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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not fair to leave people in debt. What about people now?

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not smirking, actually.

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Who will?

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government seeks to pick holes in People Before Profit-Solidarity's Rent Reduction Bill, but offers absolutely no alternative on how to control rents that are off the charts and that are directly contributing to the worst homelessness crisis on record. A record number of 11,600 families, including nearly 4,000 children, are languishing in emergency accommodation and thousands more have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legal basis on which she can refuse to answer Parliamentary Question No. 670 of 21 March 2023 in relation to the annual rental costs for the current temporary accommodation and site of a school (details supplied); if such a request for those costs is not disclosed, how oversight and transparency on the expenditure of these public funds are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 282 and 292 of 23 February 2023, while noting his acknowledgement of the recommendations of the Comptroller and Auditor General Report for 2018 that the previous cost-benefit analysis for State Aid for forestry 2014-2021 failed to account for a number of factors, the reason he does not...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 23 February 2023, while noting his announcement that he is 'reassessing its policy with regard to future afforestation on organic soils and that this will be informed by the UN Global Peatlands Assessment', if he will re-examine his reply in the context of this report's recommendations...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are concerns within his Department regarding health and safety issues regarding rotten ash trees breaking off and falling within plantations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19723/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 140. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will immediately and without further bureaucracy or prejudice grant permission to remove rotten ash trees resulting from chalara fraxinea, ash dieback disease affected this year, given the serious health and safety risks associated with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19724/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legal position regarding liability where dead or rotten ash plants within plantations fall causing injury; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19725/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 368 of 8 February 2023, if he will provide an update on an assessment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19879/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I nominate Deputy Nash.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ministers and their teams for their contributions. The big thing people are thinking about at the moment is the surpluses the Government has announced and what might be done with them. The Minister said it would not be prudent, given the underlying deficit when we take out the windfall profits, to rely on revenues that may be vulnerable to significant changes in the future....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Do I have a bit more time or not?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If I am out of time, I am out of time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am just asking if I am or am not out of time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Ministers for Finance, and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform (26 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just saying-----

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion on the very important subject of how mortgage holders are being absolutely creased with the mortgage interest increases they have experienced as a result of not only the rising ECB rates but also, and this is critical, as far as we are concerned, the profiteering of the banks. It is for that reason we think the Sinn Féin proposal...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should acquaint himself with the theory of Frankenstein's monster, because the militias that are running around and now killing Sudanese people are, in a significant part, the Frankenstein's monsters that have been created by hundreds of millions of euro of European Union funding. The leader of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, which was formerly the Janjaweed militias that...