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Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the European Council. [18279/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raised it here back in 2018.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would look into it if I were the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [18278/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The decision to waive levies for developers is a disgraceful recycling of an already failed policy. Does the Taoiseach not remember LIHAF, which involved subsidies to developers to build infrastructure and was supposed to deliver affordable housing? Within weeks of LIHAF being introduced, the requirement to get 40% back in affordable housing was dropped and we got virtually nothing in terms...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How about EU funding of militias?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the current situation in regard to the development of a national security strategy. [18277/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is involved in a systematic campaign of trying to condition public opinion to move Ireland away from neutrality. It is exploiting every dire crisis around the world to further make the case for reviewing neutrality and, ultimately, moving away from it into a closer alliance with NATO and the EU militarisation project. The latest example is Sudan. All present have witnessed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On evictions, the Minister knows I totally disagree with the decision to lift the moratorium. I have just got a text from a family who have the bailiffs coming on Tuesday. Both parents are working and they have two kids. The woman works in an insurance company. If she has to go into hostel accommodation, she will also lose her job. Please tell me what I am supposed to do or what they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, but the woman in question was three days outside the look-back. I have written to the Minister about that as well. It is unbelievable. Four years on, this woman, who is working and contributing to Irish society, is stuck in emergency accommodation. I then said that maybe cost-rental housing would be an option but cost rental is a flipping lottery. Somebody who has been four years in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. On leasing, our colleague said that leasing is better than being in emergency accommodation. That is true, but I cannot for the life of me understand, when completed new developments are on the market, why our local authorities, including mine recently, end up leasing rather than buying them, when we have all this money available. It is self-evidently better value for the public and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Minister announce it next week?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 145. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 8 February 2023, if a solution has been found yet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19199/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (25 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to avoid delays in the Leaving Certificate results this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18910/23]

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: First Stage (20 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's decision to lift the eviction ban is going to cause thousands of people to face the terrifying prospect of homelessness. That is particularly the case because of the abysmal failure of the Government to control rent increases. Over the past ten years, rents on average have risen by 82%, while in Europe rents in the same period have only gone up by 18% because they have rent...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: First Stage (20 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: The profits from a public service go to build infrastructure in Australia. It is madness.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 357. To ask the Minister for Health the treatment available in Ireland to a patient who is suffering from stage four oesophageal cancer which has spread; if no treatment is available, what options are available to the patient to have treatment outside of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18620/23]

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----says there are 70,000 planning permissions but the applicants are sitting on them. As soon as someone gets a planning permission, the value of the property goes up and then he or she sits on it for ten years. The Government allows that as well. When will it do something about this? My last point is topical. He now has a €10 billion surplus. I have a very simple proposal....

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and the Social Democrats for bringing forward this important motion. We are happy to support the idea of a punitive vacant homes tax to deal with an estimated 166,000 vacant properties, according to the CSO, that could be used to address the utter scandal of the housing crisis. Let me give an example that stares me in the face every day I go into my office...