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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to respond to the Minister's claim that delivery could not be more public than it is. We need to put this in a concrete context. At the moment, in my area there is virtually no public housing being developed. The local authority build for this year for the Dún Laoghaire area is zero. All of a sudden and out of the blue, notice was given of allocations from the council list to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to respond to two of the Minister's points. The idea that the LDA is acting as some sort of supplement to the local authorities rather than supplanting them is, quite honestly, just nonsense. There is no better example than Shanganagh. There has been delay after delay for years and years. Central government has refused to just give the local authority the money to build on its own...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, Chairman, but------

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We cannot pass a Land Development Agency Bill that is littered with references to affordable housing by way of the Minister saying we will kick the issue of defining affordable housing down the road to another Bill. The credibility of the Land Development Agency Bill is entirely, or largely, dependent on what affordability means. If affordability turns out to be unaffordable, the Land...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is being pressed. I am not a member of the committee but if I am allowed to press it, I will do so.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support this amendment. It is particularly important because I fear that, as this Bill envisages, the involvement of private finance, commercial interests and so on, one will get the usual stuff occurring, which is the real answer as to why the affordable caps are different in different areas. It is because they are worried about the impact on the market. Those sorts of prejudices are...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister did not answer one important question. I want that question answered before I press the amendment. Why are the affordability caps set at different levels in different areas?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will but I am not letting this pass.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I move amendment No. 7: In page 8, line 14, after "for" to insert "public".

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have three amendments here, Nos. 10, 11 and 37. Amendment No. 10 seeks to delete references to "undue segregation" included in the Bill while No. 11 seeks to replace the term "social background" with "incomes". I also aim to replace references to counteracting undue segregation of persons to again emphasise incomes rather than social backgrounds, which is what the Bill does. Amendment...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will just finish this point because it is very important. The Government now envisages that certain people will be social housing tenants, certain people will have cost-rental accommodation, certain people will purchase affordable homes and certain people will be the sort of people who buy in the private market. In other words, there is to be a sort of caste system of housing which...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not happening.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Income and employment insecurity and, very often, downright poverty are the reality for many people who work in the arts sector in this country, a fact highlighted even more during Covid. My first question is whether the Government is going to do the pilot on basic income for people working in the arts. Second, we have recently had a good news story with the reports about the Disney...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 May 2021)

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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that addresses matters relating to the arts and culture will next meet. [26507/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (26 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach the status of the shared island unit of his Department. [26243/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (26 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we want to promote the merits of sharing the island, it is not just about initiatives from the top. It is about breaking down division and showing the value of unity and alignment from the bottom. I gave the Taoiseach a concrete example of this a few weeks ago. Taxi drivers affected by the Covid pandemic in the North have been given a financial package of up to £3,000 to deal with...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (26 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a family (details supplied) have been told they must wait up to two years for a coroner's inquest into the death of a family member; if measures will be taken to address any backlog in coroners' inquests due to the added pressure to the system caused by the pandemic and alleviate the suffering of this and other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Vaccination Programme (26 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners who have been vaccinated to date against Covid-19; the number vaccinated who are over 60 years of age; the number vaccinated who are medically vulnerable; the timescale for those who have not been vaccinated to receive a vaccine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28483/21]

Annexation of Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "settlement activity and to regularly update Dáil Éireann": - publicly declare that the State of Israel is guilty of war crimes for its killing of innocent men, women and, most horrifically, 63 children in the Gaza Strip over recent weeks; - acknowledge that: - the recent escalation of violence was provoked by the attempt...