Richard Boyd Barrett
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People Before Profit-Solidarity · Dún Laoghaire · serving since 2024-11-29
- Vote recorded in 174 of 401 divisions in the archive
- 838 debate contributions
- 1,449 parliamentary questions asked
Record timeline
- constituency Dún Laoghaire 2024-11-29 to present
- party People Before Profit-Solidarity 2024-11-29 to present
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2025-03-19 · to Taoiseach
27. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the commemoration for the liberation of Auschwitz. [9491/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Education
550. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will review and advise on the case of a child (details supplied) diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, ADHD and a moderate to severe intellectual disability who consultants state needs a special school place as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12481/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Education
553. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if she will examine the case of a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10630/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Education
696. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the number of sráith pictiúir that will be included in the 2026 Leaving Certificate oral Irish examination; if she will recognise that current fifth year students are anxious to have this clarified; if the current number of ten will be maintained; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11912/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Housing
882. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications for emergency replacement mobile homes or caravans that have been received by his Department; the number that have been approved and or are still under consideration and or have been rejected, by local authority; the estimated number of applications his Department expects to receive; the anticipated timescale to deal with all such requests after storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11449/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Housing
883. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the delay in appointing a Minister of State for Traveller Accommodation is adding to delays in administering this emergency funding to Traveller families rendered homeless after storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11450/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Social
1079. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is planning to introduce legislation to include non-binary people in the already-established Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12886/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Social
1080. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the work that has been done by his Department to examine legal recognition of non-binary and non-gendered people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12887/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Social
1081. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to ensure that non-binary people can have their gender correctly recognised on official forms and documents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12888/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Justice
1092. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice if he will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who died in custody in Mountjoy Prison on 3 January 2022 and establish when the required inquest into their death will take place; the reason the inquest has been delayed for such a long period since the person’s death; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10629/25]
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2025-03-19 · to Children
1301. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of how she will progressively reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month through the national childcare scheme (NCS), as promised in the Programme for Government, and also provide a timeframe; provide core funding documentation for 2025/26; explain why the core funding document does not indicate any increase in the NCS subsidy in 2025, while some creches have applied for an increase this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12280/25]
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2025-03-06 · to Health
69. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if she plans to meet the demands for pay restoration and pay parity for section 39 workers given the ballot for industrial action by section 39 workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10164/25]
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2025-03-06 · to Health
97. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health if she will immediately lift the pay and numbers strategy to ensure that all health services can be staffed to safe and adequate levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10163/25]
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2025-03-05 · to Finance
43. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider allowing individuals whose medical conditions require the use of extensive medical equipment to claim flat-rate relief for electricity, as those who use kidney dialysis machines currently do. [9957/25]
oral
2025-03-04 · to Taoiseach
2. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach to report on the implementation of the well-being framework launched by his Department. [6429/25]
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2025-03-04 · to Taoiseach
10. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will meet [6430/25]
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2025-03-04 · to Transport
96. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will give an assurance that any future changes in the licensing of taxis will retain the minimal requirements for an SPSV licence, the requirement for all vehicles to be licences and insured for hire and reward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9471/25]
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2025-03-04 · to Transport
110. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport the way in which he will address the failure of the new phase of BusConnects to provide the promised service, in particular along the E spine, including the promised hourly service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9522/25]
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2025-03-04 · to Transport
127. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if the NTA will review its current contracts with a company (details supplied) and ensure no new contracts are awarded given the repeated failures of the company to maintain the timetables it is set by the NTA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9473/25]
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2025-03-04 · to Transport
132. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if he will intervene to ensure that a service (details supplied) continues as is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9472/25]
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2025-03-04 · to Transport
148. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport in the context of the current public consultation on giving a one year licence extension on the ten year rule to taxis with 151 and 152 registrations, if following the consultation taxis that have gone over the ten years in the first weeks of 2025 and are currently inactive, can be relicensed; if he will give a one year extension for all taxis that were licences during the Covid pandemic period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9470/25]
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2025-03-04 · to Transport
274. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport if there has been a completed tendering process for bus routes (details supplied); the bodies that bid for these routes; and who won the contracts. [9628/25]
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2025-02-27 · to Education
32. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the plans to help primary and secondary school parents to cope with school costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8427/25]
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2025-02-27 · to Education
60. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the plans to increase the number of special education teachers, special needs assistants, and special classes to ensure that every child with special or additional needs receives appropriate supports in their preferred school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8426/25]
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2025-02-27 · to Education
65. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the plans to increase investment in education per student to at least a level equal to OECD average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8428/25]