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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...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As well as the potentially disastrous consequences for CO2 emissions and water usage of constructing further data centres, it is important that ordinary people who may not know much about what data centres are and what value they give, which is little in terms of employment. As Deputy Murphy explained, much of what they do is highly questionable in respect of their contribution to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with children and youth affairs will next meet. [45088/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality met last; and when it is next due to meet. [45089/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise an urgent, disturbing and upsetting case which has wider ramifications for the State's responsibility to vulnerable children. A mother of a 17-year-old boy in my constituency - I will not mention names, obviously, because it is a sensitive matter - has asked me to raise this issue with the Taoiseach and anyone who will listen. The boy is on the very severe end of the autism...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [46799/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will continue to speak about the case I raised of the 17-year-old child with autism who is wandering the streets and reliant on homeless accommodation. As the Taoiseach rightly said, the agencies that are the first ports of call should work. In this case, we are talking about Túsla, which has constitutional responsibilities. We had a referendum in 2012 about the specific...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We fought to get him a placement but it fell through.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [46800/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government seems to be getting itself into a mess over the issue of recognising the huge role workers played in sustaining our society during the Covid pandemic. I will give a few suggestions in that regard. First, health workers who were on the front line in hospitals fighting to keep the disease at bay and getting infected are a particular category whose work must be recognised, along...

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]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will put in place measures that would see colleges refund students who are being forced to take lectures online given that vaccination rates amongst persons over 18 years of age are high; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46618/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 39. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [43763/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (29 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the method of calculating contributary pensions will change in 2022; if retirees who would achieve a better pension payment under the current averaging system will be allowed to continue having that criteria and method used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47011/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Contrary to what I believe the Tánaiste stated, data centres are contributing to the global surge in demand for energy and, consequently, the price hikes. Setting that issue aside, what is undoubtedly the case is that energy prices for ordinary people are going through the roof. Many have seen two, three or four energy price hikes this year alone. The Tánaiste stated that the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2022 Scrutiny (Resumed): Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (30 Sep 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the reward for essential and front-line workers and for people generally who sacrificed during Covid, I very much welcome this conversation. It has become controversial. It may be somewhat difficult for the Minister but it is very good that we are having a difficult and controversial conversation. Many people went unacknowledged and unrecognised for a long time as to the importance of...