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Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Faced with an utterly catastrophic housing and homelessness crisis and with unprecedented resources available to it, this Government did absolutely nothing in its budget to deliver additional social and affordable housing. It has decided, in its bloody-minded way, to stick to a plan that has left us with record and ever-worsening numbers of people in homelessness and where rents are...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is backing the corporations and forgetting about the thousands of postgraduate researchers holding our universities together.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a complete list of all buildings owned by the State or any of the State agencies across Dún Laoghaire Rathdown; the occupancy rates and status of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43681/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the scale of no-reason evictions being carried out by a corporate landlord (details supplied) in Dublin in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43656/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he is aware of the scale of no-reason evictions being carried out by other corporate landlords in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43657/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to amend the law to offer protections to people whose pre-June 2022 tenancies are terminated by landlords refusing to offer further part-four tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to allow compulsory purchase of residential properties in circumstances, consistent with section 43.2 of the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43659/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The barbaric slaughter that Israel is visiting on the people of Gaza and its publicly stated intention to ethnically cleanse 1 million Palestinians from northern Gaza under the threat of massive aerial bombardment are war crimes. Does the Taoiseach acknowledge that his constant references to Israel defending itself are completely inappropriate in the face of Israeli war crimes publicly...

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: First Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Paul Murphy is taking some of it. One and a half minutes.

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: First Stage (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It depends on what one is the lead spokesperson for, or what particular portfolio one has. I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to direct the Central Bank to cap interest rates on private dwelling house mortgages at 3 per cent; and to provide for related matters. Hundreds of thousands of mortgage holders in this country have been absolutely fleeced and...

Mortgage Interest Rates Cap Bill 2023: First Stage (18 Oct 2023)

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

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will next meet. [43865/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the committee on economy and investment will next meet. [42349/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach often says there are no instant solutions to the housing crisis but I wish to suggest something the Government could do that could make a dramatic and rapid impact on it. I attended an ICTU conference on housing the other day where one of the other speakers was from Vienna. She pointed out that in Vienna now, 60% of all new developments are required to be social or affordable...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The big investors are buying a lot of them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 31. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with President Biden. [43866/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach can google the video on this. A number of years ago, Joseph Biden said that if Israel did not exist, the United States would have to invent it. He went on to explain what he meant by saying that the United States would have to station tens of thousands of US troops in the Middle East. Why did he say that? It gives us a little glimpse into why he has gone to Israel today to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, Britain invented it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It busted out of the UN partition plan immediately.

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The People Before Profit-Solidarity motion is very different from that of the Government or any of the Opposition parties but it is very much in line with the view of the overwhelming majority of Palestinians. What it attempts to convey is the truth about the nature of the Israeli regime, which is not a legitimate actor or a normal state. It is a terrorist state and an apartheid state. It...