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Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed or plans to review staffing levels in the local authorities in view of the changes to the strategic housing development and large-scale residential developments legislation; if he will sanction extra posts to ensure that staff increases needed in the planning sections of the local authorities will not pull...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Talk about being found out. Fianna Fáil is in combative mood tonight. Here is a Fianna Fáil hoax, that it got rid of strategic housing developments, SHDs, before Christmas. As we warned, there was a flood of SHD applications for build-to-rent developments by greedy developers trying to get in on the gold rush in our area as soon as that legislation went through. The Minster said...

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire and Sinn Féin for introducing this motion on the leaving certificate. People Before Profit is happy to support it. The very least we can insist upon in the particular situation of Covid-19 is that the voices of leaving certificate school students, as clearly expressed by them and their representative organisations, should be heard. They want a choice...

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The murder of Ashling Murphy was an absolutely unspeakable and horrific act. I can only imagine the grief the family must be feeling. I pass on my deepest sympathies to her family, her friends and her community. Against that background of an utterly unspeakable senseless murder and tragedy, it has been very heartening to see the amazing response of people throughout the country, coming...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why no criticism of NATO?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is NATO not expanding eastwards when it is not static?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vladimir Putin is a thug and autocrat who has done very nasty things recently to working people in Kazakhstan, has waged a bloody war in Chechnya and is now flexing his muscles in Ukraine, so of course we should condemn what Russia is doing, but why is there no condemnation from a country that is supposed to be neutral of a clear agenda by NATO to expand eastwards and escalate military...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One thing among others that people in the South and the North share is fuel poverty. The Taoiseach did not have a chance to respond in the last round of questions but I hope he will this time. Fuel poverty in the North is 22%. It is only 13% in England. The ESRI estimates one in six in the South suffers from fuel poverty. A RED C poll last year found that 19% of people turn the heat off...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still did not get an answer. That is two different rounds where I did not get an answer.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On price caps.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the European Council. [3610/22]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There were a couple of other questions.

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first year of the shared island initiative. [3609/22]

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will mention the risk of people dying unnecessarily during the winter, as happened in this country even before the energy price hikes. Every winter, 1,500 to 2,000 people, most of whom are elderly and less well off, die as a result of the impact of winter, the cost of heating and so on. That situation will get exponentially worse in light of the current price hikes. I again ask whether...

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: National Risk Assessment (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national risk assessment published by his Department. [3608/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The €100 to offset the absolutely shocking increases in energy and fuel prices that people will be struck with over the coming weeks is pathetically inadequate. I am already getting reports of people getting energy bills that have increased by 125% in the bills that are going to drop in the next few weeks. The Government needs to do more than it is doing. We have repeatedly urged it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government take the sort of radical action that is necessary?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will talk about that later.