• People Before Profit Alliance TD for Dún Laoghaire
• Entered the Dáil on 26 February 2011 — General election
• Email me whenever Richard Boyd Barrett speaks (no more than once per day)

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• Subjects (based on headings added by the Dáil record): Covid-19 Pandemic, Forestry Sector, Tax Code, Housing Schemes, Tax Data

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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (25 Nov 2025)

“8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government regarding HAP tenancies where one income earner moves out, to ensure that the remaining tenant is not financially adversely affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [65844/25]”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (25 Nov 2025)

“In traditional council housing or social housing if the tenant's income changes or the number of people in the house changes because kids leave or anybody leaves, the tenant does not get thrown out of the house. They do not get threatened with possible homelessness. They do not build up arrears. The rent is adjusted to the tenant's means and to the number of people in the house. That does...”

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (25 Nov 2025)

“Sylvia is in a HAP tenancy for five years. From the beginning she was also paying a top-up to her landlord. She used to live with her eldest son. He has moved out. The landlord has also increased the rent and Sylvia used to get a carers' payment for her father, but her father passed away so she does not get that payment. She has been hit three different ways, with increased rent, lower...”

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• Has spoken in 65 committee discussions and Dáil debates in the last year — average among TDs.
• Has received answers to 635 written questions in the last year — well above average among TDs.
• People have made 11 comments on this TD's speeches — well above average among TDs.
• This TD's speeches, in the printed record, are readable by an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
• 73 people are tracking whenever this TD speaks — email me whenever Richard Boyd Barrett speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "public-private partnership") 3227 times in debates — well above average among TDs.
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