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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Regardless of how much we have expanded our domestic renewable energy production, there is no sign it has made any difference. One would have expected it to have had some impact, but it has had none at all.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is interesting that this is the case. The mantra is we will solve the current problem. Actually, the Taoiseach is saying we are entering an era of high energy prices and that the inflation we are seeing currently will be around for quite a while. Simultaneously, people are saying that, if we wean ourselves off fossil fuels and dramatically expand domestic renewable energy production, we...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was shorter than Deputy Doherty.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Watch those taxes increase.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to pick Mr. Barnes up on the point about the large corporate tax revenues that are coming in and whether the best place to put them is in the rainy day fund or to pay down debt. I question that. I would have thought the lesson in the current situation is we need to invest rapidly in areas which are making us more vulnerable to this inflationary crisis - to insulate ourselves against...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Barnes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (1 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You will have to come down to join the party Bernard.

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Kerrane of Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion, which we support. Any contribution to people who are being absolutely hammered with cost-of-living increases should be welcomed. We are happy to support the motion. I want to set out what I believe needs to be a really comprehensive and radical package to deal with the inflation and cost-of-living crisis that...

Rising Food Prices: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what it is about. One can look at any sector, but that is what we have to address. My God, even Boris Johnson has, under pressure, been forced to acknowledge this point at some level and introduce a windfall tax on the profits of energy companies that are making a fortune. In the past week, Oxfam produced a report showing that if we put a 1.5% tax on everyone in this country who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The reason so many people have got involved in this new Cost of Living Coalition - pensioners groups, retired workers groups, student unions, single-parent advocacy groups, anti-poverty groups, trade unions and others - is because the measures the Government has been taking are a drop in the ocean; they are making little or no difference to the crucifying increases in the cost of living that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The recently established Cost of Living Coalition is calling people out onto the streets on Saturday, 18 June, for a national demonstration and day of protest to demand a comprehensive, urgent and radical package of measures to address the cost-of-living crisis that is absolutely crucifying workers, pensioners, students and people on low and middle incomes. It will be a protest against the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 700. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remedy the removal of a person (details supplied) from services at the National Gender Service, Loughlinstown Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27567/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 835. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the increases, if any, that he intends to make to the payment rates per-hectare to participants of the organic farming scheme in each year 2022 to 2027 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28089/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (31 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 836. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the specific improvements that he further intends to make to improve farmer participation in the organic farming scheme when it next reopens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28090/22]

Irish Apprenticeship System: Statements (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We desperately need more apprentices and we need to make apprenticeships and trades attractive to people in order to address the problems that our society is facing at the moment. Across the board, the lack of skills necessary to solve big social problems is enormous. Most obviously, there is a desperate need for qualified tradespeople, and that means apprentices, to build the houses we...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The ESRI report published today shows the utterly disastrous situation facing low-income households looking for and needing support to get affordable housing. It demonstrates that the Government's failure to provide the social housing necessary for low-income families and to have housing assistance payment, HAP, limits that are even close to the extortionate rents being charged out there, as...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the delays in assessments of need and the subsequent roll-out of services to children with developmental delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26977/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankie is two. His parents, very worried, came into my office this week because a paediatrician and their own observation established that Frankie has very serious developmental delays, is non-verbal and is showing all the signs of severe autism. They got a letter stating he would be assessed within the legally required time, and then they got a phone call shortly afterwards from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (26 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I certainly will refer it to the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. I have also been talking to one of the barristers who is taking many of these cases and the situation is very bad. This story suggests the establishment of the disability network teams is not making any difference; it is just another layer. We have assessments of need, disability network teams, CAMHS and NEPS. It is all...