Results 23,301-23,320 of 27,080 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Housing Provision (2 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the discussions he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the failure of Housing for All to deliver on its local authority build targets for 2022, particularly in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10595/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Housing Provision (2 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the role his Department has in ensuring the progress of the commitments in the national development plan in supporting the current public housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10592/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (2 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the progress of NSO 8 in the national development plan - "Transition to Climate Neutral and Climate Resilient Society"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10591/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (2 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 15 November 2022, if he will review and correct his previous response where he stated that the procedures were followed in relation to a complaint made to the Ombudsman's office concerning breach of a statutory requirement, under section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007, by...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has made the brutal and heartless decision to cast thousands of individuals, families, children and, increasingly often, elderly, vulnerable and sick people into homelessness, with all the suffering, hardship and fear that involves. At the very minimum, the Government should allow this House to take a vote on that decision. It should allow everyone to stand up and be counted...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have Private Member's time. We had a Bill that should have passed though.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said, it is disgusting what the Government has done consigning so many more people who have done nothing wrong to homelessness. On the purchase alternative, which the Government claims it will ramp up, is that to be an instruction to the local authorities to buy houses where people are threatened with eviction or is it simply that the Government will allow it, in which case it will not...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are entitled to nothing and they have been left hanging out to dry by the Government so far.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Government to do something to stop them being evicted?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People above the threshold.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what I asked.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: When?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because the affordable housing is benchmarked to the market.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [11360/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A case I have raised with the Taoiseach and repeatedly with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, will come up again in the courts on Friday. It concerns Jacqueline and her husband. Her husband works for a semi-State company and they have two children, one of whom has special needs. Jacqueline and her husband will be going in front of a judge as their landlord is seeking...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the council said could not happen. Will the Taoiseach give me a letter to give to the judge on Friday saying the Government now has a solution where the house could be bought for cost rental?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach do that to prevent the family being made homeless?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach answer my question?
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have got nothing.