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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I find it absolutely extraordinary that the Minister has managed to stay pretty stony-faced in all of this - I am sure he is aware of the strength of feeling that has been expressed by people - and has refused to give the answer or to explain the exclusion, despite the last-minute and desperate appeals that have been made in this House and, more importantly, from thousands of survivors as to...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of these amendments are technical in nature. Some of them deal with the right of people to appeal. As others have already done and given that I was not sure I would have a chance to speak, I will take this opportunity to make some points in what is really a last-minute appeal to the Minister. I will connect what I have to say to the amendments before us. I find it quite extraordinary...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak to it then.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps the Minister could explain why he is not accepting the amendment. It has been a week or two since the last time we debated this legislation, so perhaps the Minister might explain his reasoning. It is seeking to speed up decisions of the deciding officer to prioritise older applicants and to set out how the deciding officer should do this. Will the Minister explain why he is...

Anniversary of Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will also be moving an amendment. We will support Deputy Pringle's amendment. To make it clear, our amendment is additional to the Government amendment so it does not require the deletion of anything that is in the Government amendment but adds to it. Specifically, there is a condemnation of NATO's role in escalating the war, of increasing militarisation in Europe, a call for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Friday at 1 p.m., the Save Our Forests Save Our Lands alliance will hold a protest outside the headquarters of Coillte in Newtownmountkennedy precisely to address what more than 30 different environmental and rural organisations that have joined the alliance believe is the risk posed to biodiversity, to farmers, to local communities, to water quality, to sustainable forestry and to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What of the mandate of Coillte?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the draft list of strategic risks 2023 in the national risk assessment. [8829/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Nursing Homes (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with the Attorney General following publication of his report on nursing home charges and the disabled persons maintenance allowance. [8828/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Nursing Homes (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to ask the Taoiseach about something tangentially connected to the issue of nursing home charges. The overcharging of people has been discussed as a historical issue, but I came across a case this week of something that I suspect is much more widespread. I refer to a couple I met who are on the fair deal scheme and both of whom are in receipt of the State pension. The wife is in a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will next meet. [8827/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Pretty much everybody from the right, the left and the centre is now acknowledging that the housing crisis we are facing in this country, the lack of affordable accommodation, is now a very serious threat to the country's economic development. The eviction ban Bill, which thankfully the Government decided not to oppose this morning and which might progress, is a very small piece in that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to return to the issue of the mother and baby home redress scheme. As the Taoiseach is aware, I was adopted and I spent an uncertain amount of time in a mother and baby home. I am acutely aware that the vast majority of adoptions, where mother and child were separated, were a result of the stigma and pressure that was put by a frankly twisted morality of church and State about...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the Government trying to pull a fast one. Some of us will be in the Chamber for the entire time between now and when that debate starts. If we and many of the leaders are here, how on earth can we try to deal with Taoiseach's Questions and immediately after that, deal with a motion we have not seen and on which we will have no opportunity to submit amendments? That is completely...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no time to put down amendments.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be in here for Taoiseach's Questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: But you should justify the six months because there is no justification.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It can be amended slightly for that.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly will. By the way, we have written to the Ministers on these cases. There is also Jackie and her family who I have mentioned again and again. They were in court-----

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. We have written successively on these cases to the Ministers and all we get are acknowledgements. That is what we get - we get acknowledgements. Will the Government extend purchase in situto people over the thresholds who cannot afford the rent? Jackie and her husband, who are working, with their kids always paid the rent and did nothing wrong, . Since they got their first notice...