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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By the luck of the lottery I get a second chance to ask the Minister of State about this report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. The big phenomenon the report identifies is uncommenced apartments. It states that the number of apartment complexes that are getting planning permission way exceeds the number that are built. What is the Government going to do about that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has just read out the same note he read out ten minutes ago.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I did not. The transcript will show that I am trying to develop the argument while the Minister of State is just stonewalling because he does not want to acknowledge the fundamental point. This is evidence. It is not just someone's opinion or a political policy; it is evidence produced by the Minister of State's Department and what it shows is that there is no problem getting planning...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would say it is fortuitous.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State's Department said that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, the Minister of State's Department completely ignores the data it collects and the analysis it carries out. The Minister of State continues to trot out mantras without the slightest evidence. I am afraid the evidence produced by his Department shows there is no problem with planning permission. The number of planning permissions being granted is increasing dramatically, it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not me. This is the Minister of State's Department's report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is sort of-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Shortly after 9 a.m., the sheriff and ten private security employees, accompanied by two gardaí, acting on behalf of Ernst & Young receivers and a bank - I am not sure which bank - cruelly and ruthlessly evicted by force a family of four in the constituency of the Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Richmond. This is a family of two...

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is something kind of Orwellian about this Bill. It arises from European Union policy, although it also contains a national element, as has been described, to control the export of dual-use items, technology, things that might have apparently benign uses but can also be used for military purposes. We want to control the export of those things presumably to prevent greater proliferation...

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No problem.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a cap on mortgage interest rates to prevent mortgage holders and families being impoverished by rising interest rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21568/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the recent examination of the section 481 film tax credit by the Oireachtas Committee on Budgetary Oversight, and in particular the concerns raised by an organisation (details supplied) about the use of buy-out contracts by producer companies on the intellectual property rights of performers and the issues raised by film crew...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 383. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if hardship funds are available for victims of domestic violence who are left in financial trouble after leaving their abusive partner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21076/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how An Post will rectify deductions made in errors to the extra cost-of-living Department of Social Protection payment of €200 for some recipients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21083/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also wish to raise the shocking and inexcusable events that happened on Sandwith Street over the weekend. Obviously, there is no doubt that we should all unreservedly condemn attacks on homeless and vulnerable asylum seekers. We should be clear - from talking to people in the locality, it is absolutely clear - that politically motivated far-right activists were down in the area actively...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I detest racism or anybody who whips it up. To meet desperate people who are homeless on the streets with hatred and fire is appalling and has to be condemned. I am telling the Minister that I spoke to people this morning in the locality who were equally appalled and oppose absolutely what was done. However, they told me there are many vulnerable people in the area. We need to remember...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not give excuses. I said there are no excuses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course not.