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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In a different context relating to the financial behaviour of film companies, for example, actors have pointed out that the most creative thing in the Irish film industry is the accountancy. Unless it has a lot of resources to check on the financial position of these companies, will the Central Bank actually be in a position to identify and prevent creative accounting which can allow these...
- 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.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 419. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 771 of 20 September 2023, if he will now provide the details requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55895/23]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Because they are not offering the forbearance they should be offering.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In my area, the average rent is €2,500 a month. A person will require €30,000 a year in after-tax income to pay the average rent. That is pretty much 100% of all of the after-tax income of the average worker. It is completely unsustainable. How do we address that completely unsustainable and unaffordable rental situation? Things are worse in my part of Dublin. In most...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a quick supplementary question. I know Mr. Hall probably wants to come in. Mr. Kennedy has said what he has said, and it is a point to which Deputy Healy-Rae alluded. I often hear that mantra. I ask Mr. Kennedy to respond to the following. I challenge whether in practice, rather than in economic theory, an increase in supply brings down price. The obvious example is the Celtic...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It will be Deputy Smith.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: On 22 November, we tabled a motion calling on the Government to instigate action under the genocide convention over Israel's genocide in Gaza. The Government voted that down. At that point, 14,000 people had been murdered by Israel. To date, approximately 24,000 people have been murdered by Israel. Another 6,000 to 7,000 are buried under the rubble and 2 million people have been...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Gaza? There is a genocide going on. Will the Government give us a debate-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----where we can discuss the genocide, the worst crime-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the worst possible crime?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government give us that debate?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A genocide.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We asked for a debate here and we asked for it at the Business Committee. It is a genocide.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government not give us the debate at least?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have the debate?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we have an answer from the Government on whether it is going to allow for a debate on genocide? I mean, seriously, the Minister did not even answer. Is the Government going to give us a debate on a genocide that is happening and the ICJ case? It is shameful if it does not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe we could do what South Africa did.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a genocide.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not have it for weeks.