Results 1,881-1,900 of 27,016 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a tenant’s top-up led them to accumulating arrears would he consider HAP rates for this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11788/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason part V council tenancies are excluded from the tenant purchase scheme when other tenants of council owned houses are included in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12873/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1119. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date of the DNA working group established to consider the potential role of DNA in the context of the provision of the statutory tracing service under the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11869/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1121. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps his Department has taken to inform adoptees and mother and baby home survivors of any potential role for DNA technologies in tracing birth information, given the diverse levels of technological literacy across society; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1120. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on how to approach birth information and tracing policy where a birth parent or other individual with access to relevant information is withholding information or otherwise failing to cooperate with an individual who is seeking out their birth information; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1269. To ask the Minister for Health the procedure for a new company providing home support to be placed on the approved providers list in CHO6; if the tendering process only occurs once per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1300. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of reports that Covid testing laboratory staff employed by private providers were excluded from the Covid-19 recognition payment, although they carried out Covid testing on behalf of the HSE; if it was the deliberate policy of his Department or the HSE to exclude such workers; if so, to supply any details about how this policy was arrived...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1376. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the scopolinem patch; if there are plans to make it available for medical card users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12363/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1570. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has reviewed Water Safety Ireland's recommendations and compared them to those prevailing in Northern Ireland; if she plans to harmonise the lifeguarding season and equipment provisions between Ireland and Northern Ireland; her views on whether Northern Ireland's stringent lifeguarding recommendations play a role in Northern...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The development plan is supposed to be made in a democratic way by elected representatives. If I missed any previous explanation as to why section 51 has been put in and the rationale for involving the Office of the Planning Regulator at this early and formative stage of the development plan, apologies, but could the Minister of State tell me why the Government is doing this? It does smack...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order with regard to a difficulty I have, and perhaps there is nothing I can do about it, I have to leave at 7 p.m. and I have two amendments in the next grouping, namely, amendments Nos. 370 and 381. It is highly possible that I will not be here when we reach them.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendments Nos. 370 and 381.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I strongly support this amendment for many of the reasons that have been set out. I will give a very good current example of why we should have this zoning, namely, the Jurys Hotel site. It is an outrage that this site has been lying idle in the teeth of an enormous housing crisis where hundreds of desperate asylum seekers living in tents on Mount Street are being treated despicably. Huge...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking to the amendment. I thank the Chair.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That site should have been zoned exclusively for affordable and-or social housing. It should not be allowed to be another US embassy that we do not need or, for that matter, to be used for unaffordable housing, which it could have been at one stage when Seán Dunne had some outrageous plan for it. The site should have been seen as strategically important and should have been...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The arguments have largely been made but on the flipping of land, it is worth mentioning the Cherrywood development. The main investor bought it for a song. Let us remind ourselves - the biggest residential development site in the country was bought by a wealth asset management company which sat on it for quite a long period and then started to flip the sites. That is what caused the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the Minister of State indicated in his response to the amendment that the promotion of culture, cultural space and infrastructure was a matter of policy rather than planning. I strongly disagree with him on that. I will give a concrete example I came upon when I was given a fantastic tour in the last week of the emerging Cherrywood development in our area. The town centre is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: From what did the Minister of State quote?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To put it very simply, a strategy for culture and a requirement to provide cultural spaces in the development of an area are two related but different things. You can have a fantastic aspirational strategy and commitment to doing things but then not actually have the places and spaces to do them and it is not a requirement in the development of an area that those things be provided for and...