Results 5,421-5,440 of 27,073 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (5 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will work with the Minister for Social Protection to ensure that payments to artists with disabilities will be protected as the basic income for artists scheme is rolled out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22552/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Artists' Remuneration (5 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Obviously, the Minister is aware of the issue. I say, "Well done", to the Music and Entertainment Association of Ireland, MEAI, among others, for campaigning on this. However, it is worth saying, on the task force that was looking into the basic income project, there was no representative of people with disabilities and we need to be absolutely certain that there is not a disincentive for...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately introduce a ban on evictions as was done during Covid considering the escalating housing crisis and the urgent need to also put roofs over the heads of those fleeing war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22194/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (5 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a report on the vacant buildings his Department has already identified that might be used for emergency accommodation and if he will commit to continuously publishing this list as it is updated on a weekly basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22196/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (5 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the review of income limits for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22193/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Emergency Accommodation (5 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will investigate the empty seamark buildings on Merrion Road and see if they could play a role in providing emergency accommodation or could be retrofitted for social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22197/22]
- Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure the Minister had reasons for leaving the Chamber, but I am disappointed he is not here to hear what I have to say because the situation is just getting worse. We can bandy around alternative policies and plans until the cows come home but seeing is believing. I want the Government to understand, if it does not already, that the situation has got decisively worse in the past few...
- Eurojust: Motion (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is little doubt in my mind or I think in most people's minds that Russia has committed and is committing war crimes in Ukraine. Any efforts to hold them to account, to bring out the truth of those war crimes, to prosecute them and to deliver justice to the people who are victims of those crimes should be pursued. We absolutely must do that. However, I have little faith in the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How much time is there for them?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [18412/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage made very reckless, irresponsible and somewhat bizarre comments on the rising homelessness situation at the weekend when he suggested that it was to do with the number of European Economic Area, EEA, and non-economic area refugees - which, by the way, is everybody in the world - coming into the country, but not Ukrainians. I find this a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is that what they are doing by backing the Saudis?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Preserving democracy by supporting the Saudis.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is absolutely not true. It is rubbish.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not here.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Members of Fianna Fáil met Putin. We never met Putin.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach's old boss met him.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A few of the Taoiseach's old mates are doing business there too.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 May 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Saudi Arabia especially.