45. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he is planning to reform the national minimum wage legislation to ensure that apprentices and young workers are not paid below the national minimum wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13127/26]
46. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he is considering introducing price caps to set maximum prices for basic foodstuffs and energy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13128/26]
54. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he is planning to amend employment legislation to improve employment rights and job security of film workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13125/26]
68. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the legislative measures he is planning to implement to ensure that artificial intelligence adaptation does not lead to job loses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13129/26]
208. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection whether he is aware of a situation wherein an award of the basic income for artists may result in a household losing eligibility for disability allowance, putting them at risk of poverty; and for details of any steps he will take to address this. [12974/26]
6. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the first progress report of the climate action plan. [8096/26]
20. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach for his response to the NESC report, Building a Virtuous Demographic Cycle. [10453/26]
152. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Defence the communications she has had with other members of the United Nations about Ireland’s departure from the UN mandate to deploy troops abroad; and the interdepartmental communications she has had regarding the timeline of changes to ‘triple lock’ legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8697/26]
270. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number Irish citizens his Department is aware of that have been detained by ICE in the US. [12230/26]
585. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will engage with Dublin City Council to resolve an ownership issue relating to a plot of land owned by her Department (details supplied) on which three Dublin City Council tenants reside; if she is aware that two of these tenants wish to purchase their homes but are unable to do so due to the land not being in the ownership of Dublin C…
715. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if he has received any applications or requests to any section of his Department or State body under his aegis, for funding or financial collaboration from private investors with regard to an ice hockey arena in Cherrywood, County Dublin; if so to provide full details including amount of public funds being sought, whether the Go…
771. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has received any applications or requests to any section of his Department or State body under his aegis, for funding or financial collaboration from private investors with regard to an ice hockey arena in Cherrywood, County Dublin; if so to provide full details including amount of public funds being sought, whether t…
801. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount allocated by the Traveller accommodation unit to each local authority for acquisitions specifically for the Traveller community between 2019 and 2025. [12251/26]
802. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria to get approval for funding for Traveller-specific acquisitions from the Traveller accommodation unit; and to outline any changes to these criteria since 2019. [12252/26]
803. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for Traveller-specific acquisitions that have been refused by his Department. [12253/26]
804. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Traveller liaison officer roles his Department has funded since 2019; and the number of requests for funding for these roles his Department has denied. [12254/26]
992. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider establishing a museum in Tuam dedicated to victims of abuse by religious orders. [12805/26]
61. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the immediate actions that will be taken by his Department to accelerate delivery of critical infrastructure outlined in the accelerating infrastructure action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10694/26]
83. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the reforms that will be introduced in his Department to deliver on infrastructure promises made in the accelerating infrastructure action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10693/26]
269. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport his views on safety concerns related to the makes of cars available for use on Irish roads; and whether he plans to take measures to address them (details supplied). [11295/26]
350. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason a school has not been allocated any SNAs for 2025-2026 despite the significant and growing level of need; the number of children with additional needs attending the school (details supplied); her views that smaller school's experience an inequity of access to support children purely based on school size and infrastructure rather th…
420. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the homes delivered over the past five years, by local authority; the number of units transferred to local authorities for social and affordable homes under Part V agreements; whether these units were delivered as part of each development or in a separate site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11339/26]
4. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether his Department is aware of reports that many ostensibly recycled plastics go to landfill or are incinerated (details supplied), and in light of this the data he has available regarding the volume of plastics that are actually recycled after collection through the deposit return scheme; and the monitoring systems which ar…
144. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth to respond to concerns that funding for works at a school (details supplied) have not been added to her Department’s priority list and that the relevant planning permission risks lapsing as a result. [10752/26]
367. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if she will investigate the reason an elderly woman (details supplied) who was scheduled for surgery at St. Michael's hospital, Dun Laoghaire; if she will urge the HSE to identify a slot for the person elsewhere as a matter of priority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10839/26]