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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----which is what Israel is doing, has the right to perpetrate those crimes. These are crimes against humanity. This is a regime that for decades has denied UN resolutions calling for the right of return of Palestinians, millions of whom have been ethnically cleansed since 1948, and are living in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, cast to the winds of the world. They are denied...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course, he will not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am disappointed with the Taoiseach's remarks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Millions of Palestinians have no rights and no votes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I lived there; I know exactly what it is like.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said that it is not okay for Israel to attack civilians and civilian infrastructure and to threaten to starve the people of Gaza. It most certainly is not okay; it is a war crime. The Israeli Government has brazenly, publicly and openly declared its intention to commit a war crime, and has commenced that war crime against the people of Gaza. It has said it intends to starve...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit will always oppose this measure, which is a fairly significant increase this year, of 75 cent per packet of cigarettes. We do so because, of course, we completely support the view we need to reduce the number of smokers and the number of people who take up smoking and to encourage people to stop smoking. There is absolutely no question as to how bad it is for your...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is seeking to dazzle and fool people with once-off measures but the reality is that poverty, deprivation, financial hardship and inequality are not once-off phenomena. They are systemic, and once-off measures will simply not cut it. Despite the attempts to dazzle people with these once-off measures, the net fact, when you look closely at this budget, is that taking into...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is a year's time.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a complete list of all buildings owned by the State or any of the State agencies across Dún Laoghaire Rathdown; the occupancy rates and status of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43681/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the scale of no-reason evictions being carried out by a corporate landlord (details supplied) in Dublin in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43656/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether he is aware of the scale of no-reason evictions being carried out by other corporate landlords in recent months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43657/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to amend the law to offer protections to people whose pre-June 2022 tenancies are terminated by landlords refusing to offer further part-four tenancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43658/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to allow compulsory purchase of residential properties in circumstances, consistent with section 43.2 of the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43659/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Ahead of next Tuesday's budget, trade unionists, pensioners, students, people with disabilities, housing activists and many more will meet on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Parnell Square to march to Leinster House. They will be marching because they are being absolutely crucified with the cost-of-living crisis and the housing and accommodation crisis. Mortgage holders are paying thousands of euro...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and fund our public services to redistribute the wealth that exists in the country and give it to the many and stop protecting the few who control all that wealth?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What I do not believe is that in one of the wealthiest countries in the world it is acceptable for us to have record numbers of families and, worst of all, children living in homeless accommodation. I do not accept that a whole generation of young people are being crucified with unaffordable rents and can never hope to own their own home. I do not accept that there are now more than 250,000...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Government going to address that inequality? Is it going to use-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the wealth that exists in our society to protect working people-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----pensioners, students and the least well-off from the hammering they are getting from the cost-of-living crisis and address the housing disaster?