TDs / Richard Boyd Barrett

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Richard Boyd Barrett

People Before Profit-Solidarity Dún Laoghaire TD in this Dáil since 29 November 2024

Official Oireachtas profile

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1,583
questions asked
Oral and written, to government departments
153,844
words spoken in the chamber
Across 941 contributions
216
votes recorded
Each Yes, No or Abstained in a recorded vote
278
topics asked about
Across 20 departments

From the Dáil chamber only: committee meetings are not in this archive.

What they ask about

The subject headings the Oireachtas filed their questions under.

Who they ask

The departments their questions were addressed to.

Month by month

Low months are usually recesses, when the Dáil does not sit. The archive runs to 22 October 2026.

Questions asked 1,583 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026

Contributions to debates 941 in all

Dec 2024Oct 2026
Show as a table
MonthQuestionsContributions
December 2024 0 1
January 2025 12 11
February 2025 65 141
March 2025 31 67
April 2025 100 31
May 2025 109 2
June 2025 97 0
July 2025 127 0
August 2025 0 0
September 2025 56 0
October 2025 50 0
November 2025 82 62
December 2025 71 54
January 2026 107 95
February 2026 125 83
March 2026 98 48
April 2026 57 62
May 2026 58 114
June 2026 73 53
July 2026 131 12
August 2026 0 2
September 2026 97 62
October 2026 37 41

Debates they spoke in most

Plus 666 contributions in the regular slots, such as Leaders' Questions and Priority Questions. Speech from the chair is not counted.

Asked about similar topics

Worked out by computer from the subject headings of each TD's questions, giving more weight to headings few TDs use. It shows shared subjects, not shared views.

Party, constituency and offices

  1. constituency Dún Laoghaire 29 November 2024 to now
  2. party People Before Profit-Solidarity 29 November 2024 to now
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
804. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of hiring an additional 100 speech and language therapists, 100 psychologists, 100 occupational therapists and 100 physiotherapists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51327/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
805. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of fully subsidising all GP care and eliminating primary care fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51328/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
806. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of abolishing emergency department charges for public patients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51329/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
807. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drug payment scheme threshold to €10 per month; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51330/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
808. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of scraping prescription charges for medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51331/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
809. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated revenue from all parking charges at public hospitals in 2024 and 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51332/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Health
810. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated full-year cost of introducing a fully funded universal contraception scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51333/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Further and Higher Education
887. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated full-year cost of doubling maintenance grants and restoring the grant adjacency rate to 24 km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51351/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Further and Higher Education
888. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated total student contributions paid by all higher education students in 2024 and 2025; the expected contributions in 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51352/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 7 Jul 2026 · to Further and Higher Education
889. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated full-year cost of ensuring all postgraduate research students receive a full-year €30,000 stipend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51353/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Oral 2 Jul 2026 · to Foreign
11. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to exchanges with this Deputy in Dail Éireann on 21 May 2026 with regard to the trial of a person (details supplied), the measures that have been put in place to ensure the fair oversight of the trial; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50271/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 2 Jul 2026 · to Foreign
80. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when she plans to issue a response to correspondence from persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50272/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Oral 2 Jul 2026 · to Further and Higher Education
85. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science whether he will intervene urgently to address the concerns raised by petitioners, unions and academic bodies in a recently published open letter (details supplied), by immediately providing ring-fenced funding for non-commercial research. [50756/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 2 Jul 2026 · to Further and Higher Education
112. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science whether he will respond to a recently published open letter with over 2,000 signatures, calling on Research Ireland to ringfence funding for non-commercial research at third level institutions. [50263/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 2 Jul 2026 · to Further and Higher Education
136. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science whether he will intervene urgently to prevent large scale redundancies and the closure of courses at Carlow College. [50262/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Taoiseach
98. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the total cost of each Citizens' Assembly, Citizens' Forum and similar national consultation processes established since 2016, broken down by project. [49414/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Education
383. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth to review the decision to remove the SNA for IPAS students from a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49198/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Housing
452. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the level of public funding received by each political party under provisions relating to the promotion of women's participation in politics since 2020; and the reporting that has been provided on expenditure of these funds. [49412/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Housing
467. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will provide a clear clarification of the tenant-in-situ policy concerning a family on a housing waiting list (HWL) in one area but who are in rented accommodation in an adjacent area, and are threatened with homelessness, if it should be the local authority in which the family lives or the local authority in which th…
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Housing
473. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his views on whether that in cases in which a person is on the housing list in one local authority area, but in rented accommodation in an adjacent area, and is threatened with homelessness, that there should be a clear policy determining which local authority is responsible for administering tenant-in-situ and other homele…
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Housing
491. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expenditure that has been incurred by the Electoral Commission and his Department in relation to constituency boundary reviews and local electoral area reviews during the past ten years, broken down by year. [49405/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Housing
492. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the public funding that has been provided since 2020 to programmes aimed at increasing participation by underrepresented groups in political and public life, including women, minority ethnic groups, disabled people and young people, broken down by programme and annual expenditure. [49409/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Social
537. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether retired workers will be represented at an upcoming meeting of his European counterparts along with social partners, organised by his Department (details supplied), and in particular whether the Senior Citizens Parliament will be invited to participate. [49180/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Social
538. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether retired workers will be represented at an upcoming meeting involving his European counterparts along with social partners (details supplied) and in particular whether the Senior Citizens Parliament will be invited to participate. [49181/26]
Richard Boyd Barrett Written 30 Jun 2026 · to Children
714. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the public funding that has been provided since 2020 to programmes aimed at increasing participation by underrepresented groups in political and public life, including women, minority ethnic groups, disabled people and young people, broken down by programme and annual expenditure. [49408/26]