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National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government does not have the guts to stand up publicly and argue with us or oppose what we asking for here, which is an emergency review of the minimum wage. In our view, there is a need to increase it to, as an absolute minimum, €15 per hour. The Government is going to accept our motion but with absolutely no intention of acting on it. The public out there should know that this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that families of persons with dementia have been informed that day services provided at a facility (details supplied) are due to be cut from three days to two days per week; the reason this is the case, rather than increase the number of persons permitted to attend three days per week to the pre-pandemic level of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are going to protect and improve biodiversity and increase forest cover as part of that, something radical has to change in Coillte, the State forestry company. The Riverstick forest sale is an absolute disgrace. Before Christmas I had to help the local community in the Enniskerry area to ring alarm bells about Coillte’s plan to sell a public forest in that area, which is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a Fianna Fáil-run council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a Fianna Fáil-run council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil runs that one with the Green Party.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil and the Green Party run that council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not been opposing council developments.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the low paid.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [6400/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Economic recovery means very little if you cannot put an affordable roof over your head. In my area, average rents are now €2,200 a month and average house prices are in excess of €600,000. If you are on HAP, you are goosed, because the most they will give you is €1,900. So, what are you supposed to do? I would like to know what the Taoiseach thinks I should say to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the profits of the energy companies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment last met; and when it will next meet. [6399/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [6398/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The average cost of retrofitting a house is approximately €53,000. It can be €70,000 or €80,000 for older houses to get them up to the highest building energy rating, BER. If someone is wealthy, the mooted changes in grants will benefit him or her. They might allow someone to cover the difference between €25,000 and €53,000 or more. However, the hardest...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Working people and the least well-off in our country are being absolutely crucified by the rising cost of living. The cost of energy is going up and there are unaffordable rents and real pay cuts for people, with inflation running way ahead of the pay increases received. People Before Profit has been very clear. We think that there should be controls on the cost of energy and on rents and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Energia saw its profits go up by 46% last year.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not ask those companies to pay for the cost-of-living crisis by giving workers a decent pay increase and by controlling the cost of living?