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Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about emergency legislation to deal with sublets?

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where is the legislation and, more important, the policy action to reduce rents to affordable levels and to provide affordable accommodation to those who need it?

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People are paying rents, like Tara Nic Chormaic, the nurse who wrote an open letter about how she cries at the end of a 39-hour week because she has €6 left after she pays her rent. That is how people are paying while others cannot even get these properties. I am proposing as an absolute minimum a complete rent freeze. A 4% increase on an unaffordable rent of €1,900 or...

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We need to stop rent increases, bring rents down to affordable levels and stop vulture funds sitting on empty properties. As I told the Minister earlier this week, Cerberus is sitting on 27 empty properties in Sandyford while Apollo Global Management is sitting on empty properties in Dún Laoghaire. Nothing is being done about this. These speculators are dictating what is going on in...

Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said at a minimum a rent freeze and affordable square meterage.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I too am very glad to offer my condolences to Susan and all of Peter's family on his passing. I pay tribute to him as a public representative, a Deputy and somebody I got to know quite well in my time here. I had heard about Peter Mathews before I met him. I remember receiving a telephone call before either of us was elected when I was told there was a fellow called Peter Mathews who had...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know if he had to do so in the end, but he was absolutely determined to go. He was particularly incensed in his very pleasant way that the German budget committee got to see our budget before we did. He wanted to take up the issue and did so very passionately with the budget scrutiny and finance committee of the Bundestag. As others mentioned, he was constantly referring to...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee E (health) will next meet. [13944/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are 526 people on trolleys today. As was mentioned, we have had up to and more than 700 people on trolleys on certain days. Having more than 500 people on trolleys on a daily basis is becoming the new norm, which is shocking. St. Vincent's Hospital ran out of trolleys this week. People had to be accommodated on seats because they could not even get a trolley. That is how bad it is....

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a secret.

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: More than 100 years ago James Joyce, in his novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, described how a priest, Fr. Arnall, gave lectures to schoolchildren about the evils of the flesh and how they would suffer hellfire and damnation if they in any way gave into feelings of sexuality or even acknowledged it. In that chapter he brilliantly counterposed the denial of sexuality enforced by...

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but it does not think it should be legislated for. The party has no problem whatever in legislating to allow the church to discriminate in the Equal Status Acts or specifically allow the particular religious ethos of schools to be rammed down the throats of young people. That seems to be allowed by Fianna Fáil, but we cannot insert a requirement in urgently needed legislation to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Sale (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 61. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if reports that €7 million of debt was written off by the State in the sale of the State's stake in a studio (details supplied) and that the sale price was €6 million are correct; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16803/18]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was debating whether I would comment-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----partly because this debate seems like a box ticking exercise and people seem to think it is enough to simply mention all of the risks. From what the Minister has said the policy seems to be to keep the ship steady and everything will be all right. I did not get that sense from reading the risk assessments. He has identified three risks as highly likely to happen in housing; changes in...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Aside from the madness of that politically, does the Minister not see the contradiction economically? Unless we address the distribution of wealth, which can only be addressed by breaking from the policy of low taxation on corporations and wealth, in the hope of spurring-----

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have made my point and I am interested in hearing the Minister's response. The contradiction I have raised is central to this matter. Will the Minister provide figures on productivity? Will he comment on the fact, not unlike the figures for GDP, Ireland's productivity figures are completely meaningless because they are grossly distorted by transfer pricing?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (18 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one brief supplementary question.

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sharing time with Deputy Gino Kenny, with seven minutes for me and three for him.

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are having this debate because I requested it at the Business Committee a few weeks ago. I thank the other parties on the committee and the Ceann Comhairle for agreeing. My request was prompted by the fact that the Sick of Plastic campaign's day of action is this Saturday and I was keen that the House would debate the matter before that positive initiative, which will involve many...