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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government makes many commitments regarding dealing with the homelessness crisis and the provision of affordable housing. I have raised two instances of people in homeless emergency accommodation who have secured employment, which has put them over the relevant income thresholds, and who have then been threatened with being, or actually have been, put out of emergency...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach instruct them on that?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that families of persons with dementia have been informed that day services provided at a facility (details supplied) are due to be cut from three days to two days per week; the reason this is the case, rather than increase the number of persons permitted to attend three days per week to the pre-pandemic level of...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think the problem is the Tánaiste does not really seem to understand that the cost of living crisis that we are facing is, in fact, an emergency. Just like we had a housing emergency, which he finally and reluctantly had to accept existed, he needs to accept this is an emergency. Working people, pensioners and the least well-off are being absolutely crucified by the stratospheric...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to controlling and cutting the rents being charged by landlords, and to controlling and cutting the price of energy using the powers available to the Government?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a rare win.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The minimum wage in this country gives people just over €400 a week. Does the Tánaiste honestly believe that is adequate to meet the cost of living? That is a joke. Maybe he is going to surprise me and say the minimum wage is going to be increased to €12.90, the living wage, or, even better, the rate we are proposing - €15, but I know he is not going to say that...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: And the ESB and Energia.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: How come the ESB is making such large profits?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach honestly say to workers, pensioners and people on low and average incomes, with a straight face, that the paltry set of measures he announced last Thursday to deal with the catastrophic rise in the cost of living is adequate? Can he seriously suggest that is the case? Average heating and energy costs are due to go up by about €800 a year. The Government is giving...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ----energy companies and corporations are making an absolute fortune at the same time that workers are being hammered as a result of the cost of living.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the corporations.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It certainly will not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems that the bank of the last resort is always the workers’ pocket. That is the truth. What the Taoiseach is really saying is that the workers can take it in the neck. The elephant in the room in the context of his argument is the incredible increase in the wealth and profits of the richest in our society----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: ----while workers are having their pockets looted as a result of increased energy prices and rents that are utterly stratospheric and totally unaffordable. The Taoiseach did not answer my question about how workers are supposed to pay for these things. He also did not mention the fact that profits in the last decade have gone up by 172%. He did not mention that we now have nine...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the reality.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are for getting rid of the USC.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Who pays the other €600?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is working so well.