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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We used it in November and the Government voted it down.

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: History will judge harshly the people who stood by while the genocide was taking place and refused to call it for what it is and do as South Africa, a country that knows about apartheid and colonialism, has done. South Africa stood up, with an Irish legal representative who did this country proud, and presented an overwhelming case that Israel is guilty of the worst crime humanity can...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Palestinian people and the 60,000 or 70,000 people who were on the streets last weekend do not understand why the Government will not do this. Is it because it is afraid of America?

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Doherty and Sinn Féin for tabling this motion to highlight the malign influence of vulture funds and investment funds in helping to create, perpetuate and ever worsen the dire housing crisis that we face in this country, which is causing so much hardship for hundreds of thousands of people. It has contributed substantially to the record levels of homelessness and is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On New Year's Day, the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, issued an absolutely damning ruling against Metropolitan Films, which is one of the biggest film producing companies, with tens of millions of euro of public money having been issued to it over the years. Awards in the region of hundreds of thousands of euro have been made to film crew workers. This ruling revealed systematic...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Deputy Murphy has made many of my points. We welcome the Bill. Single parents suffer disproportionately from poverty. That has been well documented and remained consistently the case for many years now. The fact that the amount of maintenance single parents might receive, the vast majority of whom are women, is means-tested and then impacts on their social welfare payments is completely...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, sure. If the Deputy is sceptical and if he does not believe Oxfam, he should check out the Central Bank. It may be a source that the Deputy might consider more reliable. I believe Oxfam is very reliable. The Central Bank has started to produce something we have long asked for, which is figures on the distribution of wealth in this country. In its quarterly bulletins at the beginning...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Very good.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 136. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to consider establishing an Ombudsman for An Post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2185/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 176. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to reconsider the refusal of a critical skills employment permit for a person (details supplied) in light of the applicant's legal residency in the country as an international protection applicant, and in light of the applicant's Irish Dental Council registration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2181/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the guidelines set out in section 4.2.4 of the national guidelines for the assessment and allocation process for social housing provision for people with a disability, in relation to the time scale of processing applications, have a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2289/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the commitment to keep all Coillte lands in public ownership in the Programme for Government and the claim on Coillte's website that land is available for sale; the steps the Government has taken to ensure that Coillte land is not sold or privatised during the life of this Government. [2182/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (18 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of Coillte's advertised policy on the sale and leasing of public land; how much land has been sold or leased since he became Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2183/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of reports of human rights abuses in Balochistan, Pakistan; if he has taken the matter up with the Government of Pakistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1863/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure Ireland’s commitments under the political declaration regarding the use of explosive weapons in populated areas are being vindicated in relation to the ongoing bombardment by Israel of Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on earth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason people with low energy usage between July 2022 and June 2023 are being penalised by ineligibility for the electricity credit, as many of these people are on low incomes and are desperately in need of the credits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1645/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of reports that the EPA and SEAI are only including Dublin Airport’s on-site operating emissions in their reports, that this would not include emissions driven by its core business (aviation) or any associated road traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1659/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 351. To ask the Minister for Finance to investigate reports that performing loans with AIB are being transferred to debt collectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1155/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 361. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to previous home owners who can demonstrate a housing need which they cannot meet for reasons of breakdown of a relationship, insolvency and so on or whether there is any other scheme available to help with a purchase deposit for this cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1550/24]