Barry Ward — Fine Gael
0 votes ·
0 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.
Cormac Devlin — Fianna Fáil
0 votes ·
2 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked2 total
Further and Higher Education2 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32065/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will review the operation of a liaison service (details supplied) to ensure it operates in line with other departments and agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32066/24]
Richard Boyd Barrett — People Before Profit-Solidarity
0 votes ·
92 questions ·
0 new lobbying returns
Questions asked92 total
Housing30 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring 1, 2, 3 and 4-bed homes, per unit in Dublin under the various different acquisitions programmes and schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32495/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the average cost of acquiring 1, 2, 3 and 4 bed homes, per unit, outside Dublin under the various different acquisitions programmes and schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32496/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated per year cost of planned Part V purchases under Housing for All, the projected cost per unit for 1, 2, 3 and 4-bed homes; the number planned to be purchased for each year, broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32497/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of Part V homes bought, by each local authority in 2022 and 2023; the average cost of each home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32498/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the construction cost of building 1, 2, 3 and 4-bed homes on local authority land; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32499/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes built by local authorities or AHBs under each different funding stream; the cost, size and county of each of these homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32500/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of affordable to purchase homes have been delivered by each individual council over 2022 and 2023; the cost to the Exchequer of these homes, broken down by council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32501/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost to the Exchequer of increasing income limits for social housing by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32502/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of providing enough women’s refuge places to bring Ireland in line with our commitments under the Istanbul Convention. [32503/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of increasing the number of refuge places to 300; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32504/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32505/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of providing emergency accommodation for homeless people in Dublin in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32506/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full year cost of doubling Traveller specific accommodation capacity. [32507/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of establishing a Traveller ombudsman. [32508/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full year cost of increasing HAP limits to the average cost of rents in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32509/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full cost of retrofitting all local authority owned homes by 2030 and the estimated average cost per home in 2025; the number to be carried out in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32510/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expected revenue yield from an increase in the derelict site levy to 20% in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32512/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of increasing Part V to 25% social and 25% affordable over the next five years and in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32513/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of purchasing 50% rather than the minimum of 10% under the Part V requirements or 20% under the new part V requirements of all residential units due to be completed in 2025 and 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32514/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of 100% redress for mica affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32515/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated cost of 100% redress for buildings defects redress affected homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32516/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year cost of bringing the housing adaptation income limits and the maximum grants in line with inflation and the real costs of major adaptations such as full rewiring and reroofing. [32605/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full-year cost to increase the house building targets to 56,000 per annum, in line with the recommendations from the Housing Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33421/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to estimate the total cost and the per-annum cost of increasing the number of social homes to 20% of the total number of all homes over the next five years (allowing for overall housing output to increase to 56,000 units per annum, as per the Housing Commission recommended targets); the estimated full-year cost in year one of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33422/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the estimated full-year additional cost in 2025 and each of the following four years (2026, 2027, 2028, 2029) of doubling the existing Housing for All targets for social, cost rental and affordable purchase homes respectively, setting out the Government’s own projected estimates for the costs of delivering on the current targets for Housing for All for each housing type, per unit and per year; to provide the cost estimates, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33424/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full details of the different streams of funding for local authorities and the areas in which this money can be spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33425/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the full total of the spend by each local authority on housing maintenance; if all of this funding comes from rent collected in each local authority; if they have latitude to increase this figure or seek additional funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33426/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to estimate the full-year cost or savings from using direct labour for housing maintenance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33427/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of local authority homes, broken down by local authority, that have chronic damp problems; his plans to address this; the estimated cost of doing so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33428/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he has carried out any cost-benefit analyses of in-house maintenance versus outsourcing across all local authorities. [33429/24]
Finance22 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of index linking tax credits. [33265/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from an increase in the vacant homes tax to 25% in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32511/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by imposing a minimum effective corporate tax rate of 15% on pre-tax gross trading profits before deductions, reliefs and allowances and assuming no behavioural change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33727/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by imposing a financial transaction tax of 0.1% on shares and securities and 0.01% on derivatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33728/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated disallowing historic losses (losses forward) as tax deductions for banks and insurance companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33729/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated by abolishing the special assignee relief programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33730/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year revenue that would be generated by establishing four new income tax bands of 50% on earnings between €100,000 and €150,000, 55% on earnings between €150,000 and €200,000, 60% on earnings between €200,000 and €275,000, and 65% on earnings over €275,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33731/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of abolishing the local property tax and introducing a tax on non-principal private residences (NPPR) as follows: single NPPR - €1,000; ten or less NPPRs - €1,500 per property; 11 or more NPPRs - €2,500 per property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33732/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance to provide a full-year estimate of the revenue that would be generated by introducing a levy of 33% on commercial aviation fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33733/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance to provide a full-year estimate of the revenue that would be generated if Ireland imposed the European Commission’s proposed tax on aviation fuel in Budget 2023 and where that tax will be imposed on all flights including executive and corporate flights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33734/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by establishing a new levy of 5% on the profits of all airlines and aircraft leasing companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33735/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost of abolishing the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33737/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by increasing stamp duty on non-residential