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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.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [21530/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Good idea.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with the circular economy will next meet. [19912/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just returned from the funeral of a very lovely man, Mr. Owen Gallagher, a friend and fellow activist. I once again pass on my sympathies to his partner, Carolann, and his family. I raise it under this particular question because I first met Owen when he was a bin man working for the council in Bray. He was fighting against the then drive to privatise waste collection services. He...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will stop the sell-off of two banks (details supplied) and use the State's majority stake as the basis for a publicly owned non-profit banking system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21571/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Ulster Bank abandoned approximately 1 million loyal customers. We have vulture funds, such as Lone Star Funds, Mars Capital Ireland and Start Mortgages ripping people off with ridiculous interest rates. Is it not time for a public not-for-profit banking system? Instead of selling off the remaining Government share in Permanent TSB and AIB, we should use those institutions, which we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there a single shred of evidence that privately run for-profit banks have worked in our lifetime? We had to bail them out after the madness of the Celtic tiger that they helped to instigate. They are now ripping off people with mortgage interest hikes, profiteering-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I agree with that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2024 (9 May 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not; I have another go.