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Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in national economic recovery plan. [33399/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are several hundred musicians and performers outside the Dáil as we speak who have come here to protest about the abysmal failure of the Government to engage with them about a roadmap back to work, clarity as to when they can get back to work and their concern about the plans to essentially make them jobseekers. As I previously told the Taoiseach, the cliff edge for them is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are they outside Leinster House?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [33400/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to push the issue of Dublin Bay up the agenda of the Cabinet environment committee. Dublin Bay is a UNESCO biosphere and a place where fishermen-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I should have said "fishers". It is a place where fishers make a living in what is left of the decimated fishing industry. Critically, it is a precious public amenity where huge numbers of people swim. We have a major capacity problem with the Ringsend waste water treatment plant, which will not be dealt with until 2025. In the meantime, there are discharges of untreated sewage...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first issue I want to raise related to tenancies and tenants relates specifically to the pandemic. I found this out in the past few minutes and would like the Minister to do something about it urgently. Somebody who I know personally has just found himself homeless. He lives in Dún Laoghaire. He has been told that the only accommodation available is to share with five other...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am putting it on the public record because I really want that not to be the case.

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would really appreciate it that the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council or whoever needs to be contacted, is contacted as a matter of urgency and told that a cocooning place must be made available for such people. They cannot be put somewhere where their health will be put at risk. They are not vaccinated yet and so on. They got a doctor's...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “ “Act of 2020” means Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020;”. Before I speak directly to the amendments, I wish to say publicly that I raised with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, earlier today an issue relating to a person who is homeless and...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear that these amendments are in order. I was pleasantly surprised that they were found to be so, but the fact is they were and, as such, I do not really accept the Minister's response. It is tricky for us to bring forward amendments to this type of legislation without finding ourselves out of order. There is a difficulty in trying to do things that were not directly envisaged...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will support the amendment before us, in particular, along with the other amendments in the grouping. It covers some of the ground we sought to cover in our amendments Nos. 14 and 15. It seems the Minister does not really want to answer the question that is being asked about these tenants. I never used the word "tsunami", by the way, although I acknowledge it has been bandied about a...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those tenants deserve protection now because that is a ruthless logic. This is not the mom-and-pop landlord often referred to as a justification for the lack of protections; this is cold, ruthless, profit-driven logic. These people have no intention of being landlords to tenants. They have one intention and one intention only, that is, to make profit by putting people out in the street. ...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 14: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Amendment of Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 12.Section 5 of the Act of 2020 is amended to read: “5. (1) All Notices of Termination of tenancy which fall to be served during or after the enactment of this Act are hereby deemed invalid and no notice of...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Amendment of Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 12.Section 6 of the Act of 2020 is amended by inserting new paragraph after paragraph (b): “and (c) any rent increases that could have legitimately been served during or after the enactment of this Act can...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: "Reports 12.(1) That the Minister will, within 6 weeks of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the numbers of people who have been evicted since the beginning of the emergency period. (2) That the Minister will, within 6 weeks of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the numbers of people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 276. To ask the Minister for Health if it may not be possible to carry out complete foetal anomaly scans in University Hospital Galway’s maternity services due to Covid 19 restrictions, the implications for foetal health care and maternal health care if such a critical scan is not being completed for pregnant patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26062/21]

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was it?