Results 1-10 of 10 for sligo speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (9 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many incidents and complaints have been logged in the past 24 months with regard to public and staff safety on the Sligo to Dublin train service, particularly between Sligo and Mullingar and vice versa; if any security or staffing measures will be implemented to provide safe transport for customers and staff on this train...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite the transfer of a child (details supplied) from Sligo University Hospital to Temple Street Hospital as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3018/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...by the student accommodation crisis. It is absolutely dire. We are facing an unprecedented crisis of availability of affordable student accommodation. The student unions in Dublin, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and many other places are now overwhelmed with thousands of students who cannot find affordable accommodation. The disease of unaffordable rents that has contributed so much to the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Capital Investment: Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (1 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Has there been any shift in what the Department is being told by Ministers about what our objectives are to build that capacity? I heard Dr. Fergal Hickey, a consultant in emergency medicine from Sligo, say he believed there had been no significant shift in accident and emergency investment, for example, despite the lessons of Covid. What do our guests understand has been the capital...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...until 2019, prior to Covid, and currently stands at €47 million, almost half what it was in 2008. At the same time, we have announcements that Expressway services in rural areas such as Wexford, Waterford, Sligo and Dundalk are to be cut. The public transport system, which is not based on profit, is being slashed in favour of private for-profit transport providers that have no...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...who are responsible for the situation we are in now, namely, the Government. I will give another shocking example, which is also breaking news. Eight third-year student nurses on placements in Sligo were due to start in a nursing home on Monday. They had travelled from different counties and are sharing accommodation, with four in one place and three in another. They asked their care...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the information showing the extent of abandoned and failed tree plantations in counties Donegal, Mayo, Sligo, Galway and Clare; if he will provide the latest carbon calculations for the forest estate and the projected carbon figures into 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40372/17]

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (6 Apr 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...with their kids, desperately wondering whether they will ever have a secure and permanent roof over their head, or the resilience that is necessary when a person is queuing up in an ambulance outside Sligo Hospital, unable even to get in the doors of an overcrowded accident and emergency unit. These are the issues the citizens of our country are concerned about and the things they want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process: (Resumed) Permanent TSB and AIB (9 Apr 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know. The tenants I was dealing with were in Wicklow, Sligo-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the situation where over 40 visually and audibly impaired children in the areas of Roscommon, Sligo and Donegal have been without the visiting teacher service since December 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12306/14]