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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach needs to look at that. The criteria are not aligning-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for the people for whom the scheme is supposed to be providing.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Public Services will next meet. [55112/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to try to explain the cost-rental scheme to the Taoiseach again. I know it is a bit technical but it is a Government scheme. The point about cost-rental housing is that it is supposed to be for people who are above the social housing income threshold but below €66,000 in net income. However, as well as the income criterion there is an affordability criterion which means the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council. [55113/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I note that the Taoiseach discussed the dire situation in Gaza at the British-Irish Council. The Scottish Government has, quite rightly, been very critical of the massacre that is going on in Gaza. This is quite different from the British Government which seems to be cheerleading on the massacre of people in Gaza. Did the Taoiseach discuss the plight of citizens or citizens' families who...

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Zak Hania.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at COP28. [55114/23]

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is obviously important legislation for many reasons given the huge importance and influence of digital services and social media, and just how much our lives now are caught up with the digital world, information technology, online economic activity and all of that stuff. Particularly important in our thinking on this are the recent horrible events where a small group of malign far-right...

Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, a Cheann Comhairle.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (12 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to account for the length of time it takes to acquire a motorbike licence in Ireland; what he intends to do to rectify this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55064/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Christmas should a time of joy, but for huge numbers of people it is a time of extreme financial pressure and hardship. James, who has worked all his life, had to go on a jobseeker's payment because of an injury that left him unable to do his old job. He went onto the back to education allowance. He has a wife and three children and because the Government has excluded people who have been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for those one-off payments and fuel allowances-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and additional payments to be extended to the people in those categories.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about these groups?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it will not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why have they been left out?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are being left out unfairly.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (13 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on the targets and delivery of social and affordable housing, including targets for cost rental, LA or AHB provided affordable to buy and social, since the beginning of Housing for All and the actual delivery of each type up to end of quarter 3 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55692/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Mr. Honohan for his contribution. I am playing serious catch-up in terms of trying to get my around this. I am perusing the introduction and I apologise for being late. I hope that he understands our difficulty because he said it was quite technical. In his opening statement, as provided, he stated: Here’s a question you should put to them [I presume Mr. Honohan means the...