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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And the fixed-term workers. Could the Taoiseach try to get me the contacts?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Official Engagements (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the meeting of the European Political Community on 1 June 2023. [29545/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach might not have been aware of this, but the Writers Guild of Ireland have been protesting in solidarity with the Writers Guild of America, whose members have been on strike, essentially over streaming companies and film producers robbing them of their residuals or royalties for the work they do on films, which massively cuts into the income of writers and artists. This echoes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Debenhams, here we go again.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A very good People Before Profit policy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about Ringsend - the swimming?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the swimming?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economy and investment will next meet. [29544/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the first progress report for the first quarter of 2023 of the climate action plan. [29543/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach knows, climate change, among other things, results in extreme weather events. One impact and consequence that is becoming apparent in my area, and in other areas with swimming spots around Dublin Bay, is that when we get these torrential downpours the pumping stations that deal with foul water overflow. The good weather of the past week or so has meant thousands of people...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Members of the Irish Wheelchair Association, IWA, including staff and wheelchair users, were protesting outside today. They may still be there. I strongly urge the Taoiseach to look at its pre-budget submission. All of the wheelchair users I spoke said they feel abandoned and they are not getting the income supports they need to deal with the additional costs of disability, which the...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: When?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will clarify a taxation query (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29979/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Apologies to the witnesses for being late, but I had to speak in the Dáil. I have read the submissions. First of all, I thank Mr. Hall for all his great work and for often being of great assistance to me in difficult cases where people are having mortgage difficulties. Mr. Byrne's account speaks for itself. I assume that the situation for Mr. Byrne and Ms Irwin is not sustainable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If you do not get help, you are in serious trouble. Is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to know what the ask is here. Our view is that the vulture funds should just be given six months to get out of Ireland completely. They should be forced to transfer their loans to the banks and interest rates should be capped at 3%. That is our policy. I would be interested to hear the responses of Mr. Byrne or Ms Irwin on this. When we put it to the Government, as we have done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about our suggestions? Would they solve it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a given that that is what Mr. Byrne, Ms Irwin and others in their situation should get. They should get fairness, they should not have been treated like this and they should not be being gouged the way they are. Why is the Government not doing what is necessary? What are the impediments? When we say get the vulture funds out and cap interest rates, it just says it cannot do that. To...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds (Resumed): Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation (21 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Clearly, I agree with Mr. Hall and I do not think anybody listening to the account could not agree that something needs to be done. Why will they not do it? Perhaps Mr. Hall does not want to answer because he just wants to try to convince people to do it.