Results 1-20 of 27,111 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diaspora Issues (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 68. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to respond to concerns (details supplied) that his Department’s diaspora survey did not include questions related to housing. [46742/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when free travel for children under nine years of age is expected to be implemented. [46695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 463. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the annual cost of maintaining wheelchair access in train stations and other public transport infrastructure, in particular with respect to elevators; and to comment on the estimated cost of ensuring that all out of order lifts are fully repaired on the day that they are reported. [47491/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 464. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost of creating an on-demand, free service for all individuals with impaired mobility and who cannot access scheduled public transport. [47492/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 541. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of any plans to recategorise carer's allowance such that it is no longer taxable or reckonable as income for the purposes of means assessment. [46184/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 716. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures the competition and consumer protection commission has put in place to enforce the stronger powers granted to them in Consumer Rights Act 2022, and in particular measures with respect to digital services. [46756/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1087. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to consider increasing the funding available to Irish athletes competing internationally at billiards (details supplied). [46328/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to respond to concerns that existing housing schemes functionally exclude many single individuals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45856/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of Part V homes bought, by each local authority, in 2023 and 2024; the average cost of each home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46449/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1250. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an estimated unit cost to the Exchequer for providing cost rental homes,1-, 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom; and for providing affordable homes, 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-bedroom; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46450/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated full-year cost of increasing HAP limits to the average cost of rents in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46451/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of 100 percent redress for building defects affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the estimated cost of 100 percent redress for mica affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46453/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he will consider moving the payment of the back-to-school allowance to an earlier point in the school year (details supplied). [45653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1411. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 518 of 1 July 2025, if the full-year cost of increasing all headline weekly social protection payments to €300 per week, excluding disability allowances, includes State pensions; the breakdown of the estimated total cost of increasing social protection payments to €300...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1442. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of bringing all disability-related payments to €350 per week; and to provide details of this calculation, in tabular form. [47487/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of removing the means test for the disability allowance, blind pensions and invalidity pension. [47495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1444. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of removing the means test for all disability-related payments and bringing them up to at least €350 per week (details supplied). [47496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1711. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the process for MedEvac Palestinians with Stamp 4 visas to apply to have family members join them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1860. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to estimate the full year cost of reintroducing the mobility allowance scheme phased out in 2011 (details supplied). [47494/25]