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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what changes he intends to make to the cost-rental rules so that those eligible on income grounds are not ineligible on affordability grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33209/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the NESC. [32542/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [32541/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we extend the the time for the grouping? The next one is short.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If someone on the social housing list who is facing eviction gets the housing assistance payment, HAP, it is nearly impossible to find accommodation. If someone is over the threshold for social housing, however, they are absolutely goosed because they do not get HAP and cost rental is for the most part unavailable, so they are trapped. I am dealing with a working mother and her child who...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say anything.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is simply no justification for a small number of people at the top to get salaries that are multiples of what the ordinary journalists, crew and workers in RTÉ get. This notion of "the talent" implied a sort of hierarchy. The truth is, to make a show, it is not just a contractor or highly-paid presenter that is needed. Sound people, researchers, a producer and all sorts of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation at RTÉ is an unholy mess and a scandal that has done extraordinary damage to the vital institution of public service broadcasting in this country. It involves secret payments mislabelled as consultancy; an organised deception of the public, the Dáil and the workers in RTÉ; a barter account that looks like a slush fund, and then three barter accounts that may look...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the committee for allowing me to come in on the discussion. I thank the ARC and all our contributors. I have some questions that may be a bit more detailed, but I have a couple of initial general questions and observations. First, the victims of this mess, and it is a mess, are the TV licence-paying public, who can go to jail if they do not pay their TV licence, and the vast...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am firmly of the view, and the witnesses are alluding to it, that where commercial and advertising are concerned, there is a tension between them and the public service mandate. I will go further than the witnesses may be willing to - if they want to comment on it, please do - and say that it is a malign influence that seriously threatens to undermine the integrity of public service...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would Mr. Lynch also say that the quid pro quofor the funding that could restore the integrity of public service broadcasting and deal with the tension by eliminating it, which is what needs to happen, is to address the other matter that does not sit well with people and is infuriating them in all of this, namely, the staggeringly high salary levels of an ultimately small, but fairly...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know whether anyone else wishes to comment on my question but I believe that means salary caps and reducing salaries at the top level much further. I have to be honest with the witnesses on that because it infuriates people. May I ask a few final questions?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just a couple of questions. A register of interests for, I believe, people on air was mentioned. Could I suggest that there should be a register of interests for everyone, including board and executive members? Even if someone is not on air, he or she can have significant influence over the expenditure of public moneys and, therefore, the question of conflicts of interest is...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure that is true for the vast majority. It is the case, however, certainly, from my knowledge of it, that a relatively small number of producers get the bulk of public financial support through various mechanisms. If that is not true, fine. Those in Equity are saying that they are being forced to sign buyout contracts both within RTÉ and in respect of productions funded by...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the independent film fund? Will we look at that?

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is RTÉ money.

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not. It is RTÉ expenditure.

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The victims of the secret payments and the organised cover-up and deception around those payments are the ordinary licence holders who can go to jail if they do not pay their TV licence and the nearly 1,800 workers in RTÉ who did not benefit from these staggering salaries, payments or slush funds but who often exist on low or very modest pay and endured pay cuts, pay freezes, bogus...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am slightly off topic here.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Transport Policy (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will make a tangential connection. The group of people I am talking about here are not making a request for the use of the Government jet, but they deserve a bit of support from the State. I commend Jack Marley, who is the first Irish amateur boxer to qualify for the Olympic Games in the heavyweight division. He is from Monkstown Boxing Club in my local area. I also congratulate...