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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister first became a Minister in the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government in 2011. This was the Government that in its programme said it would eradicate homelessness in five years. That Government made a decision in June 2011 to discontinue capital investment in social housing and to rely instead on the outsourcing of social housing to the private sector. Since 2011, average rents have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not an accident, it was not an emergency, it was a policy. Let us just be honest about it. It was a policy. The reason so few houses were built in the year the Minister referred to was because a policy decision was made in 2011 to discontinue them. Meanwhile, we were selling properties, which we are now renting back at extraordinary cost. The target for HAP, RAS and leasing was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate what the Minister said. I and, more importantly, people in the sector have campaigned for this for a long time because income and employment insecurity is rampant. While I welcome this measure, let us not sit back on our laurels and act as if this is a panacea. We should remember that the background to this, which I acknowledge predates the Minister's tenure, is that we see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said, I genuinely welcome this pilot. It is a step forward. It is a pity it took a pandemic for us to realise just how important culture and arts are to us and how life is so much diminished when those in the sector are not able to perform live and so on. I hope we have learned something from the pandemic in this regard. While I welcome the scheme, does the fact that it is for three...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria and timeline for the pilot scheme for arts and culture workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55224/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to the basic income pilot scheme for workers in arts and culture sector. Will the Minister give assurances that all disciplines of arts, culture and music and the crew that support the artists and performers, will be eligible to apply for the pilot scheme?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is quite an extraordinary response from the Minister. In the beginning it was referred to as "a studio". This studio was set up with the assistance of Seán Lemass in 1958. It then became the National Film Studios of Ireland in the 1970s. It was where "My Left Foot" and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" were filmed. I could go through the list of classic films. This is part...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the EU says is countries are supposed to create with state aid to the film industry a permanent pool of skills and labour. Virtually nobody has a job in the Irish film industry. They go from film to film, as the producers keep saying. In cases before the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, at the moment, film producers have come in and said to people who worked on those film...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will transform their lives with a lot of cash. It will put big money in their pockets.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the recent sale of a studio (details supplied) to a large real estate corporation particularly given that the State had only recently disposed of its share of the studios and that the studios have received large amounts of public funding over many years; her further views on whether it is now time to take the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the dead of August, a time when shady deals are often done, Ardmore Studios was sold to an American capital investment firm called Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital, an American real estate firm. This is the former national film studios set up in 1958 with State assistance. It was the National Film Studios of Ireland in the 1970s and it has now been handed over to a real...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, absolutely.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind the Minister that this is a precedent, a point I put to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. There have been comments that people are skipping the queue. They are HAP tenants. They are on the list. Some are quite elderly. Some have children and are very vulnerable. They are well up the list. We have to remember that 13 empty apartments have been sitting there for two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure that the remaining tenants in a location (details supplied) who are all in receipt of social housing support are not made homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55036/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle very much and I appreciate this. I raise the issue of the residents of St. Helen’s Court in Dún Laoghaire, which is a multi-unit apartment complex directly across from my office, which was bought out by vulture funds a number of years ago. The first vulture fund made two attempts to mass evict on the grounds of sale, refurbishment or various...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that the Minister has engaged and that efforts have been made. Here is the irony. This vulture fund went into the RTB and the tenants said they thought that the claim the fund was going to sell was a ruse because the fund owns 20 apartments and said that it was only going to sell the ones where there were tenants, and the ones that were sitting empty, where the fund had managed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to announce the new income limits for social housing; if he will review the new requirement in social housing assessment regulations that means that the income of the past 12 months of the applicant is taken into account rather than the current income (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider proper rent controls that would see rent pegged to average incomes and set by a rent authority considering the constant increase of rents despite RPZ legislation and amendments to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55037/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Maritime Jurisdiction (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his input and the input of the NPWS in the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021 with regards to the biodiversity of Ireland’s seas and nearshore and the plans for increasing the marine protected areas in the interest of protecting the environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55038/21]