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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Logically, therefore, if some of the other problems we have in that regard relate to energy and timber costs, as we have discovered, then investment in trees might not be a bad idea either.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but it is okay in principle so long as the ongoing costs are not increasing, and they could potentially decrease. Another thing suggested to us as a simple measure, which would be one-off and could be done quite cheaply, is to insulate for free everybody's attics. It would be basic insulation. A major amount of energy is being lost just through people's roofs. We do not have to do...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. Mr. Barnes was saying we should not get into a wage-price spiral and to be careful about raising incomes to match inflation because then we could potentially be locking in expenditure that will fuel inflation and some of the price increases may be temporary and things come back down and so and so forth. Are council members worried about the other scenario, which is that if inflation...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (30 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It could potentially offer an opportunity to redistribute a little as well, could it not? One of the facts, surprisingly, that people are acknowledging now is that excess profits are being made in certain sectors of the economy, whereas other people are losing out because of rising energy costs. The latter is benefiting energy companies. It is now broadly accepted as an idea that we might...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Saturday, 17 December is the day the new Taoiseach will be elected. The Cost of Living Coalition has called a demonstration outside the Dáil for that day. It is a very broad group of trade unions, students unions, disability groups, anti-poverty and housing groups and believes we do not need a new Taoiseach but a new Government. If there was not enough evidence of that need, we have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was zero. Does he know how many Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council built in the first six months of this year? Zero. Does he know how many South Dublin County Council built in the first six months of this year? Zero. Is the Minister serious in claiming his Government's plan is a success when it has failed to spend nearly €750 million against a housing crisis of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Planning permissions are not the issue in the housing crisis. We have 80,000 planning permissions granted at the moment. The problem is that those in the private sector has no interest in solving this crisis. Why would it when it can command record house prices and record rents? It has a vested interest in not solving the crisis because if there was lots of cheap accommodation it could...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it control rents and make them affordable? Will it deliver public housing via our local authorities whose job it is to do so?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the first time in 15 years.

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have little to add to what Deputy Smith said on the substantive issue except to encourage those in the Construction Defects Alliance, the Apartment Owners' Network and all those campaigning on this issue to keep up their battle. It is because they have campaigned that they are forcing this discussion in this House and that they will force the Government to give them the 100% redress they...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no balance to be struck if people are going to be homeless.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They would want to get a move on.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we face into Christmas, the chronic shortage of taxis will become even more of an issue and will deter people from going into central Dublin and other city centres. The National Transport Authority, NTA, has acknowledged there are now 3,000 taxi licences that are inactive. Taxi groups have been saying for some time - I reiterate their call - that drivers should be allowed to transfer...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to respond to the question I asked, if he could.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are 3,000 inactive licences. Let them transfer.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are war crimes different if they take place in different countries? Is illegal occupation different if it takes place in different countries? Are systematic abuses of human rights different if they take place in different countries? Are crimes against humanity different if they take place in different countries? I would say most people would answer "No" to those questions. Abuses of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is it so unattractive to be a bus driver? This is the question I have. From everything I hear from bus drivers the root of this is that they have to work, and are increasingly pushed to work, very long unsociable shifts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, grand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I just asked one. My very first question was why it is so unattractive to be a bus driver. I am elaborating that question by pointing out that what bus drivers tell me is that it is very unattractive. Those starting out as bus drivers with Dublin Bus receive approximately €6,000 less than other people working there longer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the pressure being put on drivers to do with competition over wages and conditions in the competitive tendering model?