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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am trying to get a straight answer from the Taoiseach and I would appreciate one. The Government would have had to vote on the Solidarity-People Before Profit eviction ban Bill next week but now it has announced that it will bring in an eviction ban. The situation is still not clear, however, and I ask the Taoiseach to please clarify it. I have been contacted by families for whom this is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: So those who get notices to quit beforehand will not be covered. Can the Taoiseach just clarify this, for God's sake?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will not give a straight answer. It is unbelievable.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the people who have notices to quit be covered - "Yes" or "No"? It is a simple question. The answer is "No".

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Jesus Christ.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just looking for an answer.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [48746/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [49963/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am still trying to get an answer out of the Taoiseach on question relating to the eviction ban. I do not understand why he will not give a straight answer. Will he please tell me if people who have current notices to quit, prior to the legislation he is promising being brought in, will be protected from eviction over the winter?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Just so it is clear.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach clarify whether it is now policy, one that we have been asking for for two years, that the Government will purchase homes where families are threatened with being evicted into homelessness? The Government should go further and proactively purchase developer projects where new houses are coming on stream so that we can get more than 10% for social and affordable housing as...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Were the tenants in situ?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were calling for it for a long time and the Government ignored it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not happening in my area.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue unit of his Department. [50102/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the question of people who are paying multiple tariffs on gas and energy and are on district heating systems compared with those who are being massively ripped off on conventional contracts with energy companies, what will the Government do? For example, I met tenants from the new and much-trumpeted cost rental development on Enniskerry Road. They were delighted to get cost rental...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he recognises the need to remove all fees for and financial barriers to further and higher education given the shortage of graduates and postgraduates across multiple sectors of Ireland’s economy and public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51823/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just come from UCD, where the first person I met was a lecturer who said how worried she is about the college's ability to retain and recruit PhD students because of the financial pressures they are under. I was at Trinity College for the student walkout organised by the Union of Students in Ireland the other day. I met undergraduates who were furious that effectively nothing has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Government did was a drop in the ocean. It is telling that we had some of the biggest student protests for a long time after the budget. They were not happy. I am relaying what those students expressed to me. Some PhD students get no stipends. Some get miserable stipends of a few grand. Even those who get €18,000 have to work all the hours that God sends. They find it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still think the Minister is missing the reason they are protesting and why they are so angry. People who are on poverty stipends, who have no stipends, educational psychologists who have no funding and clinical psychologists who have a little funding are on such low incomes that they have been doubly hammered in real terms by the cost of living and the housing crisis. It is becoming...