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- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not be opposing the Bill, at least at this Stage, because we want to see affordable housing as a matter of urgency. We will undoubtedly introduce amendments on the next Stage and will try to be constructive. We supported the Residential Tenancies Bill even though it was incredibly limited and did not go half far enough. We did not block that legislation. We sought to amend it but...
- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the costs.
- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the costs.
- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It means that a person will be paying higher rent even though his or her income is the same as other people. That is not fair. I mention the fact that the Minister or previous Governments have not raised the income thresholds. I laughed at the Minister's response to a Topical Issue matter tabled by Deputy Ó Laoghaire the other day, in which the Minister announced the income threshold...
- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. Let us hope it is gone but it appears again here.
- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough. My office told me there was no change.
- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It might have. We need a mole in the Minister's Department.
- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We absolutely need a mole in the Minister's Department. The phrase "undue segregation" appears here again, as if there is a due or acceptable level of segregation. There is not. Why does it appear? I will tell the Minister why it appears. It is because thede factopragmatic solution is actually about new forms of segregation, and new forms of classification of cohorts of people, who will...
- Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister had 20 minutes and there are five Fine Gael speakers.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further measures he will take to address unaffordable rents, excessive rent increases and unfair evictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33884/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action Ireland plans to take against Israel following the continued bombardment of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33911/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that will still be given to the councils that were previously in receipt of moneys from the equalisation fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31407/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (24 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the high level of current expenditure in his Department via the housing assistance payment, the rental accommodation scheme and leasing needs to be replaced by capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31411/21]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This section really gets to the heart of what is wrong with the Bill and the Government's whole conception of the LDA. It is the dirty little secret behind the Land Development Agency. The agency should be about gathering up land that is being sat on by private developers and speculators, or land being held by Departments or State agencies other than local authorities, and ensuring that...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am pointing out that the LDA is part 2 of the disastrous policy pursued with NAMA. It is exactly the same policy and will have exactly the same disastrous consequences at a time when we should be moving in precisely the opposite direction. Shanganagh Castle is proof positive of that. If the Government had simply provided the local authority, which had signalled its desire to build...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have basically made the point but I just-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry Chairman, stop interrupting me.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not interrupt anybody else so stop interrupting me.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes. I am just concluding on the point that this is the critical section that gives away what is wrong with this Bill. There is simply no justification from the point of view of finance, as has been confirmed to us by the ESRI, and there is no justification on the basis of efficient delivery of public and affordable housing because doing it in this precise way has led to chronic delays on...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to speak to the section. I have an amendment on deleting the section.