Results 161-180 of 26,783 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 882. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications for emergency replacement mobile homes or caravans that have been received by his Department; the number that have been approved and or are still under consideration and or have been rejected, by local authority; the estimated number of applications his Department expects to receive; the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 883. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the delay in appointing a Minister of State for Traveller Accommodation is adding to delays in administering this emergency funding to Traveller families rendered homeless after storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11450/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1079. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is planning to introduce legislation to include non-binary people in the already-established Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1080. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the work that has been done by his Department to examine legal recognition of non-binary and non-gendered people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12887/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1081. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to ensure that non-binary people can have their gender correctly recognised on official forms and documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12888/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1092. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who died in custody in Mountjoy Prison on 3 January 2022 and establish when the required inquest into their death will take place; the reason the inquest has been delayed for such a long period since the person’s death; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1301. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of how she will progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month through the national childcare scheme (NCS), as promised in the Programme for Government, and also provide a timeframe; provide core funding documentation for 2025/26; explain why the core funding document...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to meet the demands for pay restoration and pay parity for section 39 workers given the ballot for industrial action by section 39 workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10164/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Health if she will immediately lift the pay and numbers strategy to ensure that all health services can be staffed to safe and adequate levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10163/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (5 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing individuals whose medical conditions require the use of extensive medical equipment to claim flat-rate relief for electricity, as those who use kidney dialysis machines currently do. [9957/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet [6430/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [6429/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give an assurance that any future changes in the licensing of taxis will retain the minimal requirements for an SPSV licence, the requirement for all vehicles to be licences and insured for hire and reward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9471/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which he will address the failure of the new phase of BusConnects to provide the promised service, in particular along the E spine, including the promised hourly service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9522/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the NTA will review its current contracts with a company (details supplied) and ensure no new contracts are awarded given the repeated failures of the company to maintain the timetables it is set by the NTA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9473/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene to ensure that a service (details supplied) continues as is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9472/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in the context of the current public consultation on giving a one year licence extension on the ten year rule to taxis with 151 and 152 registrations, if following the consultation taxis that have gone over the ten years in the first weeks of 2025 and are currently inactive, can be relicensed; if he will give a one year extension for...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been a completed tendering process for bus routes (details supplied); the bodies that bid for these routes; and who won the contracts. [9628/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have been asking for this debate for eight or nine months and I have got four minutes. I will try to make a few points about the generality of the housing crisis and the failure of the Government to address it, yet I have no choice in the little time available to me but to raise a specific issue with the Minister which I hope he will take on board, namely, the St. Germaine apartments in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is the Government has breached and failed to vindicate their rights. As a result, more than 50 parents will be gathering to sleep out for 24 hours tomorrow. These are parents who are looking after children with special needs and who feel they have to go to the lengths of doing a 24-hour round-the-clock sleep-out protest outside the Department of Education because the Government...