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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is not. There is 60 minutes for Committee Stage. That is not enough time to deal with amendments.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent attendance at the UN General Assembly. [51711/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This morning Israeli forces raided several areas in the occupied West Bank. Six more Palestinians were killed and 21 were wounded. This is just a small part of a much more general escalation by Israel, with raids in Jenin and Nablus and blockades of whole communities. Many young people have been shot. There is also an ongoing attempt at ethnic cleansing in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Or Iraq.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland overseen by his Department. [53227/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The well-being framework rightly points to access to housing as a key component of well-being. For the more than 100 residents of Tathony House, an apartment complex in Dublin 8 with 35 households of workers, families and many children, their well-being was seriously shattered by an eviction notice from their landlord threatening the mass eviction of the entire block. Shockingly, the person...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is called Tathony House in Dublin 8.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Households.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Letters have gone to both.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the international unit of his Department. [51712/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To return to what the Taoiseach said about Palestine and his uncritical commitment to the so-called two-state solution, the entire history of the State of Israel has been 70 years of relentless ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinian people. The two-state solution is a mirage and a ploy promoted by Israel and the United States, behind which they continue the relentless campaign of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should stop misleading the Dáil.

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a lot of stuff to deal with in the Finance Bill. It is a big document. We will no doubt tease through a lot of it in more detail on Committee Stage. It is a telling fact that, faced with an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis and a shocking, disastrous, catastrophic – you just run out of adjectives to describe how bad the housing crisis is – housing crisis, the ESRI...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland is failing to meet its hopelessly inadequate targets to increase the supply of social and affordable housing; — according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the most accurate estimate for households with a housing need may be close to 122,000, when you include those on the...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just unbelievable. We are facing an unprecedented housing, homelessness, and accommodation crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people have been let down by the Government not providing the most basic thing, namely, a secure, affordable roof over the heads of individuals, families, and children. There are 122,000 households on the various housing lists. Almost 11,000 families, including...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all those who contributed to this discussion. I am not going to get into the war of statistics that these debates often descend into although I am not saying statistics are unimportant. The Minister has to start with acknowledging the truth. When the Government says the number on housing lists has falling it is a misrepresentation of the reality. According to the Parliamentary...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government admit the truth about those who need housing support and raise the thresholds to ensure they are entitled to that support?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been a lot of criticism about the state of O'Connell Street. It is a complex problem but it is mostly emblematic of a failure of Government policy on multiple fronts. I want to make a very simple point when people give out about activities that are going on on O'Connell Street. There used to be three supervised public toilets in the O'Connell Street vicinity. Now there is none....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A few supervised public toilets would be good, though.