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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Five.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Jackie's daughter wrote to the Tánaiste. Maybe he could respond to her letter?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are over the threshold. Does the Tánaiste not get that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are banging down their door for weeks. They are not going to do it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are waiting on an instruction from you guys.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are submissions on planning developments; that is it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are tens of thousands of planning permissions. Give me a break. There is no shortage of planning permissons - none.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It could not be worse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It could not be worse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank TASC for its very interesting submission. I am interested in the points made in respect of the health service. There was reference to the complexities arising from the two-tier system. I ask the witnesses to elaborate on that. There are certainly complexities and great inequalities as a result of the two-tier system. There is further complexity arising from the fact that much of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In TASC's vision of things, would we get rid of private health insurance altogether? I am in favour of doing so. To me, private health insurance is just parasitical. It flows, though, from the fact that there is fear about the inadequacy of the public health system. People feel they have to take it out as, literally, insurance against having to deal with being on a waiting list for years...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation in this context? The loads of money, resources, time and billing and all the administration that goes into the existence of a private health insurance industry is all waste. It is accounted for as health spending. We are often told Ireland has a very high level of health spending, but it actually has nothing to do with the provision of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce any supports, such as HAP, for households who are facing eviction or seeking accommodation but cannot afford current market rents but are above the social housing income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11856/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the eviction ban at the end of March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11854/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the final figure for local authority own build social housing completions in the four Dublin local authorities in 2022; his views that this represents success or failure in terms of addressing the chronic housing crisis in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11853/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and other bodies to ensure the immediate servicing of the public housing lands in Old Conna and Rathmichael to accelerate the delivery of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/23]

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: They can change them.