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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [41208/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government also speaks about developing the arts and culture sector. I will return to the points I made earlier so that the Taoiseach will fully understand them. I appreciate that he said he would look into them. Sometimes, I think there is a lack of understanding of what goes on in the arts, culture and film sector because of the magic and dazzle of film. However,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with culture, arts and the audiovisual sector will next meet. [32551/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with social protection will next meet. [41218/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For years now, at the request of film crews in the Irish film industry, I have been raising the systematic abuse of fixed-term contracts by film production companies in receipt of public money. In practice, they leave workers wide open to blacklisting if they do not toe the line. I have also been raising the campaign of Irish Equity, including the performers, writers, directors and so on,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In February, the Dáil passed the People Before Profit Eviction Ban Bill 2022, which would reinstate an emergency ban on no-fault evictions for the duration of the housing and homelessness emergency. Tomorrow, during our Private Members' time, we will ask that the Dáil expedite that Bill. Whatever the Taoiseach may have said back in February during the debate or since or to justify...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (26 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the rationale for changing the requirements and procedures for visas for those from Bolivia; the reason for the short notice of same; what measures she intends to put in place to facilitate those who had already booked flights and made plans under the old rules; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41473/23]

Affordable Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is utterly shameful that 12,800 people, including 3,800 children, are in emergency accommodation. This is getting worse because of the Government's decision to lift the no-fault eviction ban. We urge the Government to urgently reinstate that ban. We will have a motion before the Dáil next Wednesday to seek the expediting of People Before Profit's Eviction Ban Bill 2022, which has...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Bill is better than nothing but it is too little and too late to address the cost-of-living misery and the energy poverty that has been inflicted on huge swathes of our population since the cost-of-living crisis took off. I believe it was People Before Profit that put the first cost-of-living motion to the Dáil at the outset of the crisis in October 2021, which looked for measures...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raise another egregious example of problems with school transport. Since the end of August, I have been in communication with parents and the association of parents with children who have disabilities and wheelchair users in Sandymount. They were informed a few days before the resumption of classes that instead of the 11 buses needed to get all the children to school, there are only...

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Doherty and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion on mortgage interest hikes that are inflicting extraordinary hardship and suffering on tens and tens of thousands of homeowners and mortgage holders who are being crippled with these ten hikes over a short period of time. This has put many of them into a completely unsustainable situation about which the Government...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses from IFAC for their contribution and work. They are making pretty much the same arguments as the Central Bank, representatives of which we were talking to earlier in front of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, and I think all the economists are looking at the same general picture. I accept they will not go into their views on...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree. We are very prudential in that regard. We think we should raise additional taxes on wealth, financial transactions and various other areas to cover what we see as the additional necessary expenditure to protect people from the cost-of-living crisis and to invest in housing, health or whatever. I agree. I would question one comment Professor McMahon made there, which is that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When Professor McMahon is talking about being targeted, is that not part of the problem with the interest rate hikes? They are very untargeted. The policy that is being pursued by the Central Bank and the ECB is to hike interest rates. There is nothing targeted about that, is there? The people who are getting hurt by it are often those who can least afford it. It might be cooling the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is Mr. Makhlouf saying that banks trying to outdo one another with reckless lending was not a contributory factor?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will agree to disagree on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think insane competition at every level in the banking sector contributed enormously to banks encouraging people to speculate, for example, on buy-to-let mortgages, including people who should never have got into that. That is one example. There are many others, but we will agree to disagree on that. I will ask about the Central Bank's warning to the Government about not taking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Central Bank (20 Sep 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mr. Madouros was in the middle of responding to a question.