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- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As the mover of most of the amendments in this group, I will respond to the Minister. Many of the contributions probably were not directly to do with the amendments but that shows the frustration Members feel about housing in every area. Members are just looking for every opportunity to raise this issue because it is such a pressing crisis. I agree with the Minister that there is a...
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, lines 5 to 19, to delete line 5 down to and including "price" in line 19 and substitute the following: "An Act to regulate relevant public and relevant private land in order to increase the amount of land available for the provision of public and genuinely affordable housing; for that housing to address deficiencies in the stock of public and affordable...
- Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will let the Minister make the case for that one. I will speak to the amendments tabled by People Before Profit. They relate to the Title of the Bill and, essentially, the setting out of its purposes and the purpose of the Land Development Agency, LDA. In some ways, the amendments in this group are a summary of many of the problems we have with the Government's plan for the LDA and what...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are allocated a certain amount of time.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council. [34683/21]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As there was not enough time for the Taoiseach to answer my previous question, perhaps he will do so now because Britain is one of several European countries that regularly sells large amounts of arms to Saudi Arabia, which that country then uses to devastating and murderous effect in Yemen. We have a responsibility to say to all of our neighbours in Europe, whether inside or outside the EU,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, met with representatives of the Saudi Arabian regime recently. Can the Taoiseach tell us if the Cabinet subcommittee on Europe has discussed the issue of the absolutely terrible war in Yemen, which has lasted for almost seven years? Approximately 16 million people, half the population, are suffering from hunger, 3 million...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [34682/21]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Why will the Minister and the Government not commit to actually making affordable housing genuinely affordable on public land and on developments where we are getting affordable housing from private developers?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Consider areas of Dublin such as the Glass Bottle site at Poolbeg where developers like Johnny Ronan and so on are involved. These developers are not building anything for less than €500,000 and often more. That is not affordable. The concern is that the Government will not strictly define "affordable" to ensure that it is actually affordable based on people's income. To pay for a...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but base it on people's income, so that ordinary working people-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: An amendment we put to the Sinn Féin motion last night said that it should be no more than 25% of a person's income-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the Government did not oppose it. Will they hardwire that into the legislation to give a clear, legal commitment for genuine affordability?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Johnny Ronan-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My question is on another matter, but I have to say that the entire country is flying blind and the Taoiseach should restore those briefings as a matter of urgency if he wants to take people with him in what is a difficult situation. If the recent opinion poll taken in respect of the by-election in Dublin Bay South is anything to judge by, there is a very real possibility, maybe even a...
- Industrial Relations (Provisions in Respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government would do well to heed the warnings that were given by retired workers and pensioners outside the gates of Leinster House yesterday. It will press its amendment at its peril. I ask the Government, even at this point, not to move the amendment, which will delay the passing of the Bill. It was most eloquently put by one retired worker who said, "We may no longer be worker bees,...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 207. To ask the Minister for Health when a parent can travel to see their child who lives in the UK without needing to use up annual leave to quarantine for two weeks on their return or to have a need to pay for expensive PCR tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26800/21]
- Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No.1: To insert the following after “until a satisfactory plan for the delivery of affordable homes is secured”: “— affordable shall be defined as a price that ensures the tenant or owner is not paying more than 25 per cent of their earnings on either mortgage or rent; and — where the NAMA lands are transferred to DCC, the homes on this...
- Affordable Homes in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone: Motion (29 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Ó Broin for bringing forward this important motion relating to Poolbeg and the Irish Glass Bottle site. I am also glad that the Government has decided not to oppose the motion. I pay tribute to the Irish Glass Bottle Housing Action Group. I was an invited speaker at its launch meeting many years ago. I cannot remember how many years ago and that, in itself, tells a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Central Statistics Office (29 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is welcome that the census is rescheduled but I must ask whether the Government plays a blind bit of notice to the critical data it gathers, which allows us to plan, particularly in the area of school provision. Judging from my constituency, the Department of Education and the Government does not use the data. I could name some of the patron school bodies and recite the numbers they...