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Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The victims of the secret payments and the organised cover-up and deception around those payments are the ordinary licence holders who can go to jail if they do not pay their TV licence and the nearly 1,800 workers in RTÉ who did not benefit from these staggering salaries, payments or slush funds but who often exist on low or very modest pay and endured pay cuts, pay freezes, bogus...

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the independent film fund? Will we look at that?

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is RTÉ money.

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not. It is RTÉ expenditure.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Film Industry (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 268. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or the relevant senior official in his Department will meet with representatives from an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the procedures dealing with cases in the WRC involving the employment rights of workers in the film industry; if such a meeting could be arranged prior to the summer recess; to confirm whether...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if money granted by Caranua to a survivor of an institution that was to be used, only for household goods, but not yet used may still be claimed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32110/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the appalling conditions that 3,000 bulls and heifers were subjected to on 30 May 2023 on a shipment of cattle that left Greenore Port in Ireland, with the destination of Haifa port in Israel; the animal welfare regulations and inspections that are in place to prevent these cruel conditions; if there are animal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (4 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 624. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are being implemented to rectify the situation where nursing homes prior to the fair deal scheme were mischarging residents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32390/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation at RTÉ is an unholy mess and a scandal that has done extraordinary damage to the vital institution of public service broadcasting in this country. It involves secret payments mislabelled as consultancy; an organised deception of the public, the Dáil and the workers in RTÉ; a barter account that looks like a slush fund, and then three barter accounts that may look...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is simply no justification for a small number of people at the top to get salaries that are multiples of what the ordinary journalists, crew and workers in RTÉ get. This notion of "the talent" implied a sort of hierarchy. The truth is, to make a show, it is not just a contractor or highly-paid presenter that is needed. Sound people, researchers, a producer and all sorts of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say anything.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [32541/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we extend the the time for the grouping? The next one is short.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If someone on the social housing list who is facing eviction gets the housing assistance payment, HAP, it is nearly impossible to find accommodation. If someone is over the threshold for social housing, however, they are absolutely goosed because they do not get HAP and cost rental is for the most part unavailable, so they are trapped. I am dealing with a working mother and her child who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the NESC. [32542/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the creation of a State construction company to directly build both social and affordable housing and to accelerate the retrofitting of local authority housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33204/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I argue here that we need a State construction company. I think even the Minister of State would acknowledge that the delivery of social and affordable housing is less than the Government had hoped for. It has not met its own targets, and when you look at what has been built by the private sector, average prices in Dublin are now €498,000. In my area they are €610,000. If we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope we can move off the script now to have a real conversation. Of the 30,000 homes delivered, 7,000 of those were social housing, including approved housing bodies, AHBs. However, 73% of those were bought or leased. In other words, what the State is actually delivering on a not-for-profit basis is a tiny proportion. The councils only built 1,680 houses. Some 8,000 were build-to-rent,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: More than 12,500 people are homeless. I am telling the Minister of State, and he can deny it all he likes, but for working people it is currently not affordable to rent or buy. It is just not affordable. I am dealing with a family, which I might address in another question. The father works in a semi-State company. He is on a decent salary. They are going to be homeless because they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing to disagree with. It is a fact.