Results 1-20 of 30 for lottery speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is being left to rot in emergency accommodation. Then we get talk from the Government that cost rental is coming. However, it never comes in the volumes necessary to deal with the situation. A tiny bit comes and it is a lottery. It is like needles in haystacks for people hoping they might get one of these cost rental units. It is an absolute disaster, and 12,800 people, including...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...support. They are not eligible for any social housing that comes onstream. They could be waiting years before cost rental will be available and even when it is, allocation is carried out on a lottery basis so there is no guarantee. I ask the Taoiseach to come up with some assistance for people in that situation. A lottery system is okay when cost-rental homes or affordable housing are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (18 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...priority to people who have been waiting a long time through some scheme where some of them could have a first shot at some of the cost-rental schemes, rather than it just being a completely random lottery? That should be considered.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By the luck of the lottery I get a second chance to ask the Minister of State about this report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on, this woman, who is working and contributing to Irish society, is stuck in emergency accommodation. I then said that maybe cost-rental housing would be an option but cost rental is a flipping lottery. Somebody who has been four years in emergency accommodation with her child is in a lottery, that is if she can even get information about where the affordable or cost-rental housing is....

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...ten or 15 years have been heartbroken year after year because when their incomes go slightly over the threshold all of those years are gone and there is no affordable scheme for them. There was a lottery for the Balbriggan project. I see a certain fairness in that. However, people have been knocked off lists. Many of the income thresholds for social housing should be restored and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (10 Dec 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 27. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Act 2019 has been commenced; if not, when it will be commenced; the plans for enforcement of the provisions contained in the Act; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42509/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (16 Jan 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will make up the shortfall in funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) by the HSE lottery grant scheme in 2017 which will prevent it from implementing projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54655/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Data (7 Nov 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 663. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the drop in funding from the Health Service Executive national lottery grant scheme to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45848/17]

Other Questions: Harbour Authorities (7 Dec 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is to increase my chances in the lottery.

Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing (Extraction of Hydrocarbon) Bill 2016: First Stage (8 Nov 2016)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...work he was doing on that Bill, I was working to update a similar Bill that I had submitted last December, namely, the Prohibition of Hydraulic Fracturing Bill 2015. I withdrew it from the lottery because it had become clear in the aftermath of events in Antrim that the definition of hydraulic fracturing did not necessarily cover other forms of unconventional extraction of hydrocarbons...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of National Lottery: Discussion (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... I was one of those who opposed the sell-off and it does not altogether surprise me that since privatisation, what the witnesses appearing to be hinting at is occurring. Since the national lottery was first established 27 years ago, we have had 27 years in which the lottery worked perfectly and which never experienced an outage. Its brand recognition and credibility were untarnished in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of National Lottery: Discussion (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...wish to milk the brand that has all this credibility, while cutting investment and running the thing down in a manner that potentially could derail and damage the entire credibility of the national lottery. Does Mr. Jennings suspect that is what is going on? The owners just want to get the money and are not really-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of National Lottery: Discussion (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two further brief questions. Mr. Jennings drew a distinction between the lottery management and the company standing above it. If it is not the management, about who specifically are we talking? Does Mr. Jennings think the problems are with Camelot or the people above it, that is, with PLI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functioning of National Lottery: Discussion (11 Mar 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are the witnesses getting evidence from customers that they are fed up with all of this and that their attitude towards the lottery may change?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (27 Nov 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in view of the number of referrals the centre gets from probation officers and that the centre's other sources of funding will run out at the end of 2014, following the disbanding of the charitable lotteries fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43824/14]

Equality (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (5 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...of disbarring people simply because they are in receipt of social welfare. I urge the Government to support the Bill. I am limited in that my request for time to debate the Bill will go into a lottery but I would be happy to co-operate with the Government on using some of its time in the Chamber to bring forward a response to an emergency. It is about ending a practice of discrimination...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...an area such as gambling. It does not seem to be a very sustainable way to deal with the current climate. I do not see why, if what we are trying to do is continue to control gambling and have a lottery which will be a controlled form of gambling to finance good causes as has been the case in the past, we must shift from direct control by the Department to a regulator. It can only be...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The fact the Minister is setting up an office of regulator really is the giveaway that the Government is going for privatisation of the lottery. His line on this legislation and on this new development in terms of the lottery is that not a great deal is changing except that the State will get money up-front for the children's hospital but the setting up of the office of the regulator belies...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on Committee Stage. I restate my opposition to what the Minister is doing. There is no reason to change something that has worked well. Gambling is not something I endorse or promote. When the lottery was first introduced, many of us were concerned about the State's involvement in promoting gambling, but at least it was controlled and the proceeds of the national lottery have gone...