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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will send the Taoiseach the material.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, NESC. [50104/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I propose that NESC and, indeed, the Government urgently look into the question of the nationalisation of our entire energy sector. I want to demonstrate one example to show the Taoiseach the problems we face. That example is the bills over the course of a year of one woman on a district heating system in an area in Dun Laoghaire. In the bill from January to March, the tariff is 0.8 cent...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Not on district heating.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just one instance.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [51710/22]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Our ability as Deputies to function in these buildings is crucially dependent on the ushers and service officers. They are the first in and the last out, but, in general, they are pretty poorly paid. I raised with the Taoiseach a while ago the issue of the divisors for calculating overtime for ushers still being based on the old Croke Park hours. Essentially, this deprives the ushers and...
- Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State was reported as saying, I think on Friday of last week, that the Irish people were not ready to join NATO yet. He revealed the cynical agenda and the attempt to condition Irish public opinion by exploiting the tragic situation in Ukraine to try to shred the last remnants of Ireland's neutrality. We all of course condemn in the strongest terms Putin's bloody imperialist...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier this week, I warned that the Government's eviction ban Bill might not protect people with notice-to-quit termination dates before its passage. Those concerns were dismissed. The Bill was published earlier and, sadly, it is very clear I was right. The Bill states explicitly that only those with termination dates that fall after its passage will receive protection against eviction....
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest the Minister pass them back now.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it divided up into different grades? Is that how it works? Can someone just register?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Film Sector Tax Credits: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----accounting tool but surely that should not absolve the production company from responsibility for its employees. We did not have time to drill into it further but Mr. Hickey said we need the DAC system as an accountancy tool for investors and to provide transparency about what happens financially on a particular production. I put it to the witnesses that it absolutely runs counter to...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 105. To ask the Minister for Health the action that he intends to take concerning the ongoing inability to staff the disability network teams; the impact that is having on early intervention for children with developmental delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50101/22]
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the witnesses. Their contributions have been fascinating. I am not sure what my questions are because I have to absorb so much of what has been said. It is interesting what the ESRI and Social Justice Ireland said, that when you take out the one-off measures it is a regressive budget. I agree. That is an important point for us to make. My questions revolve around the...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On that last point, is Professor Kinsella concerned that most of the offshore wind energy generation being planned will be in the hands of private companies and that there is potential for us to be the prey of speculators who have no real commitment to the welfare or long-term interests of the State?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is part of the plant being used as a film studio?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is empty at the moment, though.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government was under pressure and was belatedly forced to bring in a ban on evictions, and I am glad that was the case. As I pointed out in the past week, it now transpires from the legislation that any person whose termination date on a notice to quit came before the date of the emergency period commencing will not be protected from eviction. If you have already passed your termination...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no time to take amendments.