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Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our ability to reopen society to cope with Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 healthcare is critically dependent on our intensive care unit capacity which, before Covid-19 and still, remains chronically under-resourced, understaffed, and about half of the capacity of the EU average per 100,000 population. I had an eye-opener in respect of the failure of the Government to address this problem when an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the six Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike to protest their administrative detention and imprisonment without charges or formal trial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51389/21]

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my area, if you find yourself having to rent a place, you are, by definition, in a housing crisis unless you are very rich. The average rents are €2,200 per month. To be honest, you would be lucky to find a place for that and rents continue to rise. Let us think about that. You would need after-tax income of €26,000 to pay the average rent in my area. That is completely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [46801/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [50786/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the shared island unit. [50785/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over years now, I have repeatedly asked about the social housing income thresholds being raised. I have been told by the last Government and this Government that they are being reviewed. This review has been going on for years and we are never given a date for when it is going to be completed. I have to draw the conclusion there is a systematic policy to cull people from the housing list...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Get rid of the thresholds.

Death of Sir Davis Amess MP: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I extend our deepest sympathies to the wife, daughters, family, friends and constituents of David Amess. To be murdered in that way is really horrific, terrible and tragic. It should certainly give us all pause for reflection. As others have alluded to, whatever about political differences and the need for robust debate, a critical part of our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not need houses at €500,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not at €500,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: NAMA is. It is also sitting on empty properties.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is misleading people. He is correct that the mandate set by the Government for NAMA is to blame for this outrageous situation. Let us remember what is at stake here: thousands of families are homeless, almost 100,000 families are on housing waiting lists and 70% of working people are completely priced out of the housing market. The truth is the NAMA legislation first of all...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the weekend, Mr. Killian Woods in the Business Postrevealed that the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, was in possession of 54 units - let us call them what they are, namely, potential homes - in Prospect Hill, Finglas, 28 of which were vacant and 26 of which had been empty for a decade. That is an incredible fact for a publicly owned agency. This report confirmed and provided...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know how many times we have dealt with developers or consultations that happened at times when few people were likely to be aware that these consultations were happening. Such times can be very convenient for those who would rather that the public did not have a full view of things that may significantly impact on them and their environment. To exclude holiday periods, Christmas...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister of State comment on the radio advertisements?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I missed the first few minutes because I was in the Dáil. My concern, and that of a lot of people, is that we are pushing through legislation which is about facilitating development rather than starting with the proper mapping out of what should and should not happen, where it should happen and when it should happen in the marine environment, and having proper consultation around all of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support the amendment. I am repeating to a degree something I alluded to earlier. I was talking to fishermen in Dún Laoghaire yesterday. The perception is, to use the colloquial language of the fishermen, that "this Bill is going to screw us". That is essentially what they perceive. The Minister of State may say that is not the case but that is what they believe. They believe the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will add to the points that have already been made. My big concern is that the marine environment is an enormous area that some people stand to potentially make a lot of money out of. Let us call a spade a spade. There were some disastrous mistakes made on land with planning and development, where money had a disproportionate, sometimes corrupt, influence on planning and development on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021: Committee Stage (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To reiterate the point I made about radio, there is a specific reference to newspapers in section 5(b). Will the Minister of State seriously consider including a reference to radio in the legislation? Displaying advertisements in the newspaper only is just not good enough these days.