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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did they-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A failure of oversight.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with church leaders. [61329/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the interest of time, I will let my question go.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Taoiseach when he will next meet with the social partners. [61330/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear about what I was saying about Debehams, the Debenhams group which had been taken over by three vulture funds including two banks, Barclays and Bank of Ireland, saddled a floating charge of €200 million on the Irish operation. That would have been clear to anyone who was looking at it and should have been clear to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment when KPMG...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit’s no-confidence motion had nothing to do with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O’Brien, as an individual. It had nothing to do with cynicism and certainly was not a stunt. Rather, it was a desperate attempt to force the Government to acknowledge its housing policies are failing thousands upon thousands of real human beings in the most terrible way. It is...

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Come on.

Confidence in Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Motion (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not. I campaigned for it for 15 years.

Appropriation Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I must comment on my disappointment that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has left, given that the Government earlier, on the confidence motion, spent a lot of its time claiming rather disingenuously that members of the Opposition were not here. We will see to what extent anybody really bought that, but it was part of a concerted effort to prevent the real, substantial...

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a matter of urgency and necessity that we re-nationalise our energy sector and put it back on a not-for-profit footing. I say this from the perspective of people who, when we are faced with the sort of energy crisis we are now witnessing, are being crucified by a market, for-profit system which has no capacity to control the price of heating, energy and hot water that human beings need...

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are always ignored.

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Try growing a few trees.

Nationalisation of Energy System: Motion [Private Members] (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Minister of State. I agree with him there.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Government continue to repeat the false mantra that objections by residents groups to planning applications, rather than the speculation of property investors are the cause of the housing crisis and the slow delivery of housing and residential development, particularly when a Government report says that it is speculation? The report, published in July, shows 75,000 planning...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no evidence in that document - not a single mention of planning.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To say this is a mess would be understating the situation. It is difficult to know where to begin. I cannot really see credible justifications for some of the provisions in this Bill. It is being rammed through Second, Committee and Remaining Stages in one day, although it is dealing with such serious matters. This is being done without proper scrutiny or any real evidence or...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We recognise the board has to function. However, the idea that the Minister will appoint the chair and board for a year and then have the option to do so for another year is a difficulty for us.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We accept there needs to be an interim process, but the period involved does not need to be a year. We want the whole thing scrutinised and discussed in detail in here in terms of how all of this will work and to ensure it is genuinely open, transparent and diverse and not subject to untoward influences from particular industry stakeholders, interests or political influence. Therefore,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Liquidations (13 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department's attention was drawn to a £200 million floating charge to a company (details supplied) that was signed off between two other companies on 9 April 2019, and that exactly 12months to the day when the charge became valid, the workers in the Irish branch of the company were sent a generic email to inform them...