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Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am listening.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The NTA because it is the one that tenders the routes. The NTA has given the 20% reduction but it is also the body that makes decisions about tenders. Bus workers do not want reduced fare income to be used as essentially a means of then demanding cheaper tenders and pressure being put on the pay and conditions of bus workers, who actually need a pay rise at the moment. They do not need...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax profits instead of consumers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government never taxes profits.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline for the citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [21861/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the climate action delivery board co-chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [21862/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit has for many years campaigned for free public transport on buses, trains and the Luas as the type of radical measure necessary to increase the use of public transport. We have also called for much more investment in public transport to make it more frequent and reliable and a more attractive service to use. The Government has gone a tiny way towards what we have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Price matters.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the economy will next meet. [18450/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The delivery of affordable housing is absolutely key to economic recovery. My colleague in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Councillor Melisa Halpin, just received a reply from the local authority about Cherrywood, which is the biggest residential development going on in the State. The local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, funding which the State extended to the developers was...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We found out recently that 33 families and households who had been on the housing list in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council area for many years were removed from that list last year because they slightly exceeded the income thresholds. For at least five years, we have been asking for the income thresholds to be increased. We have had promise after promise by the Minister. He...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When is it going to happen? Will the people who have been removed get their time back?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps following on from that point, Mr. O’Connor put it well there when he said that the rising cost of energy is going into the pocket of energy providers. This very accurately describes what is going on. Somebody is benefiting from these price rises and it is the fossil fuel companies and the energy providers. I wonder if any consideration has been given or has there been any...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I know that some of this is policy although I challenge the economic thinking. I defy anybody to provide evidence that where one increases the supply of housing, rent or house prices come down because that did not happen in the Celtic tiger period and there is no sign that is going to happen now. Obviously it is up to the Government to think about that but economists or somebody must...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One would be hard pushed to find evidence anywhere and not just in that period. I cannot envisage the circumstances in which house prices or rents are going to fall here even as supply increases. I think that privately delivered supply will dry up as soon as they cannot make money and they can only make money by charging very high prices. I just do not see how a reduction is going to happen.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a question about energy prices. Ireland produces more renewable energy than we have ever done before but that has not had an impact on the cost of electricity. In fact, the cost of electricity has increased rather than decreased. Does that situation give pause for thought as to what is going on? Even though we can increase our supply of renewable energy, which we have been told is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [20604/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are 2,000 medical scientists in this country. The Medical Laboratory Scientists Association, MLSA, is going on strike on Wednesday, 18 May, Tuesday, 24 May, and Tuesday, 31 May. The reason is that, way back in 2001, there was a report of the expert group on medical laboratory technician and technologist grades that recommended that medical laboratory scientists should be put on pay...