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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the request by a committee (details supplied) to meet with her and her officials to discuss the Covid-19 supports they need given the impact of public health measures on their ability to earn income over recent months; if she will respond positively to the request for a meeting; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with the Minister for Social Protection and the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment in relation to ensuring and maintaining income and grant supports for musicians and performers; if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties and lack of supports being encountered by grassroots...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the backlog in driving test waiting lists will be cleared. [2704/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I ask them not to take my comments personally. I know they are mandated in a particular way. I am one of the people who voted against the LDA to whom Deputy McAuliffe referred. I am very concerned about the announcement today and about particular elements of Mr. O'Rourke's opening statement in that he referred repeatedly to cost rental and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on from Deputy Gould's question and my own earlier question, I am worried about the levels of rent in cost rental. The statement Mr. O’Rourke made about 75% being what the LDA will deliver as cost rental concerns me, as I said. This is land that, if it was developed under the old model, would be 100% income-based rent, based on the differential rental scheme. This is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry to tell Mr. O’Rourke the average house price is €590,000. It is shocking. I know he is from the area. As a supplementary question, I understand the agency is bound by its mandate but Mr. O’Rourke’s answer is very revealing and, frankly, alarming. I do not blame him for that but it really is alarming. We have the biggest and only large development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is my point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps Mr. O’Rourke or Mr. Coleman will comment on it. This really is the truth about cost rental, namely, we cannot control the rents for cost rental on public land. We cannot control them because they are linked to the cost of construction and the LDA does not know what the cost of construction is going to be and it is dependent on the market to dictate that. That is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a wealth tax. It is seriously not a wealth tax.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a wealth tax. Give me a break.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a few hundred quid that billionaires are paying.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They should be taxed for property.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The billionaires are claiming-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For many years, People Before Profit has called for a wealth tax to try to redistribute wealth in what is one of the richest countries in the world where wealth has increased exponentially year after year, including during the pandemic. We now have the ironic situation that today, 100 of the richest people in the world have sent a begging letter to the political leaders of the world asking...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last night, I was privileged to speak at a meeting marking the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. It was attended by hundreds and hundreds of people from this country, including many young people wanting to learn about the history of Bloody Sunday. The meeting was addressed by Kate Nash of the Bloody Sunday families, people from the Black Lives Matter movement and people from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the specific case, I ask if anything can be done, please.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last year, People Before Profit brought a Bill to the Dáil that proposed a constitutional referendum to enshrine the right to housing. There was a commitment in the programme for Government to have a referendum on housing but nothing is happening on these things. There are consequences for real human beings as a result of the Government's failure to do something on this. On dozens...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On two occasions I have raised the plight of the accessible community transport service in south Dublin with the Taoiseach. It provided door-to-door transport for people in wheelchairs and with severe mobility issues. He did respond to me in a letter but to be honest the letter did not offer any comfort in terms of the need for the service to replace its buses. It does not have the buses...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit of his Department. [60209/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we were not discussing the utterly tragic and terrible death of Ashling Murphy this week and the implications it has for how our society treats women, we would be discussing another tragic death of a 17-year-old man who took his own life after leaving the care of a hospital and who was on the radar of Tusla. That speaks to the terrible and consistent failure to provide adequate mental...