Results 1-20 of 26,960 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (12 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he supports a right of return for displaced Palestinian communities whose families were displaced from what is now considered to be Israel in line with the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the 1948 Fourth Geneva Convention. [31646/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (12 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he agrees with the comments of French Minister Jean-Noël Barrot (details supplied) wherein he expressed that France will support a Palestinian state on the condition that it does not have the key characteristics of a sovereign state, namely that it would be demilitarised and a different, occupying power would be responsible for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 326. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to concerns that a special school in Blackrock (details supplied) will be reducing services or integrating with any other schools. [31345/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Investigations (12 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 504. To ask the Minister for Health if she will investigate the circumstances around the recent admission to a Dublin hospital for treatment for chronic pain, the management of the case and the subsequent discharge of a person (details provided); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proposed date for the completed construction of a school (details supplied); the reason for the delays to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31000/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (11 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis undertaken into the distributional impact of the new jobseeker’s pay-related benefit ahead of its adoption; and the number of people expected to receive lower payments under the jobseeker’s pay-related benefit than they would have received under jobseeker’s benefit. [30895/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (11 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether he will consider adapting the income assessment period for jobseeker’s pay-related benefit to reflect that employees may be placed on reduced working hours as they approach redundancy, in which case their income will be assessed as lower than they typically earned over the course of their careers for the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland will leave the IHRA given the organisation's hosting in recent days of Benjamin Netanyahu who is considered by the Government to be guilty of committing genocide (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29554/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 190. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether it appropriate for Ireland's official definition of antisemitism to come from an organisation that in recent days hosted Benjamin Netanyahu, where he claimed that the position supported by the Government, that Israel is deliberately halting the entry of aid into Gaza, is antisemitic misinformation; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 204. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to justify the adoption of a definition of antisemitism formulated with the input of the Israeli state considering his own comments that the Israeli state instrumentalises accusations of antisemitism to undermine support for human rights (details supplied). [30482/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 191. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the legislative basis that exists for Ireland's policy of neutrality other than the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006, otherwise known as the triple lock. [29714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 195. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline in detail what the implications were to the change in the status of Palestine (details supplied); his views on the symbolic implications of this change in status and any practical consequences for Irish policy. [29823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to justify the adoption of the Global Guidelines Against Antisemitism considering the input of a government that the Irish Government considers to be guilty of the crime of genocide in the formulation of the guidelines via the EU-Israel Seminar (details supplied). [30481/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 27 May 2025, wherein he claimed that it is not for him to make determinations about what qualifies as antisemitic and further to correspondences with the Minister for Justice (details supplied) wherein the Minister claimed that it is not for him to describe the details or status of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 27 May 2025, wherein he claimed that it is not for him to make determinations about what qualifies as antisemitic under the IHRA definition of antisemitism, how he expects officials in public bodies and civil society to make determinations about what should be considered antisemitic under the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason excepting the example of the IHRA definition of antisemitism there are definitions, legally binding or otherwise, of discrimination are generally not officially adopted with respect to particular ethnic and religious groups; the reason, excepting the example of the IHRA definition of antisemitism, Irish law and policy documents...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fisheries Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 247. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for an update on the work of the Minister of State with Responsibility for the Marine in light of reports of frightening decline in Atlantic fish stocks and the contribution of commercial fishing to this decline (details supplied). [30103/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 363. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the impact that several recent bank holiday weekend DART closures have had on passengers visiting coastal areas and local businesses reliant on footfall for weekend trade; while it is understood that necessary works have to be carried out, if he will meet with Iarnród Eireann and other stakeholders to discuss a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 389. To ask the Minister for Finance whether an amendment is required to the Criminal Activity (Terrorist Offences) Act 2005 to allow him to exercise his powers under section 42 of the act to impose restrictive measures against Israeli settlers and any businesses that finance illegal settlements without the support of the Council of the European Union. [29065/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (10 Jun 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 431. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of candidates the Public Appointments Service intends to interview as part of the open and interdepartmental competition for assistant principals before September 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30118/25]