Results 19,801-19,820 of 26,924 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children First Guidelines (13 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 131. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on whether the Children First guidelines are being adhered to in the context of children whose families are made homeless and are in homeless services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21042/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (8 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the full scientific evidence including original documentation and reports, along with the names of the State pathologists and laboratories, that were involved in the compiling of the evidence and conclusions sent to his Department regarding phytophthora ramorum in Gougane Barra; and if he will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the profits from the timber removed from Gougane Barra, a public amenity forest, will be reinvested in the forest park; the amount of timber in cubic metres that was the final amount; the amount per cubic metre that was obtained for it; the total sale price; the age of the trees; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To clarify, in cases where rents are increased by landlords in RAS arrangements or whatever, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is breaching the caps which individuals cannot breach in private arrangements with landlords.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome everyone here. I also welcome this discussion because there is no more urgent discussion to have and I hope it will lead to action and policy change. Do the delegations categorise the current situation as a crisis? I want to know because one cannot begin to address the problem unless one alerts people to how serious it is. Maybe the problem is more acute in my area than in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I have a couple of more questions and the first one is on rent caps. I am not in favour of pumping rent allowance into the pockets of private landlords but rents are spiralling. Should we vary rent caps in the short term? Community welfare officers are restricted to a rent allowance cap. Can the council confirm that the councils in RAS arrangements often pay way over the cap in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Current Housing Demand: Discussion (Resumed) (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Are there spaces available in the hostel?
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Appeals (7 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her Department will assist in preventing a person (details supplied) from becoming homeless by extending their rent supplement for the duration of their time in receipt of illness benefit. [20475/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach has done a good job of that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask about two issues regarding Davos, one of which the Taoiseach addressed and the second he did not. I want to clarify that the Taoiseach did not talk about it when he should have. On the matter he talked about, fairly astonishingly, one of the big issues discussed at Davos was inequality and the need to address it. I will briefly pass over the enormous irony of some of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It did not stop Fine Gael councillors voting for it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed unemployment and growth at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16188/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed banking and sovereign debt at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16189/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he discussed trade and services across Europe at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16190/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he held private meetings with counterparts at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16191/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he held any discussions on Ireland's housing and property sector at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16192/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): World Economic Forum (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he held any discussions on the transatlantic trade and investment partnership at the Davos World Economic Forum and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16193/14]
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a disaster. Wake up.
- Leaders' Questions (6 May 2014)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Build more houses, urgently.