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- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am deadly serious about the forestry sector because it has significant potential, which has not been taken seriously. Despite the significant employment potential it offers, development in forestry is being hampered by European Union state aid rules. Renewable energy is another area with significant potential. I ask Ms King to comment. I fully agree with Ms King on the need for heavy...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Did Ms King express the view that state aid is the key to making this transition and addressing the immediate problem she identified?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Everyone else got a supplementary question. Will the Chairman allow me one?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Outlook, Competitiveness and Labour Market Developments: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have two questions on wage inequality. There was a report today on the gender pay gap widening. It reduced during the recession but that it has widened since is an alarming and disappointing sign. Do the witnesses have comments on that? Due to the cuts imposed during the austerity period, pay equality is at the heart of the teachers’ dispute. Nurses and various other people,...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Tesco is breaking the law.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the law?
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The law is the law.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will take up the debate from where we left it last night.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said last night, any improvement in the rights of people with disabilities is welcome. A number of measures in the Bill are to be welcomed. I went through them so I will not repeat them. However, in many other respects, if I may put this as baldly as it deserves to be put, the Bill is an insult to people affected by disability. People have waited unnecessarily for ten years...
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Do not forget about DART stations.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister needs to allocate more than 10%.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether his plans to deliver social housing via the private sector are adequate in view of the increasing numbers of those in homeless services and those awaiting housing; his further views on whether they will result in homeless figures reducing and secure tenancies being provided for those awaiting...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The lamentable saga of the Government's failure to deal with the escalating housing and homelessness emergency continues. I put it to the Minister that his housing proposals, figures and plans are, at best, a mirage and, at worst, entirely bogus. They are based overwhelmingly on dependence on a private sector incapable of delivering, in the new lingo, "housing solutions".
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael has not been in government for one year, but for six years. During the past two weeks, it has broken three records, namely, the highest number of homeless people, even with a child becoming homeless every five hours, the highest rent increase since daft.iestarted keeping records, and the lowest number of council houses delivered in any one year. In his document, the Minister...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: HAP and RAS are not housing solutions. They are not secure.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: RAS is slightly more secure than HAP. Laurie, who is severely disabled, and Fergus have been in three of these tenancies during the past two years. They have been bumped from pillar to post, given that the landlord can pull out any time.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Gemma is on her second RAS tenancy and will be evicted in August. How many more housing solutions will she have? All of those are counted as housing solutions. We have double counting. The Minister's proposal up to 2021 is to have 65,000 HAP tenancies, all private sector, 5,000 RAS and approximately 23,000 leasing solutions, none of them secure. They will make a lot of money for the...
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have heard that story for six years.
- Other Questions: Homelessness Strategy (23 Feb 2017)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Putting an adaption onto a unit is not building a new house.