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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if they are supervised.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not Hammerson.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the problem.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned investment in culture and arts in the shared island programme. I draw his attention to something that was raised in testimony at the Committee on Budgetary Oversight about the Irish film industry by both Equity, which represents artists and performers, and representatives of crew, the people who work behind the camera, if you like. Both of them were testifying to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [53228/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For months and months, the taxi representative groups such as Tiománaí Tacsaí na hÉireann, the Taxi Alliance, the National Private Hire & Taxi Association, NPHTA, and the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation have been asking the Government to extend the arbitrary ten-year rule on vehicle licensing for taxi drivers to 15 years. A public consultation concluded on 12...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If a vehicle passes the NCT, it passes the NCT.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has been forced to introduce an eviction ban. Over the past four years, People Before Profit has brought in four different Bills proposing eviction bans. The Government has argued against them. It has dragged its heels and resisted. It put up every argument as to why it could not happen and why it was problematic constitutionally, but when sufficient pressure came on, it...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will investigate the poor service provided by company (details supplied) on many of its routes, including late and cancelled services and no updates on the app; the steps that can be taken to improve this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53051/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that local authorities have bought with tenants in situ; the number of local authorities that are in the process of buying same; the number that have made enquiries in relation to buying same broken down by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53030/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all housing estates and properties not under the purview of local authorities; the number of units and residencies individually affected in Dún Laoghaire, Rathdown and across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52898/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 457. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if illness benefit recipients will the receive the November 2022 cost-of-living double payment; and if not, if she will outline the rationale behind that decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53120/22]

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 20, to delete “2023” and substitute “2024”. The eviction ban, or the deferment of termination dates for certain tenancies, to be more accurate, is a belated concession on the part of the Government to the long-standing demand of many of us here in the Opposition that it should ban no-fault evictions at least for the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have to get onto the other amendments but the Minister did not really respond to the central argument. I heard the Irish Property Owners Association representatives humming and hawing on "Morning Ireland" when they were asked whether they were actually going to take legal action. They did not sound to me like they were going to take action because they do not have a very solid base for...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all get trolled. The existing Constitution allows for a delimiting of the rights of private property holders in the interests of the common good. That is what we did during the Covid pandemic, what the Minister has done with his very limited rent controls and so on and what he is doing here. Given that this House has declared an emergency, there is a very sound basis for maintaining the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard the Minister.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can say it again.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the loopholes around ability to pay rent, the justification offered by the Minister for the emergency period - and it is the emergency period as defined by this legislation - surely exists as long as this House believes that it is an emergency. The Minister, however, has defined it as relating to the winter. Why is it limited from November to March if it is not to do with the winter?...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The house is not like a mansion. It is terraced house. What does the Minister want me to say? It is a terraced house that is smaller than a lot of council houses, if that is what he is asking.