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

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, absolutely.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind the Minister that this is a precedent, a point I put to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. There have been comments that people are skipping the queue. They are HAP tenants. They are on the list. Some are quite elderly. Some have children and are very vulnerable. They are well up the list. We have to remember that 13 empty apartments have been sitting there for two...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the recent sale of a studio (details supplied) to a large real estate corporation particularly given that the State had only recently disposed of its share of the studios and that the studios have received large amounts of public funding over many years; her further views on whether it is now time to take the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the dead of August, a time when shady deals are often done, Ardmore Studios was sold to an American capital investment firm called Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital, an American real estate firm. This is the former national film studios set up in 1958 with State assistance. It was the National Film Studios of Ireland in the 1970s and it has now been handed over to a real...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is quite an extraordinary response from the Minister. In the beginning it was referred to as "a studio". This studio was set up with the assistance of Seán Lemass in 1958. It then became the National Film Studios of Ireland in the 1970s. It was where "My Left Foot" and "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" were filmed. I could go through the list of classic films. This is part...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the EU says is countries are supposed to create with state aid to the film industry a permanent pool of skills and labour. Virtually nobody has a job in the Irish film industry. They go from film to film, as the producers keep saying. In cases before the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, at the moment, film producers have come in and said to people who worked on those film...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will transform their lives with a lot of cash. It will put big money in their pockets.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the criteria and timeline for the pilot scheme for arts and culture workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55224/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I refer to the basic income pilot scheme for workers in arts and culture sector. Will the Minister give assurances that all disciplines of arts, culture and music and the crew that support the artists and performers, will be eligible to apply for the pilot scheme?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate what the Minister said. I and, more importantly, people in the sector have campaigned for this for a long time because income and employment insecurity is rampant. While I welcome this measure, let us not sit back on our laurels and act as if this is a panacea. We should remember that the background to this, which I acknowledge predates the Minister's tenure, is that we see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said, I genuinely welcome this pilot. It is a step forward. It is a pity it took a pandemic for us to realise just how important culture and arts are to us and how life is so much diminished when those in the sector are not able to perform live and so on. I hope we have learned something from the pandemic in this regard. While I welcome the scheme, does the fact that it is for three...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister first became a Minister in the Fine Gael-Labour Party Government in 2011. This was the Government that in its programme said it would eradicate homelessness in five years. That Government made a decision in June 2011 to discontinue capital investment in social housing and to rely instead on the outsourcing of social housing to the private sector. Since 2011, average rents have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was not an accident, it was not an emergency, it was a policy. Let us just be honest about it. It was a policy. The reason so few houses were built in the year the Minister referred to was because a policy decision was made in 2011 to discontinue them. Meanwhile, we were selling properties, which we are now renting back at extraordinary cost. The target for HAP, RAS and leasing was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Harbours and Piers (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State should not be so modest.

Forestry Sector: Motion (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also want to mention the students of Coláiste Éinde in Galway, because they get it, in asking for the forest of the children, foraois na bpáistí, initiative of planting a native broadleaf tree for every child in the country. Monty Python came to mind for many reasons when I was thinking about this debate, partly, because we just keep going around in circles in a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For a start, I do not think that is good enough.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It would be helpful to have clarify on this point. The 12 nautical miles is State-owned, is what I am hearing. Who owns the parts that are in our maritime territory beyond the foreshore, or what was the foreshore? It will not be the foreshore any more, which is another point. There will not be a foreshore after the Foreshore Act goes and the 12 nautical mile zone, or 22 km zone, is gone....

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will have no legal standing after the Foreshore Act goes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Marine Planning Area Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who has ownership rights?