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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses. I apologise because I have to leave but this has been a great session. I thank the them for their contributions.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have major concerns about the vaccination passports for the reopening of hospitality being discriminatory and unethical and about young people working in the hospitality sector potentially being put in the position of risking their health. These are serious matters. In that context, the idea that the legislation is going to be rammed through in one day, when it has such serious...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the workers?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle, the Taoiseach did not respond to the point about the property tax.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit of his Department. [37713/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The unit is supposed to assist in giving legislative effect to programme for Government plans. One of the aspects of the programme for Government the Taoiseach has repeatedly stressed is that he would support those sectors that have been impacted particularly harshly by public health measures. One of the sectors that I have mentioned many times is that comprising musicians, live performers,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the Covid-19 oversight group chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [37714/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very strongly of the view that the vaccination programme is the key to getting us out of this grim pandemic and reopening society. In that context, I believe the legislation the Government is pushing through is damaging and divisive. It is a gift to those who are anti-vaccination. Even civil liberties groups, such as the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, ICCL, have warned that it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Delay it until people are vaccinated.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The view of People Before Profit, as the Minister knows well, is that the property tax is an unjust, regressive and unfair tax on the family homes of large numbers of working people who have struggled to purchase a home and then have this tax imposed on them. This tax takes no account whatever of their income and their ability to pay. When it was introduced, and contrary to some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 49. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a detailed update on the discussions with a group (details supplied) with regard to the ownership and management of the new national maternity hospital; if he has considered any other sites for this hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37722/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 372. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has entered into an international agreement with the United Kingdom that allows the British Royal Air Force to enter Irish airspace and carry out military operations within Irish sovereign airspace and over the territory of the Republic of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37232/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 489. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the services currently available for those who have hearing loss in particular but not exclusively, access to hearing aids and lip reading services; if there is a cost implication for the service user; the planned expansion of services for those with hearing loss; if he will address the lack of lip reader tutor...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1199 of 15 June 2021, if the establishment of native woodlands on Bord na Móna bog will be included in the climate action afforestation targets of 8,000 hectares annually; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37236/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1200 of 15 June 2021, if Coillte felling licence requirements for 2021 were prioritised over private licences applications awaiting decisions from his Department since 2016, 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37237/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is facing an autumn of discontent in this country when it comes to his failure and that of successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments to address the housing crisis we face. This morning, the Raise the Roof coalition met to discuss dates for a major demonstration before the budget. The national housing and homelessness coalition has already set a date for a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The misguided and ill-fated Rebuilding Ireland programme to solve the housing crisis put forward by Fine Gael and Labour projected 87,000 HAP, RAS and leasing tenancies. It was a disastrous plan which has left us reliant on vulture funds and so on to deliver housing. Of course, they have not delivered. That is not their job. Their job is to make money and charge extortionate rents. That...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not just us. The ESRI is saying it now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop building hotels.