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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is a no-brainer, to be honest, in that, in particular when looking at a regional spatial strategy, we have to look at the state of water quality in a region. As Deputy O'Callaghan has already indicated, we are not performing well in this area. The poor state of water quality is pretty tragic given what the natural state of this country should be and how it is perceived by many people...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I also ask the Minister of State to clarify the position. The point of our amendment is to provide the maximum possible amount of time for the public to have an input into a strategy or a revision to a strategy. I take the point that if one makes something, one still has to put it into a document that is consumable by the public. I understand that rationale to some extent. Our amendment is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I take this opportunity to indicate that I will leave myself the option of submitting a further amendment for Report Stage. In the context of planning statements, I mentioned that the requirement to assess housing needs as part of the regional spatial and economic strategy should be more specific and should include an assessment of specifically social and affordable housing needs and not...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This is not about the personal feelings of politicians; this is about the welfare and future of the people of this country. The Taoiseach's unexpected decision to signal that he is stepping down as Taoiseach bears all the signs of a Government that has lost confidence in itself because it knows it has lost the confidence of the majority of people in this country. We do not need a shifting...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is the democratic thing to do. The Taoiseach says that we in the Opposition think things should be perfect. No, we do not - we know perfection is not possible. However, in one of the richest countries in the world, we think it is shameful that we have the worst homelessness crisis in the history of the State and it gets worse week in, week out and month in, month out. Some 4,000...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The bit the Taoiseach does not point out is that as we face this ever-worsening homelessness and housing crisis, the fact is that house prices and rents in this country now mean that the most basic thing that people need to operate in our society, an affordable roof over their head, is out of the reach of the vast majority of working people. When you look at the chronic state of our health...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I see their price too.
- Death of Charlie Bird: Expressions of Sympathy (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I join everyone else in paying tribute to Charlie Bird and express, on behalf of People Before Profit, our condolences and sympathies to his wife and all his family. As has already been mentioned, one group of people who will always be grateful to Charlie Bird is the Stardust families, for his relentless commitment to their campaign for justice. I am sure, as they await the outcome of...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the programme for Government. [10619/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am putting up my hand.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I had a question.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Other Deputies who did not table questions have spoken. Can I not-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Having submitted a question, seriously?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The grouping was not over-----
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is just out of order.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Programme for Government (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: You are out of order.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Offices (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There was an announcement today about the opening of the mother and baby redress scheme arising from the legislation around that scheme. There is widespread anger among people who went through the mother and baby institutions over the arbitrary six-month rule and exclusions from the redress scheme. I have never heard an answer from the Minister or the Government as to that arbitrary...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach for a report on his joint correspondence, along with the Spanish Prime Minister, to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the situation in Gaza. [10615/24]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (20 Mar 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach rejected our call, and the call of huge numbers of people across the world, to boycott Joe Biden because of his complicity with the genocidal massacre that Israel is committing and the fact that he has armed Israel to the teeth and enabled it to commit that massacre. Did the Taoiseach ask him to stop arming Israel? Mary Robinson echoed the calls of millions of people...