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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want the Taoiseach to tell them to stop people being made homeless.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Send a memo to them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It contains the word “may”.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Liz Truss and the Tory right have faced a humiliating defeat over their attempts to cut taxes on the rich to the levels that we have in this country, as Deputy Paul Murphy pointed out. In better news, though, in another part of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament has introduced a rent freeze and an eviction ban in response to the cost-of-living crisis. The Tories in Scotland are...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not read ours obviously.

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a member of the Business Committee, I was the one who asked for this debate to take place. I have been asking for it since several weeks before the summer recess. It was refused before the summer, it was refused until now and, finally, the Minister has deigned to allow a debate but has left before the vast majority of the Opposition spokespeople on housing even have a chance to respond...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is insanity, yet the Government continues to allow it to persist, resulting in people entering into homelessness. Regarding income thresholds, I will return to the example of the woman in Nenagh. She earns too much to get social housing support, so she is living in a tent with her kids. For a year, I have been raising the case of a woman who has been in homeless accommodation with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister of State may know, I also put in, before the summer, a whole series of detailed questions on this area of the OPW’s property portfolio. Since we returned to the House, frankly, I think we need to take a serious look at the management of that portfolio. Another thing to add to this debate is that in one of the answers the Minister of State gave me before the summer...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Office of Public Works (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not sell Dublin Garda stations-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that he intends to solve the recruitment crisis across the public sector in Dublin given the lack of availability of affordable rents and the high cost of housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48394/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that he intends to solve the recruitment crisis across the public sector, particularly in the major urban centres given the lack of availability of affordable rents or house prices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48310/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sure, or I hope, the Minister is aware that we have a major crisis in being able to recruit and retain teachers, nurses, other allied health professionals and people in the mental health area and many other key areas, such as construction and so on. At the back of all of this, as the reports coming out make clear if it was not already clear, is the lack of affordable housing for people,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are a hell of a lot more than challenges. There is one nurse to 14 patients on wards in St. Vincent's hospital. We have major shortages of staff across the healthcare system, including mental health services, and among special needs assistants, SNAs. Teachers are leaving Dublin - we have seen the reports - because they cannot afford to live here. Reeling off statistics about public...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They may be facts but they do not explain why we have major staff shortages across our health service and, therefore, long waiting lists and a crisis in our emergency departments, and classes being cancelled because teachers have nowhere to live. What are we going to do about this? I have a proposal. The Minister stated that we should not spend the windfall tax receipts on ongoing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Sector Staff (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do. I invite the Minister to drive with me along the N11 towards Cherrywood and down to Shankill. At the end of the road, he will find the LDA's first site, but there will not be houses there for another two years. Before we get there, he will see many large apartment developments that are nearing completion or have just been completed. Who will own them and who will live in them?...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact the Croke Park agreement hours are no longer in place; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that for many employees in the public sector, the overtime entitlement is based on the rules in place prior to these hours ending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration he gave to expanding capital investment in areas such as housing, climate and energy savings prior to budget 2023 in order to reduce the need for large current expenditures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when legislative change will be made to give the Workplace Relations Commission jurisdiction to hear complaints in relation to the working time at sea directive, as promised by his Department in January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48106/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that will be in place in future Government electricity credits to ensure persons who are on subsidiary meters, yet are paying bills on a full property, will be able to avail of the full grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of apartments and studios in larger buildings that are on subsidiary meters to the main electricity account and therefore not entitled to the full electricity credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47897/22]