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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I ask Dr. McDonnell a question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could I not ask my question?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does Dr. McDonnell believe, as he implied earlier, that house prices would fall if we ramped up supply, per se, to more than 40,000 units a year?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Policy and Budgetary Planning: Discussion (19 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is nice to have the witnesses to myself. I thank them for their contributions. I strongly agree with them on some of the points they made and disagree with them on others. I fully agree on using the surprise corporate tax receipts to fund key strategic areas of infrastructure and diversify the economy. The witnesses may be surprised to learn that this approach would be the thrust of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The abysmal failure of the Government's housing policy is well known and acknowledged at this stage. There are 100,000 households on the housing lists, some waiting a decade or more. There are extortionate rents in Dublin running at an average of €1,600 per month, which means someone would need to be able to spend more than €18,000 a year on rent to afford that. House prices...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In Berlin, there is a five-year temporary emergency freeze until the problem is resolved. There is no reason we could not do that and it would not necessarily drive people out of the market. It would be temporary and would recognise the emergency. On the issue of housing lists, let us be clear. If the numbers on housing assistance payment, HAP, and rental accommodation scheme, RAS,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why is the Government sabotaging and subverting the democratic and legislative process through the use of money messages on Bills that do not involve any levying of taxes, which we are not allowed to do, or spending of money? It is abusing the money message on a whole series of Bills - in fact, it is 55 Bills at the moment. In our case, a Bill passed twice through the Dáil to give...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They lobbied for it.

Special Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Appointment of Members (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Did the Ceann Comhairle say Gina Kenny?

Special Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Appointment of Members (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent engagements with the National Economic and Social Council. [26621/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also wish to speak about the NESC report on public transport. The Government's climate plan is pathetic when it comes to public transport. We need public transport anyway to deal with dire congestion. On many important bus routes, students and workers just cannot get on buses in the morning. In the context of a climate change emergency, the Government is doing nothing in response to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not happening.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when Cabinet committee B, social policy and public services, last met. [26622/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has claimed it is supportive of a mix of social and non-social housing. A mix of people with different family sizes and in different income brackets is a reasonable aspiration although the net effect has been to, effectively, prevent large-scale social and affordable housing developments on public land because they are tied up with convoluted formulas around social housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We would have no problem submitting our plans.

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The €700 million that according to this statement is available for additional expenditure in the coming budget is just not enough. The issue of the likely cost overruns in health has been pointed out. The Minister has questions to answer. The Christmas bonus was raised by Mr. Colm McCarthy at the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. We must also consider the possibility of a hard...

Summer Economic Statement 2019: Statements (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That leads on to the point I was making and the question for the Minister to answer. Given the possibility of a disorderly Brexit, uncertainties in other areas, the demands and requirements for public spending on a whole range of areas - I will not list them - is €700 million really enough? If, as I would suggest, it would be far preferable to have much more - I do not think anybody...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (25 Jun 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detail of the plans for a permanent site for Dún Laoghaire Educate Together; the timeframe for the site; the rationale for developing a temporary site for three years when a permanent site is due to be announced in Autumn 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26628/19]