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Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are getting a right tour here.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 106: In page 122, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Report of Minister 58.The Minister shall, by 31 December 2022, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas reviewing the financial impact of the exit of Ulster Bank and KBC from the Irish market on Allied Irish Bank and Bank of Ireland, whether the levy on certain financial institutions...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: These amendments are well directed. The 10% being charged on some residential property, where it is over nine properties, is completely inadequate to deal with the phenomena of the big property investment vehicles coming in here and bulk buying property. No measure has been taken by the Government to prevent them bulk buying apartments. If the levy is imposed on some parts of the housing...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely. There was a policy choice or a decision made at that time which was to bring these entities in. At least the Government is remaining consistent because it still thinks they should be here. It is defending the decision to invite them in, it is defending the decision to keep them here, and it is suggesting they are going to contribute even now to resolving the housing crisis. I...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (9 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether the mandate of Coillte needs to be changed in view of the climate and biodiversity emergency and the critical role of afforestation in addressing both of these crises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60848/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (9 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the procedures and protocols in place between his Department and Coillte in relation to the sale of Coillte lands and forests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (9 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are programmes available in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60915/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the way a person (details supplied) can get a booster vaccine administered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61102/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ireland's provision of refuge places for women who have been victims of domestic violence is hopelessly inadequate. We signed the Istanbul Convention in 2015. Adherence to that convention means we should have 498 refuge places throughout the country. We only have 143. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown has no refuge places at all. A report produced this week suggested that, this year alone,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A sustainable economy as referred to in the strategy requires at the very least that the earnings of workers keep pace with inflation. With inflation running at approximately 5%, many people are limited to 1% pay increases and some are getting nothing. Workers are in effect taking a pay cut at present. I want to know what the Taoiseach will do about it. I will ask him very specifically...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know the answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The workers are asking me if they are ever going to get a pay increase on those miserable levels of wages.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was legally challenged.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister was supposed to sign off -----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He could have done so before. He was supposed to sign-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He was supposed to sign off in the summer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government needs to get clear information out to people whose incomes and employment are impacted as we head into Christmas. I do not know how many times in the past two years I have raised the issue of the plight of musicians and entertainers. They are in a dire state at the moment because the public health measures and restrictions and the voluntary decisions of many people to scale...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I get an answer about musicians?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (14 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the newly published response to Ireland’s Competitiveness Challenge 2021. [60208/21]