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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----intervene to get this site refurbished in the interests of the people and our heritage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While that is the formal position, given that she is responsible for the protection of our heritage, the Minister should see this as a priority. What the community is saying is that the mediation with this developer, Mr. Keane, should end. This person has no interest. From looking at the record and the neglect of this beautiful site, and the resulting dereliction and vacancy, it is evident...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Policy (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the basic income pilot scheme for arts and culture workers is limited to 2,000 persons rather than including all arts, entertainment and music workers; if she will reconsider this number; the way she plans to choose the participants in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2525/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government committed to providing greater security for our tenants in the private rented sector. Those commitments are proving hollow for a group of tenants whose position I have raised on multiple occasions and who are now reaching the crunch point in a multi-unit apartment complex, St. Helen's Court, Dún Laoghaire, where a vulture fund, for no other reason than to...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am glad that finally we have a Bill before us on birth information and tracing, the stated objective of which is to end the shameful situation where, for decades and decades, people were adopted and their mothers were, in effect, forced to give up their children even if sometimes it was technically consensual. In reality, the stigma that was imposed by church and State on women who had...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a learner driver permit application by a person (details supplied) is taking several months to process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63425/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 483. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who is in full-time education with an allowance from a relative of €160 per week but has a housing need is entitled to housing assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63424/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options available in the immediate term for persons living in homeless accommodation whose income goes slightly above the income limit for social housing; which is currently resulting in these homeless persons being asked to leave their homeless accommodation but they have no capability on their low incomes to provide a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of strategic housing development applications awaiting a decision by An Bord Pleanála by local authority; the number of strategic housing development applications that have already received a pre-planning opinion from An Bord Pleanála by the deadline of 17 December 2021, by local authority; the number...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of strategic housing development applications in the lifetime of the legislation by local authority; the number of these applications that were refused, granted permission and withdrawn, respectively by local authority; the number that were the subject of a judicial review by local authority; the number of these...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 673. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of correspondence he has had with his Chinese or European counterparts with regard to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2337/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he plans to take in relation to the recommendation from the Independent Body Examining Additional Working Hours that public service hours should be returned to pre-Haddington Road Agreement levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2456/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether public sector pay increases of 1% to 2% will be wiped out and public servants will essentially be taking a pay cut in 2022 with inflation running at 5.3%; the actions he plans to take in relation to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2457/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the request by a committee (details supplied) to meet with her and her officials to discuss the Covid-19 supports they need given the impact of public health measures on their ability to earn income over recent months; if she will respond positively to the request for a meeting; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with the Minister for Social Protection and the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment in relation to ensuring and maintaining income and grant supports for musicians and performers; if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties and lack of supports being encountered by grassroots...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the backlog in driving test waiting lists will be cleared. [2704/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I ask them not to take my comments personally. I know they are mandated in a particular way. I am one of the people who voted against the LDA to whom Deputy McAuliffe referred. I am very concerned about the announcement today and about particular elements of Mr. O'Rourke's opening statement in that he referred repeatedly to cost rental and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on from Deputy Gould's question and my own earlier question, I am worried about the levels of rent in cost rental. The statement Mr. O’Rourke made about 75% being what the LDA will deliver as cost rental concerns me, as I said. This is land that, if it was developed under the old model, would be 100% income-based rent, based on the differential rental scheme. This is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry to tell Mr. O’Rourke the average house price is €590,000. It is shocking. I know he is from the area. As a supplementary question, I understand the agency is bound by its mandate but Mr. O’Rourke’s answer is very revealing and, frankly, alarming. I do not blame him for that but it really is alarming. We have the biggest and only large development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is my point.