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Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why no criticism of NATO?

Ministerial Rota for Parliamentary Questions: Motion: Taoiseach's Communications (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is NATO not expanding eastwards when it is not static?

Violence against Women: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The murder of Ashling Murphy was an absolutely unspeakable and horrific act. I can only imagine the grief the family must be feeling. I pass on my deepest sympathies to her family, her friends and her community. Against that background of an utterly unspeakable senseless murder and tragedy, it has been very heartening to see the amazing response of people throughout the country, coming...

Leaving Certificate: Motion (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Ó Laoghaire and Sinn Féin for introducing this motion on the leaving certificate. People Before Profit is happy to support it. The very least we can insist upon in the particular situation of Covid-19 is that the voices of leaving certificate school students, as clearly expressed by them and their representative organisations, should be heard. They want a choice...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 67. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed or plans to review staffing levels in the local authorities in view of the changes to the strategic housing development and large-scale residential developments legislation; if he will sanction extra posts to ensure that staff increases needed in the planning sections of the local authorities will not pull...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Talk about being found out. Fianna Fáil is in combative mood tonight. Here is a Fianna Fáil hoax, that it got rid of strategic housing developments, SHDs, before Christmas. As we warned, there was a flood of SHD applications for build-to-rent developments by greedy developers trying to get in on the gold rush in our area as soon as that legislation went through. The Minster said...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the Minister of State said the Government had abolished SHDs, there have been seven new applications for SHDs just on the Dún Laoghaire side of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. That is because the Government essentially allowed an extension for these build-to-rent developer-led developments. Ironically, some of the Government's local representatives are now running around saying that...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It does not have the staff and the money being provided is going into general funds, not into creating new posts.

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: SHDs were a scandal. They did nothing to address the housing crisis. They delivered overpriced rents to make money for developers. Since the announcement that this process would go, though, we had seven applications in December. There is murder in Sallynoggin over a nine-story construction. It is a working-class area where there are only two-storey houses but this will be a nine-storey...

Ceisteanna Eile – Other Questions: Housing Policy (25 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government said that it was getting rid of SHDs.

Cost of Living: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Nash for tabling this motion on inflation and the cost of living. We are happy to support it. We will move two small but important amendments on the issue of introducing energy price caps and supporting workers who put in pay claims to keep their wages and income ahead of the galloping rate of inflation and rising cost of living. The inflation figures are bad enough if they...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On many issues this Government talks a good game but is not so good at delivering. Delivering new schools and the actual buildings for those schools is one spectacular failure in that regard. Under the online patronage process system, the Department of Education is due to deliver 47 schools between 2019 and 2022. I would like to know how many of them have actual sites and buildings....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. It relates to a promise that the Government would deliver these schools.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dún Laoghaire Educate Together National School has a site but no building. The proposed Sallynoggin-Killiney Educate Together national school has no site and no building. Gaelscoil Laighean is still waiting on a permanent site. The Red Door School, a special school, has been operating in prefabs for over a decade. Gaelscoil Phádraig has spent 20 years in prefabs waiting for a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Gaelscoil Phádraig has been waiting 20 years.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is called advance planning.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The mother and baby home regime was organised abuse of mothers and children by the church and State. They have been cruelly let down time and again by the State. The commission report was an absolute travesty, as I said from the start, in that it failed to take on board in a serious way, and give way to, the voices of the survivors. However, the leak was a disgrace. Government spin came...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Foreign Policy (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Global Ireland: Ireland's Global Footprint to 2025 puts much emphasis on our culture, arts and heritage but most of its initiatives are essentially about punting our reputation around the world. I am not saying there is anything wrong with them but we are not doing what we should be doing, which is to nurture and support those who produce the art, literature, music, film and so on. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Expenditure (26 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to see Government information flowing in respect of two areas with the sort of frequency and sophistication that we saw around Covid announcements. I note there is a Government of Ireland document entitled Be Winter Ready. We discussed at length the question of fuel energy price hikes. Notwithstanding the debate around all of that, there is a real danger of people on low...