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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety (28 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to develop a compensation package for homeowners affected by fire remediation issues as a result of the failure of builders and developers to put in adequate fire safety measure which require remediation at the cost of the homeowners given that the Government has agreed to compensate homeowners affected by mica...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the proposed move to a temporary site for a school (details supplied) while the permanent building is under construction; if there is an issue with the move; if so, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33623/22]

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: First Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels by limiting them to a maximum of a quarter of monthly household incomes and to establish a National Rent Authority for this purpose. The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Residential Tenancies Act 2004 to reduce rents to affordable levels...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: First Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Supply Board (29 Jun 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way a family (details supplied) that is waiting for an ESB connection in order to be able to move back into their home can have this procedure expedited on health grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34705/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is completely unacceptable that the Dáil would consider going on recess in two weeks' time when inflation is running at 10%. That means that ordinary households, workers and pensioners, have each lost around €3,500 in income. That is the reality. Yet, the Government expects them to wait until mid-September for action to be taken. For three or four weeks now, I have asked...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning I joined Irish Wheelchair Association workers on the picket line in Clontarf. I was shocked at what they told me. They told me that they worked during the height of the Covid pandemic doing things like collecting swabs from nursing homes and getting Covid because they were working with patients at very close quarters. They are not getting the €1,000 bonus, which is an...

Defence Forces: Motions (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are using a faked concern for the well-being and welfare of our soldiers and our Defence Forces in order to abandon neutrality because they want to join the big boys club of the European militarisation project and get closer to NATO. PESCO is indistinguishably and inextricably connected to NATO in their interoperability. Let us be honest: Fianna Fáil and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are too many aspects to count in this Government's failure to deal with the cost-of-living crisis. Possibly, the worst of them all is the really catastrophic failure of the Government to deal with the housing crisis that is gripping this country. It is a housing "disaster", as Fr. Peter McVerry rightly put it. That failure means that we now have more than 10,300 families, including...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government finally bring in some rent controls to control rents so they are affordable? Will the Government start to deliver the social and affordable housing that means people who are working and struggling can afford a secure and affordable roof over their head?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why has the Government not announced the details of the review on the income eligibility thresholds for social housing and social housing support, despite a promise that this would be done before the summer recess? I will tell the House why. It is because the Government is terrified of what it will show about social housing need in this country and the cost to the State. The LDA has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will never be able to save and they will never be able to aspire to owning their own home. The Government has failed them completely and it will not even give these people eligibility for social housing support. It is obscene.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Which has not delivered one house in four years - not one.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first house, six years later.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much will the affordable homes cost in Shanganagh?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Buy the properties.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us have the debate before the summer recess.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Because of the Government’s failure to address the cost-of-living crisis, the Cost of Living Coalition will hold another protest outside Leinster House next Wednesday before the summer recess and a further protest before the budget on 24 September. If there were not already enough good reasons for those protests, the exceptional needs payment, which the Government has been trumpeting...

European Parliament and Council Directive on Protecting Persons who engage in Public Participation: Motion (6 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Watson Killiney Residents Association in my area had a SLAPP taken against it because it sought a judicial review against a decision by An Bord Pleanála to grant permission for a strategic housing development by Atlas GP Ltd., a developer owned by Pat Crean of Marlet Property Group. This information is in the public domain and has been widely reported. That case has been taken...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (5 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 389. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a contributory or non-contributory pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35460/22]