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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which has not delivered one house in four years - not one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first house, six years later.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much will the affordable homes cost in Shanganagh?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Buy the properties.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have the debate before the summer recess.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are too many aspects to count in this Government's failure to deal with the cost-of-living crisis. Possibly, the worst of them all is the really catastrophic failure of the Government to deal with the housing crisis that is gripping this country. It is a housing "disaster", as Fr. Peter McVerry rightly put it. That failure means that we now have more than 10,300 families, including...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government finally bring in some rent controls to control rents so they are affordable? Will the Government start to deliver the social and affordable housing that means people who are working and struggling can afford a secure and affordable roof over their head?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why has the Government not announced the details of the review on the income eligibility thresholds for social housing and social housing support, despite a promise that this would be done before the summer recess? I will tell the House why. It is because the Government is terrified of what it will show about social housing need in this country and the cost to the State. The LDA has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will never be able to save and they will never be able to aspire to owning their own home. The Government has failed them completely and it will not even give these people eligibility for social housing support. It is obscene.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic Quarterly Report - Summer 2020: Economic and Social Research Institute (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not really ready but anyway; it is grand. I thank Dr. McQuinn very much for his contribution. By the way, I commend the ESRI on its recent housing reports. I know it was a different team of people but they are very useful analyses of what is going on with the housing situation. We in People Before Profit are of the view that we should control some of the prices of things that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic Quarterly Report - Summer 2020: Economic and Social Research Institute (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is in effect what we are doing. Does that not mean that we are chasing inflation and reinforcing the spiral? The ESRI paper from about a month ago identified the fact that the failure to raise the income thresholds for social housing is denying housing assistance support to people who should have it and would have in the past on the incomes they are earning. I agree that, in the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic Quarterly Report - Summer 2020: Economic and Social Research Institute (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think we agree we should increase investment on direct construction of public and affordable housing. I am specifically thinking of rents, though.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic Quarterly Report - Summer 2020: Economic and Social Research Institute (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Right, sorry. Just specifically on rents, I believe people who should be entitled to the housing assistance payment are currently not, as the ESRI paper suggested; however, that payment is not the ideal way to address the problem. Would it not be better if the rents were lower and we could control them so did not have to spend as much on subsidising rents?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Economic Quarterly Report - Summer 2020: Economic and Social Research Institute (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On wages and incomes, the witness alluded to the danger of potentially reinforcing the inflationary spiral. I hope he would agree that it is clear that wage demands or increased social welfare or pension payments have not created this crisis. They are lagging well behind the rises in the cost of living. At present, workers, pensioners, students and everybody except the corporations, which...

Defence Forces: Motions (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are using a faked concern for the well-being and welfare of our soldiers and our Defence Forces in order to abandon neutrality because they want to join the big boys club of the European militarisation project and get closer to NATO. PESCO is indistinguishably and inextricably connected to NATO in their interoperability. Let us be honest: Fianna Fáil and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning I joined Irish Wheelchair Association workers on the picket line in Clontarf. I was shocked at what they told me. They told me that they worked during the height of the Covid pandemic doing things like collecting swabs from nursing homes and getting Covid because they were working with patients at very close quarters. They are not getting the €1,000 bonus, which is an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is completely unacceptable that the Dáil would consider going on recess in two weeks' time when inflation is running at 10%. That means that ordinary households, workers and pensioners, have each lost around €3,500 in income. That is the reality. Yet, the Government expects them to wait until mid-September for action to be taken. For three or four weeks now, I have asked...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a contributory or non-contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35460/22]

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: First Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels by limiting them to a maximum of a quarter of monthly household incomes and to establish a National Rent Authority for this purpose. The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: First Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."