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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fair trade.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where are they going to go?

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The senior Ministers who delivered the budget have scuttled off. We did them the courtesy of listening to their diatribe of propaganda to justify their budget, but they could not do us the courtesy of listening to our response. That says everything about this Government because it does not listen. The people will not be fooled by this budget. Despite all the leaked strategy, all the spin...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed. It is totally inappropriate that a Financial Resolution on the Maritime Area Planning Bill is being taken this evening. It is nothing to do with the budget. It is to do with the Maritime Area Planning Bill, which is a very controversial Bill. It should not have been taken today; it should be taken tomorrow. That would be the best time to do it. The Bill will go to...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will I trust the Government?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will let it pass this time.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Smoking is bad for you and it would be best that people did not smoke and that we did things to discourage them from smoking but punishing people financially for an addiction is not the way forward and is overwhelmingly a regressive form of taxation in that it disproportionately hits the less well-off. I also strongly doubt the Government will, certainly through this mechanism, get to a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address student poverty particularly poverty arising from extortionate costs of accommodation and the burden of fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49872/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Owen Keegan showed utter contempt for students and the crisis they face with accommodation costs. I put it to the Minister that the Government has not been far off in its contempt due to its failure to address the student poverty crisis and the cost of student accommodation. There are no measures whatsoever in the budget to deal with the extortionate cost of accommodation and the student...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The student grants have not gone up for nearly a decade so the small patch-up we saw in the budget yesterday does not go anywhere near dealing with the cost of living and, in particular, the accommodation cost hikes we have seen. In three months alone this summer in Dublin there was a 5.6% rise in rents. That was on top of an almost 5% increase the year before. Average rents in Dublin are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government gave €63 million to KBC Bank Ireland and Ulster Bank yesterday as a goodbye present as they exit the Irish market, so I ask the Minister not to tell me about the €60 million, which is less than that, which the Government gave to students. Students will be outside Dublin City Council today and I will be speaking to them, as will other Members. You need only talk...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning, the Tánaiste said that most people in this country will be better off after yesterday's budget and the Taoiseach has more or less reiterated that myth. It is critical to puncture that myth and get across the truth about what happened in yesterday's budget. Using even the most elementary arithmetic, looking at the details of budget will show that is not true. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a different view about how to deal with rents than some of the other Opposition parties. We believe we should control rents, as is done in other countries, and set rents at affordable levels based on people's income and the size of the property, not refunds or things that will inflate the market, but actual rent controls. I go back to the example of Mairéad. Based on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are but it must be genuinely affordable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We opposed the selling of public lands.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was lots of supply during the Celtic tiger.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Unaffordable supply is not useful to Roan and Nicole.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should have a referendum on it.

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will repeat a point that Deputy Barry made and I also made earlier. It is amazing there is not more scrutiny of the simple fact the Minister told us yesterday that inflation is running at 3.7% and yet, as I highlighted earlier, somebody who is on the average industrial wage of €40,000 a year is getting, as a result of the tax changes the Government has brought in, less than 0.5% in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has plans to extend the help to buy scheme to include second-hand homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49446/21]