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Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have worked on a few building sites having said that but I did not do footings.

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not do footings; I did dry lining and labouring.

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remember bricklayers pointing out that the work that was being done was substandard and that it would lead to cracks in the building and the occurrence of damp within a very short period. Of course, lo and behold, that is exactly what happened. The qualified bricklayer who had experience and knew what work should be done to do those things properly, was outside the gate protesting because...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I just want to give the House a laugh, albeit a grim laugh, by reading from The Irish Timesfrom 2011. Mr. Conor Pope wrote an article at that time when it was announced that the Government was going to deregulate the electricity market. It is a real exercise in the ideological blindness and stupidity of people who believe in the efficiency of markets. In all seriousness, the ESB, the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The banks that are going to pass on the ECB rate hikes, the seventh that mortgage have experienced in the past year, are making absolutely obscene profits. The dirty secret of the hardship and misery that is being imposed on mortgage holders who are facing €500 and €600 a month - thousands of euro every year - in increased mortgage interest payments that many cannot afford and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do it exactly the way the Government did it with moneylenders-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----where it put a maximum percentage that they can charge in interest. Bring the interest rates down to 3% to stop the profiteering.

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Regional Group for tabling this important motion. I note that it is the second time they have tabled this motion, which indicates the failure of the Government to respond fully and adequately to the critical issue of equality for people with disabilities when it comes to transport. The equality to live independently, to participate fully in all aspects of life and to be provided...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 428. To ask the Minister for Health when a catering assistant who worked in a nursing home all through the pandemic for a company (details supplied) will receive their pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20467/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The case of Micheline and her husband should bring shame on this Government for its treatment of older people and for not being able to provide them with somewhere to live. Another issue in the same area of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown is the treatment of children in families who are being made homeless at the moment. On Friday, I scrambled around with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----we have children who are being put into situations that are simply not acceptable.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the Government going to do to prevent this continuing?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need solutions temporarily.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21528/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two points. First, given the scandal of both asylum seekers coming to this country who are now sleeping in tents and are not being provided with anywhere to go, and the issue of homelessness, especially now it is likely to get worse as a result of the eviction ban being lifted, how can it be that the Jurys Hotel building with hundreds of rooms has been just lying empty for years? It...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tomorrow night the now multi-award-winning film about the Debenhams dispute will be shown here in audiovisual room. The Taoiseach is invited, by the way, direct from the shop stewards. Vincent Browne will be hosting a question-and-answer panel afterwards. The film highlights very serious questions about, obviously, the treatment of the Debenhams workers, but also how the whole insolvency...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on European Union and international affairs will next meet. [21529/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yesterday, 40 Israeli jets took part in a bombing operation in Gaza that claimed the lives of three senior officials from the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad and nine civilians, including three children. This comes on top of the most deadly year in decades in the West Bank where, day in, day out and week in, week out, Israel has launched military raids into Palestinian territory, towns,...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A day where we are discussing Europe is an opportunity to talk about what real internationalism should mean. I have little doubt that the majority of people who support and subscribe to the idea of the EU are motivated to do so by a genuine belief in international solidarity and co-operation. They reject a narrow parochial view of our place in the world but believe in genuine...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this important motion. Profiteering is the problem. It is as simple as that. Grocery prices have risen by 17%, an estimated increased cost of €1,200 for the average household. That is additional profit being made by somebody else. We all know who is making those profits. It is the big supermarket chains, wholesalers and meat processors....