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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What type of risky venture?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, these approved housing bodies could be set up on the basis of making money for shareholders in dividends.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They have to be not-for-profit.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the things that even the approved housing bodies have said themselves is in the shift to source more social housing from that sector than has traditionally been the case, they are just not resourced to manage the problems that can come with a much bigger social housing stock, in terms of dealing with tenants' concerns, maintenance issues, anti-social issues and complaints, which are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Bill 2015: Discussion (8 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a very close connection between the housing list that local authorities have and people being housed from that list in approved housing bodies and a rent scheme which is similar. Will this relationship be fully maintained?
- Estimates for Public Services 2015 (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: These Supplementary Estimates are a belated recognition, prompted by a looming general election, that one of the major slogans deployed by the Government in its first years in office was completely bogus. I do not know if the Minister remembers the slogan that we would get more for less but it was repeated ad nauseamwhen the Government was inflicting the most savage and cruel cuts in vital...
- Estimates for Public Services 2015 (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I referred to underinvestment. In recent years, we argued that the Government could get the money to obviate the need for cuts from a number of sources, including the corporate sector through corporation tax. What we proposed was dismissed as rubbish and it was said that it would threaten our national economy. We could not say "boo" to the multinationals. It was only because a small number...
- Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not surprised but I was completely nauseated by the "RTE Investigates" special on corruption. It was quite stunning to see a Fianna Fáil councillor, a Fine Gael councillor and a pro-business Independent involved in the sort of grubby corruption - there is no other word for it - that they were attempting to engage in. It is worth remembering the cost of this for society. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I absolutely support this motion. The el-Sisi regime is instituting a reign of terror against its own citizens and anybody who is involved in even the mildest form of opposition political activity. It is a sham. These are show trials and have nothing to do with anything one could describe as proper legal process. If we leave Ibrahim to be the subject of a show trial in a sham legal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I mean formally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I believe a public hearing at this committee would assist the work of our people in Cairo and that of any representatives.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It would assist them. The only thing that will move the el-Sisi regime is pressure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Dr. Sabella for his presentation, which I very much appreciate. As always, I also thank Mr. Abdelrazek. In the case of Khalida Jarrar, one thing the joint committee, as fellow parliamentarians, should do is make representations to the Israelis, making clear that it is outrageous and disgraceful that a person has been imprisoned for no other reason than her political views. Then...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to ask a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a very short question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a short question. Some agencies of the United Nations recently severed their relationship with a security firm, G4S, because of its activities in the West Bank, for example, in manning checkpoints. Does Dr. Sabella know anything about this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I was asking Dr. Sabella.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (9 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It does.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (10 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his role in the recent climate change conference in Paris in France; his views on the comments by the Taoiseach at the conference that the European Commission's climate targets for 2020 for Ireland were unrealistic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44255/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Climate Change Negotiations (10 Dec 2015)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Paris climate summit is attempting to prevent climate chaos as a result of global warming. Many people were very disappointed by the Taoiseach's comments to the effect that Ireland's emissions targets for agriculture were unrealistic and are fearful that the Irish Government is not serious about addressing the urgent threat to this country and to the globe.