Questions asked 22 total

• Foreign 6 questions

  • 2019-04-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he plans to take on the widespread and systematic abuse of the rights of Palestinian children who are subject to military law, arrest and interrogation and not accorded the same rights as Israeli children or the rights that would be expected to be given to children under international law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17629/19]
  • 2019-04-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has discussed the outcome of the Israeli Knesset elections with his counterparts in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17628/19]
  • 2019-04-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the measures Ireland or the EU will take in response to the decision of the United States of America to recognise the Israeli annexation of the Golan Heights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17630/19]
  • 2019-04-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his discussions with his counterparts across Europe on the abuse of women prisoners in Saudi Arabia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17631/19]
  • 2019-04-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had with his European counterparts with regard to complaints by Western Sahara about abuse by Morocco of its fishing waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17632/19]
  • 2019-04-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure the speedy issuing of a passport for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17692/19]
• Taoiseach 4 questions

  • 2019-04-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach the role of his Department in preparing for a hard Brexit. [16401/19]
  • 2019-04-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent conversations with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May. [16746/19]
  • 2019-04-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with the British Prime Minister, Mrs. May. [17789/19]
  • 2019-04-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent conversations with the Prime Minister of New Zealand. [17790/19]
• Public 4 questions

  • 2019-04-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the impact on public finances of the heavy reliance on leasing, housing assistance payment, HAP and the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, in the housing policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18075/19]
  • 2019-04-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the impact on public finances of the heavy reliance on leasing, HAP and RAS in the housing policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18071/19]
  • 2019-04-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his priority areas for additional funding in budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18070/19]
  • 2019-04-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to carry out a value for money analysis across the public sector in advance of budget 2020 in respect of outsourcing and agency recruitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18074/19]
• Finance 3 questions

  • 2019-04-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a report on the local property tax review process undertaken by his Department; the reason for the deferral of changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17791/19]
  • 2019-04-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance if film producers who apply for and receive section 481 tax relief are responsible to ensure that the requirement to provide quality employment and training is met and have legal responsibility for employees and trainees on film productions funded by section 481 and that those legal responsibilities carry over from production to production in cases in which the same producer is involved; his views on whether the resulting number of jobs being created in the film industry is a small fraction of the number previously claimed by industry representatives in testimony and submissions to the Houses of the Oireachtas in view of the annual tax expenditure of €70 to €80 million on section 481; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17825/19]
  • 2019-04-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the penalties which will be imposed on film producers in receipt of section 481 tax relief that are found to have breached the legal rights of workers; if these will include withdrawal of the tax relief and other public funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16759/19]
• Housing 3 questions

  • 2019-04-17 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of HAP tenancies paying a top-up to the HAP payment out of all HAP and homeless HAP payments; the value of those top-ups; and the number of these tenants paying a top-up in receipt of a social welfare payment by local authority area. [17956/19]
  • 2019-04-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the number of housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenancies nationwide that are former county council owned properties sold through the tenant purchase schemes; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18104/19]
  • 2019-04-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the avenues open to a person who employed a registered architect who did not carry out their role of assigned certifier leaving their client living in a house which has not been certified since 2015; the number of formal complaints made to an organisation (details supplied) in the past 15 years; the number of architects sanctioned and or struck off following these complaints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18109/19]
• Transport 1 question

  • 2019-04-16 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which a qualified able seaman would update their qualifications and acquire a discharge book in order to return to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17238/19]
• Justice 1 question

  • 2019-04-18 Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which an Irish citizen who is in receipt of an invalidity pension can apply for a visa for a spouse from the Philippines in cases in which the marriage took place abroad and they have never resided here. [18093/19]