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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not smirking, actually.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised, and indeed have campaigned for some years on, the plight of people studying psychology and trying to get doctorates in psychology. We have a chronic deficit of psychologists in terms of assessments for children with special needs in education, health and in many other areas. In fairness, the Government responded to the campaigning of psychologists by announcing funding for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about now?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not fair to leave people in debt. What about people now?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the proposed child poverty unit in his Department. [19371/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Child poverty has significantly increased as a result of the cost-of-living crisis. It has increased from 202,000 to 236,000 children facing enforced deprivation. The number at risk of poverty has jumped by about 20,000. We now have 89,000 children living in consistent poverty. All of those suggest a serious failure of this Government to protect children, who are our most vulnerable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Following neatly on from Deputy McAuliffe’s intervention regarding the cost rental the Government trumpets, I will highlight something important for the Taoiseach and the Government. If someone is over the social housing income thresholds, that individual is not entitled to HAP or social housing, obviously, so the Government, under pressure, developed cost rental. What are the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-East Inner City Initiative (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with the broad principle of what Deputy McAuliffe said. We should have this approach in every area where there are concentrated pockets of significant disadvantage. We need a much more proactive and on-the-ground approach in order to address some of the persistent, often intergenerational problems that can be concentrated in areas of particular disadvantage. Despite what some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On evictions, the Minister knows I totally disagree with the decision to lift the moratorium. I have just got a text from a family who have the bailiffs coming on Tuesday. Both parents are working and they have two kids. The woman works in an insurance company. If she has to go into hostel accommodation, she will also lose her job. Please tell me what I am supposed to do or what they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but the woman in question was three days outside the look-back. I have written to the Minister about that as well. It is unbelievable. Four years on, this woman, who is working and contributing to Irish society, is stuck in emergency accommodation. I then said that maybe cost-rental housing would be an option but cost rental is a flipping lottery. Somebody who has been four years in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. On leasing, our colleague said that leasing is better than being in emergency accommodation. That is true, but I cannot for the life of me understand, when completed new developments are on the market, why our local authorities, including mine recently, end up leasing rather than buying them, when we have all this money available. It is self-evidently better value for the public and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister announce it next week?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal basis on which she can refuse to answer Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 21 March 2023 in relation to the annual rental costs for the current temporary accommodation and site of a school (details supplied); if such a request for those costs is not disclosed, how oversight and transparency on the expenditure of these public funds are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 282 and 292 of 23 February 2023, while noting his acknowledgement of the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General Report for 2018 that the previous cost-benefit analysis for State Aid for forestry 2014-2021 failed to account for a number of factors, the reason he does not...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 23 February 2023, while noting his announcement that he is 'reassessing its policy with regard to future afforestation on organic soils and that this will be informed by the UN Global Peatlands Assessment', if he will re-examine his reply in the context of this report's recommendations...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are concerns within his Department regarding health and safety issues regarding rotten ash trees breaking off and falling within plantations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19723/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately and without further bureaucracy or prejudice grant permission to remove rotten ash trees resulting from chalara fraxinea, ash dieback disease affected this year, given the serious health and safety risks associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19724/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal position regarding liability where dead or rotten ash plants within plantations fall causing injury; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19725/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 8 February 2023, if he will provide an update on an assessment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19879/23]