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Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Without a shadow of a doubt, the most high-profile redundancy that took place during the Covid-19 period, to which this Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill is a response, was the Debenhams redundancy. Why does this Bill not involve trying to do something to compensate the Debenhams workers for the failure and inadequacy of legislation to protect against the sort of strategic liquidation...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am because it is a redundancy payments Bill. It relates to Covid redundancies. The Debenhams redundancy was a Covid redundancy, where people lost their jobs in the middle of the emergency. The workers lost everything. They did not get any of their entitlements. I am asking whether this Bill addresses that. That is the question. Does the Bill address it? If not, why not? I think the...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael is claiming the credit for that. Apologies. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil - it does not make much difference in truth. It is the same to us. The idea was to have a State company, rather than leaving it to the private market to produce energy. A publicly owned company was created which operated on a not-for-profit basis. That is what needs to be done. We also need to extend...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. People are facing additional costs to heat their homes. The estimates vary but €800 over the year is a reasonable estimate by bonkers.ie. Against that background, €100 is pathetic and insulting. It is a drop in the ocean and will not cut it. It is good the Government seems to be acknowledging that more needs to be done, as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have never sanctioned Israel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That approach has not worked so far.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Working people and the least well-off in our country are being absolutely crucified by the rising cost of living. The cost of energy is going up and there are unaffordable rents and real pay cuts for people, with inflation running way ahead of the pay increases received. People Before Profit has been very clear. We think that there should be controls on the cost of energy and on rents and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Energia saw its profits go up by 46% last year.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not ask those companies to pay for the cost-of-living crisis by giving workers a decent pay increase and by controlling the cost of living?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not working.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [6398/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The average cost of retrofitting a house is approximately €53,000. It can be €70,000 or €80,000 for older houses to get them up to the highest building energy rating, BER. If someone is wealthy, the mooted changes in grants will benefit him or her. They might allow someone to cover the difference between €25,000 and €53,000 or more. However, the hardest...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the profits of the energy companies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment last met; and when it will next meet. [6399/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Economic recovery means very little if you cannot put an affordable roof over your head. In my area, average rents are now €2,200 a month and average house prices are in excess of €600,000. If you are on HAP, you are goosed, because the most they will give you is €1,900. So, what are you supposed to do? I would like to know what the Taoiseach thinks I should say to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a Fianna Fáil-run council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a Fianna Fáil-run council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil runs that one with the Green Party.