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- 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?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not working.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We have never sanctioned Israel.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That approach has not worked so far.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new provisions he is putting in place to ensure affordable rents for students in view of the spiralling rent costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6442/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of extra places that would be needed in higher education to allow for an open access model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6439/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on discussions with the Minister for Education with regard to the possibilities of an open access model for third level that would remove the need for a traditional leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6438/22]