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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They asked for the money.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They asked the Department.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The service is gone now. It is unbelievable.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have not got the money - the €250,000. That is it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know how many schemes there are where it has been suggested that somebody needs to co-ordinate between Departments on the issue of disability. It has also been suggested that the Department of the Taoiseach should take a lead role on this. We should bear in mind that we signed up to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. I find the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach to do something about this.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thirty seconds for my question.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked the Departments responsible for health and disability. They refused.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I think they got some money, but not-----
- Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: To insert the following after "not made during the period of the crisis": "— examine the measures needed to develop a wholly publicly owned and not-for-profit energy system, including the nationalisation of all existing energy generation in the State in order to fully address both the current energy crisis and the climate crisis" I thank Sinn Féin...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister appears to have indicated that the Government has not fully made its decisions on an additional package that may be made available to address the cost-of-living crisis we are facing. I will make a suggestion to him for when he is considering what the Government is going to do. To my mind, and the minds of a considerable number of people, it is worrying when he constantly...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear about what I said, the point I made was that purchasing houses would be a one-off measure that would save us money. We are paying out a €1 billion in RAS and HAP payments, increasingly to these international investment funds. Would it not be better if we just bought the stuff instead of the funds buying it? We could then deliver public and affordable housing. For every...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Energy prices were going up before the war, as the Minister knows well.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course, it made matters worse.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Energy is also being weaponised by private companies.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It has also been weaponised by private companies.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance the rationale for the taxation of social welfare maternity benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44529/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The cost-of-living crisis has dominated discussions in the Dáil, and rightly so, because so many people are fearful of what they face in the winter. It is the reason so many people will come out on the streets for the cost of living coalition's demonstration on Saturday, 24 September. The other connected crisis that will also prompt people to join the demonstration is an ever-worsening...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not, actually.
- An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. How do the Irish rich get rich? The answer is property. To a substantial extent, it is through property and property development. What has been one of the major sources of corruption and corruption scandals in this country in recent years? The answer again is property and property development. This is what is at stake when we are talking about...