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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.

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 the interference with the market-----

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 am with Mr. Hall 100%. We will see. Mr. Hall has put his finger on it. It is the nonsense that we cannot interfere with the market.

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will keep pushing. I thank the witnesses for their testimony and Mr. Hall for his work. I hope we can put enough pressure on the Government to do something because, clearly, it is an intolerable situation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Equality Issues (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are many disturbing and unacceptable aspects to the homelessness crisis but undoubtedly one of the worst of them is the number of children living in homeless situations. It is difficult to overstate how much the State is letting down children who have to endure emergency accommodation and homelessness, particularly for long periods. I have raised multiple times in here the case of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Equality Issues (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his Department’s public sector duty equality and human rights assessment. [29536/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Data (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework for Ireland, overseen by his Department. [29535/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Data (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On Monday, a young woman with her two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, both of whom are homeless, came into me and said they had nowhere to go. I got into the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and in fairness, it responded quickly and they got a placement. Then I got a text from the young woman saying the place was not the best and was absolutely manky. It stated the cooker was in reach of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [29534/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Any fair-minded person who looks at this will see it is dripping and stacked to the rafters with pro-NATO people and people associated with the military-industrial complex. For example, there is not a single speaker from the Non-Aligned Movement. For people's information, that is the biggest movement of states in the world that do not associate or identify with the big military powers,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the weekend, President Higgins rang the alarm bells about the dangerous drift in Ireland's foreign policy away from neutrality and raised concerns about the composition of the Government's consultative forum. The President has to be somewhat constrained and diplomatic in what he says. However, what he said echoes what we have been trying to say for the past number of months, namely,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (20 Jun 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 281. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how a person (details supplied) can receive a permit for employment without immigration status, which is required for their worker's permit, but they cannot gain immigration status (stamp 1) without a worker's permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29142/23]