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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will Dr. Healy give a figure? I do not know if this corresponds to his idea of it, but in our pre-budget submission we argued that, as a minimum, people should go above about €290. I do not know if it was the MESL figure we used. We rounded it up to say people should have a minimum €300 per week.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are for going for it straight away.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Somebody said to me that if you listened to the Government ads, you would think that by going to the community welfare officer you would get a holiday in Barbados; in fact, you cannot even get an appointment.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to be clear, as I did not hear everything. Are there disagreements over the universal basic income and, if so, what are they? Could we hear more from Age Action? The point its representatives made about renters was important. I am dealing with a case that sums up the situation. It involves a couple, at least one of whom was working before he got early onset Alzheimer's disease....

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that the Minister has taken measures, but it is self-evident that they are not working. We have 600,000 people living on or below the poverty line, hundreds of thousands utilising food banks, hundreds of thousands in arrears with their energy bills from last year, and the highest number of people in emergency accommodation that we have ever seen. The numbers mask the reality of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can it apply to people over the threshold?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People who are over the threshold are being evicted. They are not entitled to anything.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Because it is not a full eviction ban.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The tenant in situ scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 4 2022 will be published. [4417/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For a very long time, some of us campaigned for the Government to introduce a policy of using public money to buy the homes of people threatened with eviction. Very slowly, and not very consistently, the Government has started to do that. It is not doing enough. A cohort of people is not getting any benefit from this, namely, those who happen to be over the social housing income...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel does not recognise Palestinian elections.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Palestinians in Jerusalem do not get to vote at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is involved in a brazenly naked illegal occupation of Palestinian land and territory. This week, its cabinet authorised further illegal settlements on land that, under international law, is designated for the Palestinians. In the first month of this year, 50 Palestinians died in what was the deadliest month we have seen in decades, with the Israeli army running constant military...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [5891/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----introducing rent controls and, crucially, stopping evictions into homelessness.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are they going to food banks if they are all doing so well?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the people going to food banks.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In one of the richest countries in the world we now have tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of people dependent on food banks for food. Hundreds of thousands of people are now in arrears with their energy and utility bills. Some 12,000 people are officially homeless in emergency accommodation, but actually the numbers are multiples of that. I believe the Government's...