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Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Business Committee for this debate, which has once again highlighted the sickening injustice of the way the Government manipulates the speaking arrangements. The people who asked for this debate get six and a half minutes after the contributions of five or six Government speakers and the Minister, who does not want to hang around to hear from the rest of the parties. This party...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just arbitrary.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise an urgent matter. This Friday, several hundred patients will lose their GP in the Monkstown Farm area of Dún Laoghaire because there is a rule, of which I was previously unaware, that GPs are compulsorily retired when they reach the age of 72, even if that retirement is against their will, as it is in this case. They wish to continue serving their patients but are no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apparently, at least six exceptions to this rule have been made around the country, as I found out from the reply to a parliamentary question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach intervene to ensure that hundreds of people do not lose their GP because of this ridiculous and arbitrary rule?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [45087/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [43761/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The people of Berlin have shown the sort of imagination that both the German Government and successive Irish governments distinctly lack when it comes to dealing with the housing crisis. Fed up with and sick of the lack of tenants' rights and completely extortionate rents, the people of Berlin, driven by a campaign from below, have made exactly the right call, which is to expropriate the big...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the extent that the state should actually take control. Why do we not follow the lead-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the people in Berlin have given in a referendum?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [43762/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will return to the question I asked the Taoiseach earlier about Clonkeen College and the plan of the Edmund Rice Schools Trust and the Christian Brothers to sell off its playing pitches. He agreed with me that this is wrong and that it will deprive the school, the ASD unit, local community sports organisations and others who use these fields but he said that there was nothing he can do. I...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: During the previous Dáil, I raised the plight of Clonkeen College in Dún Laoghaire on multiple occasions. It is a non-fee paying, publicly funded school run by the Christian Brothers, who have decided to sell off the school playing fields to a private property developer. Since the previous Government would not listen, I ask the current Government to intervene to stop the sale of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do something about it then.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where there is a will there is a way.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 133. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider effective rent controls that will both reduce rents and maintain them at an affordable level in view of the failure of the rent pressure zones to make rents affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46414/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to make the long-promised changes to the income levels for eligibility for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46469/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 399. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the affordable housing in the area of Cherrywood, Dublin as a result of the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF, funding; the number of units, the size of units and whether they will be affordable purchase or affordable rental; the cost or rent in each case; when they are scheduled for delivery;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 400. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all Part Vs delivered over the past five years, by local authority including the cost to the local authority or approved housing body; if these units are being leased or bought; if they are being leased or bought by an approved housing body or local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 401. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the retrofitting programme for local authority housing by number of units to be retrofitted each year to 2030; the cost for each unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46834/21]