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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks to Russia and America; they wrecked the place.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They stopped taking applications.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And to protect the workers’ conditions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Larry Goodman.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Definitely not Larry Goodman.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is thanks to Russia and America. They wrecked the place.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [47963/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised the plight of taxi drivers with the Taoiseach many times. They were hit very hard during the pandemic. Taxi drivers also have a key role to play in the decarbonisation of transport. Some €15 million was allocated after some big protests by taxi drivers during the period of Covid for grants to be available to them to get electric cars. To their disappointment and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not scrap the SHD now?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has extended it.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a two-month waiting list.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met and will next meet. [47962/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The strategic housing development planning process, which allows developers and property speculators to get around the normal planning process and increase the value of sites that they purchase, has been thoroughly discredited. It was supposedly brought in to accelerate the delivery of the housing that we need to address the housing crisis but, as we know, only one third of strategic housing...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met and will next meet. [47961/21]

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]