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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider the creation of a State construction company to directly build both social and affordable housing and to accelerate the retrofitting of local authority housing stock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33204/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I argue here that we need a State construction company. I think even the Minister of State would acknowledge that the delivery of social and affordable housing is less than the Government had hoped for. It has not met its own targets, and when you look at what has been built by the private sector, average prices in Dublin are now €498,000. In my area they are €610,000. If we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope we can move off the script now to have a real conversation. Of the 30,000 homes delivered, 7,000 of those were social housing, including approved housing bodies, AHBs. However, 73% of those were bought or leased. In other words, what the State is actually delivering on a not-for-profit basis is a tiny proportion. The councils only built 1,680 houses. Some 8,000 were build-to-rent,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: More than 12,500 people are homeless. I am telling the Minister of State, and he can deny it all he likes, but for working people it is currently not affordable to rent or buy. It is just not affordable. I am dealing with a family, which I might address in another question. The father works in a semi-State company. He is on a decent salary. They are going to be homeless because they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is nothing to disagree with. It is a fact.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the progress of the tenant-in-situ and the cost-rental tenant-in-situ schemes, including a timeline on bringing in legislation to ensure that the tenant or local authority have first refusal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33205/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to report on the local authority housing stock retrofitting programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33206/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make changes to the HAP scheme so that there is not a cliff edge if people go over the social housing income limits to ensure that there is tapered rental support for those above the limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33208/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 87. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for the full details of the affordability measures put in place in Cherrywood developments in return for the LIHAF funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33207/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what changes he intends to make to the cost-rental rules so that those eligible on income grounds are not ineligible on affordability grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33209/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the NESC. [32542/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [32541/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we extend the the time for the grouping? The next one is short.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If someone on the social housing list who is facing eviction gets the housing assistance payment, HAP, it is nearly impossible to find accommodation. If someone is over the threshold for social housing, however, they are absolutely goosed because they do not get HAP and cost rental is for the most part unavailable, so they are trapped. I am dealing with a working mother and her child who...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say anything.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is simply no justification for a small number of people at the top to get salaries that are multiples of what the ordinary journalists, crew and workers in RTÉ get. This notion of "the talent" implied a sort of hierarchy. The truth is, to make a show, it is not just a contractor or highly-paid presenter that is needed. Sound people, researchers, a producer and all sorts of...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The situation at RTÉ is an unholy mess and a scandal that has done extraordinary damage to the vital institution of public service broadcasting in this country. It involves secret payments mislabelled as consultancy; an organised deception of the public, the Dáil and the workers in RTÉ; a barter account that looks like a slush fund, and then three barter accounts that may look...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the committee for allowing me to come in on the discussion. I thank the ARC and all our contributors. I have some questions that may be a bit more detailed, but I have a couple of initial general questions and observations. First, the victims of this mess, and it is a mess, are the TV licence-paying public, who can go to jail if they do not pay their TV licence, and the vast...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am firmly of the view, and the witnesses are alluding to it, that where commercial and advertising are concerned, there is a tension between them and the public service mandate. I will go further than the witnesses may be willing to - if they want to comment on it, please do - and say that it is a malign influence that seriously threatens to undermine the integrity of public service...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Would Mr. Lynch also say that the quid pro quofor the funding that could restore the integrity of public service broadcasting and deal with the tension by eliminating it, which is what needs to happen, is to address the other matter that does not sit well with people and is infuriating them in all of this, namely, the staggeringly high salary levels of an ultimately small, but fairly...