property to 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33738/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance to provide a full-year cost of lost VAT to the Exchequer by introducing price controls that cap petrol/diesel at €1.30 and €1.40 per litre, electricity at €0.25 per kilowatt hour, natural gas at €0.08 per kilowatt hour and oil (kerosene) at €1 per litre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33739/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of reducing the pension earnings limit from €115,000 to €60,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33740/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by increasing capital gains tax to 40%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33741/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year revenue that would be generated by establishing a new rate of corporate tax of 50% on the profits of all energy companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33742/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost for index linking the existing tax bands to inflation in Budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33743/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance to provide a full-year cost for increasing tax bands by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33744/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of reversing the 2023 carbon tax increase and postponing the 2024 increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33745/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the full-year cost of abolishing USC for all earners and replacing it with a higher income social charge of 10% on all earnings over €100,000 euro per year; the revenue that would be generated by the introduction of this new higher income social charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33746/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Finance the number of people who do not use their full tax credit; the total cost of refunding unused tax credits to the people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33750/24]
Further and Higher Education11 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated full-year cost of a new staff member in each education and training board to promote disabled students’ participation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32603/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost to introduce a living wage for all apprentices. [33272/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to make available emergency accommodation at the beginning of each academic year for students who are due to commence their education without securing accommodation for the first six-weeks of term. [33274/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost to pay a living wage to all students engaging with mandatory placement as part of their study. [33276/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost to provide students on SUSI who partake in mandatory placement an additional maintenance grant of €250 a month like Erasmus. [33277/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost to fully fund the provision of 30,000 student beds to bridge the gap in student accommodation. [33278/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost to with abolishing the holiday earnings for SUSI. [33279/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost for SUSI grant support be extended beyond the list of approved institutions and courses for example, there are currently nine higher education institutes offering courses through the CAO system that are not eligible for SUSI grants. [33280/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost to abolish all post-graduate fees. [33285/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost to cap post-graduate fees to the same as undergraduate €3,000. [33286/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated cost for SUSI to cover 100% fees for post-graduates. [33287/24]
Education8 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the number of WTE SNAs, SETs and EALs employed at primary and post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32674/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education to provide continual professional development for ‘mainstream’ teachers, SETs and SNAs with regard to teaching and providing supports in a special class setting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33702/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education to provide a report on the needs based in school multidisciplinary teams that operate in ten primary schools in the north-east inner city; to provide a full-year cost of providing this across all primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33703/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education if school-based speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists are part of the local CHO-sanctioned posts, or are in addition to those; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33704/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the number of unqualified teachers employed in schools at both primary and second level in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33705/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the number of substitute days in primary and secondary schools that were not filled in the 2023-24 school year; the resulting total amount of unpaid salary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33706/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education how special needs assistants are allocated to primary schools, special schools and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33707/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education the number of children with special educational needs who had access to special needs assistants in the 2022-23 and 2023-24 school years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33708/24]
Public Expenditure6 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker is paid a minimum of €15 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32612/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated full-year cost of ensuring that every public sector worker earning under €100,000 receives a pay increase of 10% in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32613/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of people working in the public sector earning less than the living wage of €15 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32614/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated cost of a 1% increase in public sector pay for all those earning less than €100,000. [33264/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated cost of abolishing sub-minimum pay rates in the public sector. [33266/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated cost of paying apprentices in the public sector the minimum wage from year one of their apprenticeship. [33267/24]
Social4 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost to allow part-time workers and learners to avail of the back-to-education payments. [33273/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of expanding the free travel scheme to include people in receipt of domiciliary care allowance and those on carer’s allowance. [32604/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to increase the domiciliary care allowance by €100 per month. [32607/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the under-25 rates of social welfare in line with the standard rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32608/24]
Tourism3 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the estimated full-year cost of doubling the current spending on the arts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32609/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the estimated full-year cost of increasing the spending on the arts by 10%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32610/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the estimated full-year cost of increasing spending on the arts to the EU average of 0.6% of GDP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32611/24]
Environment2 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the full-year cost of providing a €100 electricity credit to each principal private residence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33747/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the National Broadband Plan rollout of fibre broadband will be completed in the Foxrock area of Dublin; the reason it has been delayed; when this will be rectified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32322/24]
Transport2 questions
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport the estimated cost to introduce free public transport for all students. [33270/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Transport his views on the fact that taxi drivers with 2015 registrations or older who lost two years work and income during the Covid pandemic, income that would be needed to assist in financing the purchase of a new vehicle when they reach the ten year time limit, are not being given the same two year extension that was given to 2013, 2014 and other cars who received this compensation for work and income lost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33709/24]
Health2 questions
2024-07-23Deputy 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. [32606/24]
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost for enabling student health facilities to prescribe hormones and offer blood tests to trans and non-binary students. [33288/24]
Enterprise1 question
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the full-year cost of introducing three new bank holidays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33751/24]
Rural1 question
2024-07-23Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the instructions she intends to give local authority animal control sections regarding the rehoming of currently impounded XL bully dogs and other restricted breeds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32287/24]