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Ceisteanna - Questions: Central Statistics Office (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any engagements with the Central Statistics Office with regard to the rescheduling of Census 2021. [34841/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Regarding the announcement on indoor dining, the idea that only people who are vaccinated will be allowed to avail of indoor dining and hospitality, but we will have young workers who are not vaccinated serving them, is absolutely nonsensical. The Government needs to address that issue. Under no circumstances should workers who are not vaccinated be told they must work in an environment we...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and what we can do to ramp up the vaccination programme for them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree that the debate on the Covid-19 vaccination programme should happen when it was scheduled to take place, particularly in view of the important announcements that have been made. I also object in the strongest possible terms to the guillotine being imposed on Report Stage of the Land Development Agency Bill 2021. This legislation deals with the entire public land bank and, in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department and the Higher Education Authority will assist and support Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology as the last remaining institute of technology to join the Technological University through a section 38 of the Technological Universities Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a line item list of expenditure for funds awarded to Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology by the Higher Education Authority for exploring technological university designation; if this funding is to seek technological university designation under the Technological Universities Act 2018; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 419. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 475 of 5 May 2021, when the information requested will be provided by An Garda Síochána. [34551/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 490. To ask the Minister for Health the status of workers who have been transferred without their knowledge from a section 39 status organisation to a section 56 status which has had consequences for those workers earnings and conditions; when and the way in which this change was made; if it is intended to ensure sufficient funding and resources are available for Tusla and section 56 workers...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (29 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 544. To ask the Minister for Health the next date for a meeting (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27464/21]

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister had 20 minutes and there are five Fine Gael speakers.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the costs.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the costs.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It means that a person will be paying higher rent even though his or her income is the same as other people. That is not fair. I mention the fact that the Minister or previous Governments have not raised the income thresholds. I laughed at the Minister's response to a Topical Issue matter tabled by Deputy Ó Laoghaire the other day, in which the Minister announced the income threshold...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. Let us hope it is gone but it appears again here.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough. My office told me there was no change.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It might have. We need a mole in the Minister's Department.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We absolutely need a mole in the Minister's Department. The phrase "undue segregation" appears here again, as if there is a due or acceptable level of segregation. There is not. Why does it appear? I will tell the Minister why it appears. It is because thede factopragmatic solution is actually about new forms of segregation, and new forms of classification of cohorts of people, who will...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not be opposing the Bill, at least at this Stage, because we want to see affordable housing as a matter of urgency. We will undoubtedly introduce amendments on the next Stage and will try to be constructive. We supported the Residential Tenancies Bill even though it was incredibly limited and did not go half far enough. We did not block that legislation. We sought to amend it but...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was it?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further measures he will take to address unaffordable rents, excessive rent increases and unfair evictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33884/21]