Results 20,401-20,420 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent discussions with the British Prime Minister. [54393/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would not be jumping over myself to have a personal or political relationship with Boris Johnson to be honest and I am certainly no fan of his but did the Taoiseach discuss with him the differing strategies on dealing with the Covid pandemic? The one thing that I will give him a little credit for, and on which I think that the Taoiseach should take a leaf from his book, is that in the UK,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, then let us make them free as they are doing in the UK. I am not saying that Boris Johnson has been top of the class in dealing with the pandemic but this is a measure which many scientists and public health people are saying could be part of dealing with Covid. The UK policy of giving them out free to people when they need them, and as many as they need, is a good policy that we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach can throw his response into his answer on this next question. We need antigen tests on public transport.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [54394/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I add my voice to the call made by Deputy Cian O'Callaghan on access for all. I commend the Access for All campaign for highlighting the constant problem at DART stations. We have many of them in our area. A key aspect of that is the lack of staff in DART stations to actually assist people when there are difficulties with lifts and to report these difficulties and so on. I also wish to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that deals with agriculture; and when it is next due to meet. [54562/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the past ten days or so, I raised with the Taoiseach the issue of the attempt by Coillte, the State forestry company, to sell off Killegar forest in Enniskerry. Despite-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have done well. I am glad to say I got a call from Coillte yesterday informing me it had decided to abandon the sale. Coillte tried to suggest that the sale was not finalised. I will inform the House that there were for sale signs all around the forest when I went there. Killegar forest was being advertised on an estate agent's website so Coillte had planned to sell it. Intervention...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should look at Coillte's mandate in that regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Against what?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am against carbon tax-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on people. Put it on the corporations.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the data centres.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the data centres.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought the Taoiseach said I must have done a good leaving certificate.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure that the remaining tenants in a location (details supplied) who are all in receipt of social housing support are not made homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55036/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle very much and I appreciate this. I raise the issue of the residents of St. Helen’s Court in Dún Laoghaire, which is a multi-unit apartment complex directly across from my office, which was bought out by vulture funds a number of years ago. The first vulture fund made two attempts to mass evict on the grounds of sale, refurbishment or various...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that the Minister has engaged and that efforts have been made. Here is the irony. This vulture fund went into the RTB and the tenants said they thought that the claim the fund was going to sell was a ruse because the fund owns 20 apartments and said that it was only going to sell the ones where there were tenants, and the ones that were sitting empty, where the fund had managed...