a great deal of training, etc., in order to get things right. I raised this matter with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but they are not counting the three- and four-bedroom homes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [9319/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: NESC has done a lot of work on housing in recent years. This fact featured very strongly in its 50th anniversary meeting, which the Taoiseach referred to. I want to raise with the Taoiseach again an area that needs to be examined; namely, the significant and growing deficit in the delivery of three- and four-bedroom homes. I want to update our conversation on this. The Taoiseach said that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said earlier that with regard to children with special needs, he is open to ideas in addressing the deficiency in services, supports and resources. I will give him one instance where he could intervene. I met this morning with Sallynoggin Killiney Educate Together National School, a school in existence for two years. It has two mainstream classes and one autism class. It has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, a statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [9318/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [9317/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The shambles in RTÉ has rolled on for approximately nine months now. It is clearly the Government's responsibility. It has failed to put this mess to bed and to sort out the governance issues. The Minister needs to answer questions so we can get beyond this debacle. Let us remember that it is the public and the workers in RTÉ who have done nothing wrong who are having to stomach...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her agenda for improving Ireland’s drowning rate, with regard to her responsibility for Water Safety Ireland; to provide details of any engagement with lifeguards and lifeguarding groups to this end; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10353/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Water Safety (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her recent engagements with the board of Water Safety Ireland regarding recommended equipment guidelines for lifeguarding that it issues to local authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10352/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 63 of 27 February 2024, how Irish medical volunteers can offer their services specifically to communities of individuals displaced from Gaza to third countries, for example, Egypt; the steps his Department will take to assist individuals or groups who contact them expressing an intention to do so;...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 27 February 2024, if he is aware of an offer by a group which has a team of over 20 highly qualified specialist doctors, licensed and experienced in various medical fields in Dublin, ready to volunteer their services to communities displaced from Gaza into third countries, for example, Egypt...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 27 February 2024, if his Department has considered the direct deployment of Irish medical personnel in the region, including supporting or facilitating volunteer aid from Irish individuals; what in-kind and personnel contributions Ireland has made for same to European bodies for the purposes of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the Woodbrook rail station will be opened and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that a State funded event (details supplied) is issuing consent forms to parents of children participants and attendees which states that the consent form is for filming and photography with wide usage allowed for third parties of which include commercial and non-commercial partners; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality which visas are most suitable for Palestinians in Gaza to apply for in order to be permitted to enter Ireland; which visas are most suitable specifically for those with no family here, but who have previously resided in Ireland and for family members of such individuals; her Department's current policy on approving visa...