Results 581-600 of 27,063 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance if he read the latest wealth report by an organisation (details supplied); and if it will make him re-consider a wealth tax on the assets of multi-millionaires and billionaires to address inequality in the distribution of wealth. [5106/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Industrial Disputes (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has had or if he is planning to have discussions with the Minister for Health regarding the planned industrial action of Section 39 workers and similarly the recent ballots for industrial action by other health workers in relation to the 'pay and numbers' strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (13 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the rules for grants for taxi drivers to replace their vehicles with electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5234/25]

European Union Regulations: Motion (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am happy to support this motion for Ireland to opt in to the negotiating mandate on the EU-UK youth experience scheme. It is worth noting that the consequences of the anti-immigrant sentiment that drove the right wing campaign in the UK against the EU are now becoming apparent. It should be a salutary warning to people who want to go down the road of anti-immigration that it comes back to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Classical economists Karl Marx and David Ricardo, on different sides of the political spectrum, agreed that all wealth is derived from labour. One of our biggest problems is skills shortages in every sector of our economy, whether it is construction, the health service, education or retail. The reason is increasing numbers in their tens of thousands of young people are bailing out of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Development (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Society is not a football game. Perhaps the Taoiseach thinks it is. We need our housing to be affordable for young people and to remove financial barriers to education that drive many of our young people out.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not very stable for tenants.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Impose minimum standards.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am talking about rehousing people when they are in those conditions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should impose minimum standards.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: About a week ago, I raised the plight of tenants in Sallynoggin who have been living in council houses for years with infants and children where there is mould all over the walls, all of the time, water running down the insides of the walls and rodent infestations. The tenants are still being forced to live there. It has been earmarked for redevelopment but the point is that the tenants...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sallynoggin. Since I raised this, the people are still in there and still looking to get out. By the way, the Rialto Action Group took a legal case against Dublin City Council some years ago because these kinds of conditions are a breach of the European Social Charter. The group won the case. The Sallynoggin case is similar. These people's rights are being breached by the local...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government refers to work-life balance, quality of life, quality employment and it even contains the phrase "a secure future for all living things", which is quite a noble ambition. I want to shout out for a group of workers very close at hand who do not have any of those things. They are the majority of people who work for Oireachtas TV, who broadcast proceedings from...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach agree with me?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have a place on the commission but the Government has a place.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just thought I would start the ball rolling.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was only raised with me last week.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach support them?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (12 Feb 2025)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I bet you I have been on more protests outside the Russian embassy than you have.