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Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----says there are 70,000 planning permissions but the applicants are sitting on them. As soon as someone gets a planning permission, the value of the property goes up and then he or she sits on it for ten years. The Government allows that as well. When will it do something about this? My last point is topical. He now has a €10 billion surplus. I have a very simple proposal....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies have been received from Deputy Mairéad Farrell. All those present in the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. I propose that we go into private session in order to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The profits from a public service go to build infrastructure in Australia. It is madness.

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: First Stage (20 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's decision to lift the eviction ban is going to cause thousands of people to face the terrifying prospect of homelessness. That is particularly the case because of the abysmal failure of the Government to control rent increases. Over the past ten years, rents on average have risen by 82%, while in Europe rents in the same period have only gone up by 18% because they have rent...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: First Stage (20 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (18 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on when the BusConnects phase for the Dún Laoghaire Rathdown area will be rolled out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16583/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (18 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why taxi drivers legally have to offer card paying facilities, while this method of payment is optional for all other members of the business community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17321/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the treatment available in Ireland to a patient who is suffering from stage four oesophageal cancer which has spread; if no treatment is available, what options are available to the patient to have treatment outside of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18620/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [18277/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is involved in a systematic campaign of trying to condition public opinion to move Ireland away from neutrality. It is exploiting every dire crisis around the world to further make the case for reviewing neutrality and, ultimately, moving away from it into a closer alliance with NATO and the EU militarisation project. The latest example is Sudan. All present have witnessed...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How about EU funding of militias?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raised it here back in 2018.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would look into it if I were the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [18278/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The decision to waive levies for developers is a disgraceful recycling of an already failed policy. Does the Taoiseach not remember LIHAF, which involved subsidies to developers to build infrastructure and was supposed to deliver affordable housing? Within weeks of LIHAF being introduced, the requirement to get 40% back in affordable housing was dropped and we got virtually nothing in terms...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the European Council. [18279/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should acquaint himself with the theory of Frankenstein's monster, because the militias that are running around and now killing Sudanese people are, in a significant part, the Frankenstein's monsters that have been created by hundreds of millions of euro of European Union funding. The leader of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, which was formerly the Janjaweed militias that...

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion on the very important subject of how mortgage holders are being absolutely creased with the mortgage interest increases they have experienced as a result of not only the rising ECB rates but also, and this is critical, as far as we are concerned, the profiteering of the banks. It is for that reason we think the Sinn Féin proposal...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government seeks to pick holes in People Before Profit-Solidarity's Rent Reduction Bill, but offers absolutely no alternative on how to control rents that are off the charts and that are directly contributing to the worst homelessness crisis on record. A record number of 11,600 families, including nearly 4,000 children, are languishing in emergency accommodation and thousands more have...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who will?

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