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Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I learned a couple of things when I was in Palestine when I was about 18. First, I learned that Israel is an apartheid state and that we need to do something about it. While I was there, I was working in the desert growing tomatoes, melons and all sorts of other crops. An interesting point that has always stuck with me is that each morning when the farmers were producing the tomatoes for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department expects Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to make a decision on the planning permission for the school building at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16758/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (30 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider relocating a school (details supplied) to a location in Dún Laoghaire until its permanent home is ready; and the reason this was not considered as a temporary location originally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16760/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the housing aspect, we all agree that it is an absolute priority to address the housing crisis. What is the Central Bank's view about our ability to do that? Even pre-Ukraine, we were reaching the point where rents are completely unaffordable for most people, house prices are completely unaffordable, and the cost of construction has reached a point where the market at least is not really...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is one other thing. Dr. Cassidy quoted some statistics there on the distributional impacts of inflation on different deciles of the population or whatever. Was that a document? I was trying to find it on the bank's website.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay, but the officials will send it to us as well.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Stability Programme Update Scrutiny (Resumed): Central Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Chairman.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit is asking the Government to declare an emergency in the cost of living. The Government declared an emergency in relation to Covid-19 and brought in emergency measures. It has effectively declared an emergency in relation to Ukraine and brought in emergency measures. It is long past time that it accepts there is an emergency in the cost of living and introduces...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: First, energy costs went up 27% last year, before the Ukraine crisis. The Minister cannot hide behind the Ukraine crisis and use it as an excuse. He absolutely failed to address the fact that while ordinary householders, many of them pensioners and people on low incomes - ordinary working people - are crippled by these hikes in prices, all of the energy companies are seeing record profits....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Profiteering.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not get our energy from Russia.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Minister talking about?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Wind electricity prices are going up too.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is because the market said so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So pensioners should turn off their heating.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Health if he will now consider the compulsory purchase of the site at St. Vincent's hospital, or any other site, to ensure the new national maternity hospital is publicly owned and publicly run; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16849/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for dealing with the chronic overcrowding in hospitals, the ever-growing waiting lists and the crisis in non-Covid-19 care; if he considers that it is now time to take over the capacity in the private hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16848/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 203. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will allow taxi drivers that are about to retire to resale their taxi plates or introduce a buy-back scheme for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17172/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 221 of 23 March 2022, if he will state the actual number of Coillte road licences on the weekly dashboard in week 1 March 2022, which is not available on the layout of the dashboard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17394/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all our contributors. The main thing I am looking for is hope. I accept that the targets, figures and finances are important and that one has to go through all this detail to deliver social and affordable housing. I have been around a while now and note that nothing has changed about the human reality or the misery of people coming through my door week in, week out, owing to...