Results 23,141-23,160 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In 1908 Ireland's greatest revolutionary and an immigrant, James Connolly, said, "Let no Irishman throw a stone at the foreigner; he may hit his own clansman." That is as good a summary of the reasons why thousands of people will take to the streets of Dublin this weekend, involving dozens of organisations, trade unionists, community activists, antiracism activists, housing campaigners,...

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I asked for this debate by the way, just so that the Minister knows.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Absolutely.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what we will be doing on Saturday.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if birth information requested from Tusla since October 2022 will be released and acknowledgments made to applicants for the distress caused by the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6518/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the contributors from the INOU, Social Justice Ireland and Age Action. Fair play to them for getting their heads around all this detail because I find it mind-bending trying to cross-reference the report's recommendations and the contributors’ responses and observations on them. I broadly agree with many of the points being made. I did not hear all the introductions. Is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the measures in place to prevent homelessness outside of the current moratorium on certain notices to quit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7635/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the homeless supports that are available for individuals and families who become homeless but are above the social housing income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7636/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full costs of providing emergency homeless accommodation broken down by local authority area and broken down by month over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7637/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is on what the tax rate would have to be to fund it, is it?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Strong words. Did Dr. Healy say he thinks the basic income should be based on MESL? Did I understand that correctly?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will Dr. Healy give a figure? I do not know if this corresponds to his idea of it, but in our pre-budget submission we argued that, as a minimum, people should go above about €290. I do not know if it was the MESL figure we used. We rounded it up to say people should have a minimum €300 per week.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are for going for it straight away.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Somebody said to me that if you listened to the Government ads, you would think that by going to the community welfare officer you would get a holiday in Barbados; in fact, you cannot even get an appointment.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to be clear, as I did not hear everything. Are there disagreements over the universal basic income and, if so, what are they? Could we hear more from Age Action? The point its representatives made about renters was important. I am dealing with a case that sums up the situation. It involves a couple, at least one of whom was working before he got early onset Alzheimer's disease....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite the Government's considerable efforts to put a positive spin on its cost-of-living package, the net fact is that the vast majority of workers, pensioners and social welfare recipients are going to be very considerably less well off because increases in the cost of living and inflation are far in excess of the small increases given in the budget and the one-off measures being proposed...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has let people down, despite its best efforts to spin today's package.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a fraction of inflation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [5893/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In including in Government policy the need for cost-rental and affordable schemes, the Government is acknowledging, rightly, that even if someone is over the social housing income threshold, that person still cannot afford market rents or prices. However, the delivery of cost-rental or affordable housing is pitifully slow. In my area, it is virtually non-existent. There is a cohort of...