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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Palestinians in Jerusalem do not get to vote at all.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 4 2022 will be published. [4417/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: For a very long time, some of us campaigned for the Government to introduce a policy of using public money to buy the homes of people threatened with eviction. Very slowly, and not very consistently, the Government has started to do that. It is not doing enough. A cohort of people is not getting any benefit from this, namely, those who happen to be over the social housing income...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The tenant in situ scheme.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can it apply to people over the threshold?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People who are over the threshold are being evicted. They are not entitled to anything.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because it is not a full eviction ban.
- Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I accept that the Minister has taken measures, but it is self-evident that they are not working. We have 600,000 people living on or below the poverty line, hundreds of thousands utilising food banks, hundreds of thousands in arrears with their energy bills from last year, and the highest number of people in emergency accommodation that we have ever seen. The numbers mask the reality of the...
- Energy Costs and Windfall Taxes: Motion [Private Members] (15 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Social Democrats and Deputy Whitmore for tabling the motion, which we are very happy to support. The main reason we have a cost-of-living crisis is profiteering and privatisation. That is what needs to be addressed. People Before Profit first tabled a motion in the House in October 2021 calling for the introduction of price caps on energy, gas, oil and electricity. We have...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (15 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We are currently getting regular radio advertisements and other advertisements from the Government Information Service, GIS, indicating to people that support is available for them if they are impacted by the cost-of-living crisis. The problem is that people who are impacted by that crisis are often very uncertain about these fairly general announcements and need a human being they can go...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (15 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and police reform division of his Department. [5892/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (15 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There are major problems in processing basic but often urgent and critical applications for people in my local authority. I think it is part of the wider problem of recruitment and retention in staff in key areas of the public service. I will give just two examples. If people are looking for medical priority in the housing list, often in very serious situations, they are now having to wait...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Wholesale.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Jackie and her husband are a lovely couple in their 50s. He has worked all his life for a semi-State company. Tomorrow morning, I will be accompanying them and their two children to the District Court where their landlord is seeking enforcement proceedings to evict them from the home in which they have lived all their lives. Because they are over the threshold, they are not entitled to...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are in court tomorrow.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it does not. The Tánaiste just does not understand. I have been saying it for weeks.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because the notice to quit was before the Government introduced the ban, it does not apply.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have only got one minute. I have said it about 20 times in this House.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am seriously worried about their welfare.