Results 1-20 of 320 for going forward speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think Deputy Smith is not coming in. I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this important motion. People Before Profit strongly believes we should abolish the means test for carer's allowance. Indeed, we are against means testing full stop. I will talk a bit more about that. In the case of carers, it is completely unacceptable. Hundreds of thousands of people in this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...;il, the Raise the Roof campaign will hold a major rally demanding secure and affordable housing for all. The coalition of trade unions, housing groups, political parties and student unions will put forward a motion in Private Members' time on the same day calling for the Government to acknowledge its failure to address the unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis and demanding that...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a single income I would say that approximately 70% of people are now priced out of being able to afford the rents or house prices being charged in Dublin and many of the urban centres. We are going to have to face that fact, because I do not think we have faced it. The market is not capable of delivering affordable housing for between 60% and 70% of the population, and it never will be....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chair for accommodating me. Amendment No. 779 seeks to amend the Government's proposals in the legislation around the duration of planning permissions. Currently, in the Bill in front of us, the duration of a planning permission "shall be five years from the date of grant". I understand there is also scope for an additional five years. We are suggesting that this be reduced to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My amendment No. 768 is very similar in its rationale to Deputy Matthews's one. This is a very real issue. Let us say a Part 8 application is put forward that goes out to public consultation. Members of the public make their submissions and on the basis of those, very substantial changes, or what might be deemed substantial or material changes, are made. That can be then agreed and the...

Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (6 Mar 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...the Recruitment of Researchers;”. These amendments are related to the earlier discussion but in a way they are the most substantial ones. Dealing with amendments Nos. 2 and 3 that I have put forward, they are seeking to include, as an objective of the agency: to offer researchers sustainable career development systems at all career stages and to endeavour to ensure that...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward the motion to discuss SMEs and the supports they need. The first thing I want to do is to advocate on behalf of the 26,000 small enterprises who are the taxi drivers of this country. They are very concerned, at the moment, about moves to deregulate the taxi industry that are being spearheaded by some other SMEs that - do not get me wrong -...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... Far from it. We could bolster that potential significantly if we resolved some of these issues, however. I hope we are all on the same page. I think we are. We want to see lots of resources going into the Irish film industry to create employment, more films and a stronger industry, but there are legitimate questions, debates and problems that need to be addressed as part of that....

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... Obviously, there is a balance that we have to get right because we want freedom of expression, we want open and robust political debate, we want the right to disagree with each other to put forward controversial views and to put forward dissenting and minority views that sometimes may not be terribly popular. We need to defend that too. At the same time, we need to prevent people...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...child and family homelessness as we head towards Christmas. Every single month we have seen a new and shameful record in the levels of child and family homelessness. While many might be looking forward to Christmas, for many mothers, children and families, some of whom have endured three and four years in homelessness, this is going to be a pretty difficult, if not traumatic, time. We...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (30 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...to improve and streamline those processes is a reasonable objective to make things more efficient, streamlined and consolidated. This is the main rationale for the Bill that seems to have been put forward by the Government. We have, however, heard evidence from others here and experts in this area that we are not off to a good start with this Bill in that regard. We have a Bill of...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (22 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...have been displaced in the West Bank, including 424 children; — that more than 2,200 Palestinians in the West Bank have been detained, including 24 journalists; — that the number of Palestinians held in administrative detention increased from 1,319 to 2,070 between 1st October and 1st November; — that the Government has repeatedly called for a humanitarian...

Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. Shame on the United States, shame on Britain, shame on the European Union and shame on this Government for continuing to give Israel impunity while it carries out a genocide and a massacre on the people of Gaza. On 18 October, Solidarity-People Before Profit put forward an amendment to a Government motion on Gaza where we...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what progress has been made on a report she received proposing the introduction of a teacher relocation scheme; what her plans are going forward in addressing this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48720/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...excess of €4 million would generate €8 billion, an eye-watering sum of additional revenue for the Exchequer and therefore for housing, health and infrastructure and to address poverty. You can go through the list of good causes that amount of money could be put to to fundamentally transform many aspects of our society. It is a lot of money. In our budget submission, we...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (7 Nov 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ..., the one that benefits the film producers and that was requested by the film producers to raise the expenditure cap on the credit from €70 million to €125 million. The rationale they have put forward is that this will open up the possibility of bigger film productions and attract investment for bigger film productions. I do not really have a problem with that. I have to...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...during the first ban on evictions during Covid. Ever since then it has gone up. The Government says when it brought in the second temporary ban for a few months in the winter of 2022 that the ban did not stop a number of people going into homelessness and therefore it was not working. It is true people continued to enter homelessness, but the vast majority of those did so because they...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Doherty and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion on mortgage interest hikes that are inflicting extraordinary hardship and suffering on tens and tens of thousands of homeowners and mortgage holders who are being crippled with these ten hikes over a short period of time. This has put many of them into a completely unsustainable situation about which the Government...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I apologise for being late. I was outside the gates of Leinster House at a protest on the cost of living. I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this important motion. I am very grateful to grassroots football for the role it played in my life, instilling certain discipline, experience and education about the importance of working together with others, team discipline,...