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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In other words, the Minister of State's Department completely ignores the data it collects and the analysis it carries out. The Minister of State continues to trot out mantras without the slightest evidence. I am afraid the evidence produced by his Department shows there is no problem with planning permission. The number of planning permissions being granted is increasing dramatically, it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not me. This is the Minister of State's Department's report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is sort of-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is in your report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has relayed to the Government the findings in the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, publication, Housing Analytical Notes, published on 5 December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22158/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: By the luck of the lottery I get a second chance to ask the Minister of State about this report.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Policy (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Exactly. The big phenomenon the report identifies is uncommenced apartments. It states that the number of apartment complexes that are getting planning permission way exceeds the number that are built. What is the Government going to do about that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has read the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, housing analytical notes published on 5 December 2022, particularly the Planning Permissions and Housing Supply analytical note; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22159/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department's IGEES unit produced a report on planning permissions and housing supply at the end of last year. The evidence it provides directly counters the Government's narrative about planning. The Government says again and again the problem is too many planning objections and that is why we cannot ramp up housing supply. The Department has produced a document that says that is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister of State has not answered the question. Does the Minister pass on the information his Department gathers to the people who develop housing policy? The Minister of State gave an interesting summary of the document, which I am beginning to suspect he has not read. The Minister of State said the document says we need more documents with more data. That is not what it says. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Again, the Minister of State really should read the report, because it says the grant rate for single dwellings is much higher and it is especially so in rural Ireland. It is almost over 90%. Thus, the mantra that planning objectors are slowing down applications for single dwellings in rural Ireland is just not true. Even in areas with the highest refusal rates the grant rate is 70% and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 52. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is planning any new measures in Budget 2024 to address the recruitment and retention difficulties across key areas of the public sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22156/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (11 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 251. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details on the reason a respite service (details supplied) is closed for three months; the replacement service that will be available for parents and carers in the meantime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22219/23]

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will have four and a half minutes and Deputy Barry will have two minutes.

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is swings and roundabouts.

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When I studied economics in school, there was a debate about what created value in society. There was one page about Karl Marx, which stated that he argued that all value derived from the labour of workers. There was one paragraph that said Karl Marx was wrong and that it is much more complicated. It then went on to say that entrepreneurial skill, capital, rent and various other factors...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is done regularly, though.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Dublin Rathdown constituency, which is not even my constituency, a family with working parents - one works in a bakery and his wife works in an insurance company - and two children have been evicted. They are HAP tenants, they have a court order against them and the sheriff is due around. The house is owned by receivers, Ernst & Young, which want to sell it. I contacted the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We regularly do that. The Cathaoirleach often gives the Taoiseach an extra five minutes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is normal practice.