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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my area, the average rent is €2,500 a month. A person will require €30,000 a year in after-tax income to pay the average rent. That is pretty much 100% of all of the after-tax income of the average worker. It is completely unsustainable. How do we address that completely unsustainable and unaffordable rental situation? Things are worse in my part of Dublin. In most...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a quick supplementary question. I know Mr. Hall probably wants to come in. Mr. Kennedy has said what he has said, and it is a point to which Deputy Healy-Rae alluded. I often hear that mantra. I ask Mr. Kennedy to respond to the following. I challenge whether in practice, rather than in economic theory, an increase in supply brings down price. The obvious example is the Celtic...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 50. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of reports of human rights abuses in Balochistan, Pakistan; if he has taken the matter up with the Government of Pakistan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1863/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to ensure Ireland’s commitments under the political declaration regarding the use of explosive weapons in populated areas are being vindicated in relation to the ongoing bombardment by Israel of Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on earth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason people with low energy usage between July 2022 and June 2023 are being penalised by ineligibility for the electricity credit, as many of these people are on low incomes and are desperately in need of the credits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1645/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is aware of reports that the EPA and SEAI are only including Dublin Airport’s on-site operating emissions in their reports, that this would not include emissions driven by its core business (aviation) or any associated road traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1659/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 351. To ask the Minister for Finance to investigate reports that performing loans with AIB are being transferred to debt collectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1155/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 361. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme will be extended to previous home owners who can demonstrate a housing need which they cannot meet for reasons of breakdown of a relationship, insolvency and so on or whether there is any other scheme available to help with a purchase deposit for this cohort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1550/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 430. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what recourse an employee has when the regulations on the right to sit in SI. No. 358/1995 are not being adhered to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57322/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 815. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 6 July 2023, whether the statistical data referred to in relation to the tenant-in-situ scheme has been published yet; if not, when it will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1340/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to remedy the adverse effects made to households by vegetation from public and private lands, including the obstruction of natural light; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56639/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Undefined (17 Jan 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1093. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1371/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Christmas should a time of joy, but for huge numbers of people it is a time of extreme financial pressure and hardship. James, who has worked all his life, had to go on a jobseeker's payment because of an injury that left him unable to do his old job. He went onto the back to education allowance. He has a wife and three children and because the Government has excluded people who have been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----for those one-off payments and fuel allowances-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and additional payments to be extended to the people in those categories.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about these groups?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it will not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why have they been left out?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are being left out unfairly.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Dec 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 419. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 771 of 20 September 2023, if he will now provide the details requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55895/23]