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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is an interesting perspective.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I ask another question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: May I just ask one more question about the housing PPPs? I did not know we had some of them in our area until someone brought it to my attention lately. What is the deal with them? Do they manage them once they build them? Do the private companies which are involved in the partnership build them and then hand them back after 25 years, or whatever, or do they-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They maintain them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Private Partnerships: Discussion (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank an Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could Professor McMahon say that again?

Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Referral to Select Committee (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to make a point of order.

Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Referral to Select Committee (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This motion relates to the European Defence Agency and the involvement of Irish troops with PESCO. Some of us believe this represents a very serious threat to Ireland's neutrality. It is being referred to the committee, which would be normal but do we have a commitment that when the committee has considered this, it will be sent back to the Dáil and there will be a debate on it? If...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [26276/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The marine protected areas legislation has been on the priority legislation list for 20 months and it still has not even been published. The Minister of State, Deputy Malcolm Noonan, was asked about this in January of this year and he said it would be published in the first quarter. It still has not been published. Ireland has the lowest proportion of its marine environment protected of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet again. [25447/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Along the same lines, we still have a devastating housing crisis with multiple facets to it. One of these is the cliff edge of thresholds when it comes to social housing income thresholds, where people find themselves threatened with the possibility of homelessness through no fault of their own but then discover they have now gone over the threshold in this regard, even though they may have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The rest are kids and the parents are dependent on social welfare. They are all homeless now. After 15 years on the list they are over the threshold for social housing. Nothing is available for them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of their daughters is working in our hospitals looking after our sick. They are all homeless and not eligible for social housing or HAP. It is crazy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent engagement with the Palestinian state's representative to Ireland. [26277/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is and was a welcome step, belatedly, to recognise the Palestinian state. If it is not going to be more than hollow symbolism something has to follow that assists the Palestinian people in liberating themselves from a regime that is capable of committing what the International Court of Justice believes is a plausible genocide and which most reasonable people think is a genocide. Any...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is currently departing the Chamber-----

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and I am sorry that I did not get a chance to challenge his countermotion directly with him. I must first thank Sinn Féin for tabling this important motion on energy costs. We are happy to support the measures in it, such as beefing up the CRU to try to address the high cost of energy in this country. However, we would go further, and we think we need caps. We tabled a Bill at...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A number of years ago, we passed a referendum to put children first, but when one listens to the testimonies of the school principals who were in Leinster House last week or of the parents, teachers and SNAs who attended our recent meetings on special education, what they describe is a dire crisis in our schools and the Government's complete failure to adequately resource, staff and fund...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Barry. The Taoiseach said the nominations of Deputies McGrath and Chambers to their new posts were about policies and not personalities. I agree, so I will focus on policy and not personality. First, it is extremely worrying that the discourse around Deputy McGrath's nomination to the European Commission is focused on the horse-trading going on in terms of...