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Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At the outset, let me thank former judge, Mr. Justice Bernard Barton, for giving me a briefing on this issue some time ago and apologise to him - he is probably watching - that I have not been able to get back to him in the past two days. It has been a bit manic in advance of this debate. However, I am cognisant of his strong views on this Bill and I agree with them and with the concerns...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The efforts and programmes the Minister of State spoke about might make some difference. I wish that, instead of me, the parents and teachers of the children in question were here responding to what she said. They are the ones who know how the system is failing their children, despite all the efforts, promises and programmes from the Government. Like Deputy Gino Kenny said, the debates on...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One hundred and ten thousand.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she intends to extend the basic income for artists and art workers; if so, to provide a costing for such a measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37006/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has had any discussions with the Minister for Finance in advance of Budget 2025 in relation to ensuring that continued and increased financial support for the film and audio visual industries is more strictly conditioned on the provision of security of employment for film crew, the full vindication of employment rights and...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 26. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the changes she is proposing following the film industry stakeholder forum earlier this year, particularly in relation to secure and quality employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she intends to further increase funding to the arts, culture and sports to bring this funding in line with EU averages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that the tenant-in-situ and cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes are a demand-led programme, and that any house that can be purchased by a county council to avoid homelessness is purchased in a timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37003/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 83. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is proposing to increase the social housing income eligibility thresholds, and the problem of people being removed from the list after many years waiting due to their income going slightly over the threshold, and that when people who do go over these thresholds, they are no longer eligible for any housing support,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in the aftermath of the Housing Commission report, he agrees that housing output should increase to 60,000 new homes per year to address future housing need and the current housing deficit; whether he agrees, given the chronic deficit of social and affordable housing, that at least 50% of this output should be social and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take measures to accelerate the processing time of housing applications and disability or medical information forms; if he will address the issue of frequent refusals of medical priority and need, despite overwhelming medical and welfare evidence to the contrary that priority is required and that particular...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to ensure that the affordable to purchase housing at Shanganagh, and on all other publicly provided affordable housing schemes, will be genuinely affordable for those on average incomes. [36999/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to set up community bus services during the day, to offer school bus drivers more paid hours during the day in order to alleviate the shortage of school bus drivers available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37104/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions he has had, or is planning, with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in light of the Government acknowledgement, and the recent ESRI report, on the need to significantly increase housing delivery targets over the coming years, and the public expenditure implications of such a revision; and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the oldest tricks in the book of a cynical government under pressure is the tactic of divide and conquer, and scapegoating innocent people for that government's own failing. That is what we heard from the Taoiseach, Simon Harris, over the weekend, when he essentially hung a target on the backs of asylum seekers, people exiting direct provision and immigrants generally by suggesting-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----that they were responsible for the housing crisis.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has echoed the scapegoating.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No. The Taoiseach used language that was dangerous.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach used dangerous language.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach used dangerous and dishonest language, suggesting things that are simply not true about asylum seekers and people exiting direct provision, when it is the Government which has exacerbated the homelessness crisis by lifting the no-fault eviction ban and by failing to address the deficit in social and affordable housing. Why does the Minister not ask the Taoiseach to stop...