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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ministers for their engagement with the committee. One of the new challenges we are facing is that of labour shortages, which are posing difficulties for our ability to deliver a lot of the housing, other infrastructure and services we need. Everybody is looking for workers at the moment. The argument the Ministers are making is that we cannot just allocate loads of money to do...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not go over that chestnut.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a matter of interest, does the Minister have the figures when the one-off payments are stripped from the calculation?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the workers who create the wealth. There is no contradiction.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2023: Discussion (12 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Have we not learned that lesson from RTÉ?

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is disappointing that the Minister has to go-----

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----because this is our last chance before quite a long break to appeal to the Government to step up its game and to respond to a housing and homelessness emergency that is continuing to get worse. I hope the officials and the Minister of State will listen although, realistically, I do not expect them to admit that their policies are failing or to take on board the full package of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (11 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will detail the salaries of the top ten highest paid civil servants in his Department. [34007/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Thursday the Dáil debated the report produced by the Committee on Budgetary Oversight on the section 481 film tax credit and issues in the film industry. This was the second committee in a number of years to recommend there would be a stakeholder forum to address very serious issues that echo in a very serious way the things that have happened recently in RTÉ. There are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the social dialogue unit of his Department. [32549/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is an emergency.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a tiny amount.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Promises of things in the future are cold comfort to families who are homeless now with their children, in many cases for several years, or those threatened with homelessness immediately. This week a woman who came to my office was bawling crying because she felt she had let down her daughter. She is working, by the way, as are many who are homeless or threatened with homelessness. The...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Two and a half years and four years.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no complicated story.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the case.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the reasons whoever is responsible for the scandal of RTÉ overpayments should be ashamed of themselves is because for three or four weeks now it has sucked all the air out of every other issue affecting ordinary people, who often struggle with intense hardship and difficulty in their lives. Before the Dáil finishes for the summer recess at the end of this week, one of the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and addresses the anomalies in the tenant in situscheme to prevent more families being made homeless over the summer.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Much of this has been intense for everybody and I understand that seven hours of this is difficult. Our job is to recognise that the people who are the biggest victims are the TV licence payers and the other RTÉ staff who have been affected by this and were required to take substantial pay cuts. It is our job to ask these questions. I just want to make that clear. At the heart of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, sorry-----