Results 61-80 of 113 for "direct provision" speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna - Questions: North-East Inner City Initiative (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: .... What are the modern versions of that? We must bear in mind the impact that had and how devastating it was. The modern versions of that are children who spend years in homeless accommodation or direct provision and people living in appalling housing conditions. Imagine the resentment that creates and the trauma and damage it does to someone's psyche, and how that will impact on a...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...in. I just thought it would be important to respond to Deputy McAuliffe's point. The point is that we should legislate in line with Government policy. If the new policy of the Government is the direct provision of public housing, as Deputy McAuliffe says, and for 100% public and affordable housing on public land, let us first acknowledge that that is a departure from the initial...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and if we in any way incentivise the same stuff to happen again. This is not a comprehensive answer to it but one thing that would help control and regulate it a little would be if we increased the direct provision of social housing to keep prices from inflating out of all control. I worry about any property-based tax incentives, that we could make all the same mistakes again.

European Council: Statements (21 Mar 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Europe policy and because of the despicable policy, which Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have their fingerprints on, of imprisoning 4,000 people, including 1,500 children, in the abomination that is direct provision. Despite setting up and maintaining that system, which degrades young people, those parties say nothing about it. They fail to criticise Europe's racist Fortress Europe...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (4 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and objectionable sections in the Bill. It goes to the heart of a policy shift which began with a document produced by the Department in either 2011 or 2012. That shift involved a move away from direct provision of council housing to a situation where the provision of social housing was outsourced to landlords. This was slightly glossed over by what is a positive idea, namely, that if a...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (4 Jun 2020)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Floyd lost his life and of which millions of Americans and millions more across the world are victims? Will he match his words against racism by eliminating the racist injustice that is the direct provision system? It is an inhumane and degrading system that marks people of colour out as different, other and separate and, consequently, leads to encouraging that poison and racism....

Social Housing and Homelessness Policy: Statements (12 Mar 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department issued a policy document in July 2012 in which it was stated that direct provision of newly built social housing was being brought to an end and that it would in future rely on leasing arrangements with the private sector. At the same time, rent allowance supports and caps were reduced. I remember the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, promising us in this House...

International Protection Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...they are desperately in need of assistance and refuge. What we should have is a Bill which offers a compassionate, generous and independent system of asylum which does away with the utter scandal of direct provision and gives rights to asylum seekers, particularly to their children, prioritises them, gives them the support they need and gives them the right to work and participate in...

EU Council Decisions on Measures in the Area of International Protection: Motions (1 Oct 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...and provide housing for all, including the refugees coming here and the people on the streets, but we have failed to do it. We have also failed to do it for the refugees who have arrived in this country to date. The direct provision system is a matter of shame for this country. This must be the catalyst for us to put resources into ensuring that everyone who needs a house, be they a...

Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2012)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...on the waiting lists, we would save the State €500 million a year and probably generate another €250 million in rental revenue for the State? Why is the Labour Party abandoning the policy of direct provision of council housing and, effectively, privatising the social housing market to the benefit of private developers and greedy speculators, the very people who bankrupted the country?...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement: Discussion. (20 Jul 2017)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...Government's housing plans, has the Minister any interest in the point that much of Rebuilding Ireland depends on the delivery of HAP, leasing schemes and so on - approximately 75% - rather than the direct provision of social housing? It is under review, but does the Minister for Finance believe it is sensible that, of the 110,000 target of various types of social housing to 2021, the...

Appointment of Members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...not being upheld; of Travellers, whom the State has systematically failed and continues to fail in many areas of equality and human rights; of the failure to secure the rights of refugees living in direct provision centres and of the completely unacceptable hardships imposed particularly on children in direct provision; and of the failure of the Government to deliver on its promise to take...

International Protection Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...seeking asylum, who in many cases have come from the most awful situations possible. While everybody is in favour of shortening the inordinate length of time that people are left languishing in direct provision, a fear has grown as I have tried to get to grips with the Bill. Like other Deputies, I indicated in my Second Stage speech that in the rush to ram this legislation through what...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...regulations." That is, essentially, what the Government is doing and what its strategy involves. The Government opposes, on an ideological basis, large-scale public investment in the direct provision of local authority housing and has submitted itself to the diktat of the troika and the neoliberal ideologues in Europe. Therefore, public investment in the direct provision of local...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jun 2014)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...a firm commitment to reinvest all of the proceeds from tenant purchases back into the provision of social housing and the Government's cries that it does not have the money to engage in large-scale direct provision of council housing, which is necessary - and is what the Minister of State has said she would favour in an ideal world but says we cannot afford - is a recipe for full-scale...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...what has been done to children and shameful that people have had that many years of their lives robbed from them. It is also shameful, for example, that victims of sex trafficking are put into direct provision centres in completely inappropriate circumstances. It is shameful that children do not have money to buy school books. It is also shameful that they do not have access to proper...

Finance Bill 2022: Report Stage (23 Nov 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...let rents or house prices go down. If the Government is labouring under that illusion, it is a mistaken illusion that will not happen. The public sector has to ramp up, on a massive scale, the direct provision of public and social housing. By the way, I supported all those projects and never opposed one of them. What I do oppose is the wasting of human labour building properties...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...issues. They cannot afford childcare but they could potentially be contributing by working and helping us to deal with the skills shortages. The same is true of asylum applicants. Are people going into the direct provision centres and finding out what skills residents have, what they want to do and so on? Is anyone trying to help them to get into the labour force rather than leaving...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Department of Social Protection (18 Nov 2015)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...for a lot longer or simply have not had that opportunity. However, it is obviously a decision for the Government as to whether it will grant such people credits based on how long they had been in direct provision and denied the right to work. Is it possible for the witnesses to provide members with the guidelines the Department gives to community welfare officers in respect of...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (8 May 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...able to. This is something on which they have given evidence on a number of occasions at various committees. While they play an important role, I worry that, in addition to the retreat from the direct provision of housing by local authorities which I perceive and the well discussed and debated over-reliance on the private sector, there is an over-reliance on the AHB sector, which does...