Results 521-540 of 26,383 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----after the recent French election with the Popular Front in France.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would rather not.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is true the public service has grown. After the disastrous austerity cuts, the Government had to go into reverse-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because of the damage it did after the economic crash. However, in key areas I have mentioned - CAMHS, CDNTs, teachers, nurses, allied health professionals - we have a serious problem. This is causing immense hardship for the service users. There are long waiting lists and double whammies for people with special needs and disability. The kids and parents get hit in education, and...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, well-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Every single one of what?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not enough.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the difference in pay and conditions between workers in section 38 and section 39 employments and those workers directly employed as public servants is making it more difficult to recruit and retain workers in key areas of public services where section 38 and section 39 agencies are the key providers of those...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Just to underline the point, in my area, a lot of mental health services are delivered by section 39 organisations. In others, they might be delivered by the HSE. We discussed earlier the difficulty of recruiting people to CAMHS teams and the CDNTs. One of the additional problems compounding that difficulty is that those section 39 workers are on lesser pay and conditions than they would...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is planning budgetary measures to address the problem of staff shortages across key areas of the public service, and the pressure these shortages are putting on existing staff and the quality of services for the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29516/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public expenditure measures he is considering in the forthcoming budget to address the growing problem of labour and skill shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29517/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Many areas of important public services such as mental health, disability, special needs, the health service and schools have chronic problems in recruiting and retaining enough people. We have staff shortages and this leads to a lot of hardship for many people who need those public services. Has the Minister any plans, especially in the context of the upcoming budget, to address this problem?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In my opinion that is not enough. It is not working. The child and disability network teams are chronically understaffed. They cannot recruit and retain people. CAMHS teams have half the staff they need. We had school principals in the Houses last week saying they and teachers are burnt out and stressed and they cannot recruit people. They are actually relying on people who are...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a nice rhetorical flourish-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but it does not answer the question. The Housing For All targets were for 33,000 houses a year. The Government does not want to debate what the Housing Commission has said, although it promised weeks ago that it would debate it. There is reason it does not want to debate it before the end of term. Including the deficit of 250,000 houses and future demand, the Housing Commission...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The step-by-step approach to addressing the housing crisis has left us with a deficit of 250,000 houses and record numbers of people who are homeless. Those numbers are growing every month. Approximately 100,000 households on housing lists have been waiting for ten, 15 or 20 years. There is a great deal of mystery. It is not us but the Housing Commission which says that a radical reset is...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are housing crises all over the world.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are all neoliberals like you. That is the problem.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So because it has never been done we cannot do it. We cannot do something new.