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Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No matter how much the Government tries to spin it, this debate is happening because it has made the cruel and cold-hearted decision to allow thousands of people to be evicted from next Saturday. That includes workers, pensioners, sick people, women and - worst of all - children. Does the Government honestly believe that any child deserves to be evicted into homelessness? More than 4,000...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished yet.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not over my time, but I will stop anyway.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not what I said.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this Bill. We are happy to support it. If it gets to the next stage, we would propose it is amended because we in People Before Profit have long held, as Deputy O'Callaghan, who obviously shares the same opinion, said, that people who pay rent and have done nothing wrong deserve security of tenure and under no circumstances should be evicted when...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are Jewish-only trade unions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are no sanctions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Enormous protests over the attempt by the far-right Netanyahu Government to interfere with the judicial process have rocked Israel. For Palestinians, there is a pretty grim irony in all of this. While it might be legitimate to worry about political interference with independent judicial workings, for the Palestinians there is absolutely no recourse to justice whatsoever because, as many...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is absolutely shocking that hundreds of people coming here, whether from Ukraine or elsewhere, are not being given accommodation. The Government needs to seriously step up its efforts to provide emergency accommodation and repurpose empty buildings, of which there are very many. When we look at the nuclear poker being played by Putin, which raises the very real prospect of another...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the international division of his Department. [11604/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Frankie is nearly four years old. A year ago, as he was non-verbal, he was referred for an assessment of need to the HSE on 3 February 2022. On 4 February 2022, he got a letter saying his assessment would be on or before 4 May. His parents rang the HSE at the end of May because he still had not got his assessment and were told it would be two years before he got an assessment. Nearly a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place. [12864/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Taoiseach will be aware, there is quite a considerable shortage of taxis at present. One of the demands that the representative taxi groups have made is that taxi plate owners who are no longer using their taxi plates would be allowed to sell them to others, sometimes family members, who want to become taxi drivers. Otherwise, people can only get plates if they can afford expensive...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They used to vote for Fianna Fáil. They do not anymore.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Several weeks ago, before any Private Member's motions were put forward on the issue of the eviction ban, the Chief Whip agreed that we would have debate on the implications of the eviction ban being lifted and the impact on homelessness. After that was agreed and presented to the Business Committee last Thursday, that debate, which was supposed to take place later today, was withdrawn....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If this Government were to be dissolved, it would at last open up the possibility that we could take the sort of radical emergency measures that are necessary to address the housing crisis and finally depart from the failed strategy, pursued by successive Fine Gael governments, of favouring the interests of speculators, developers, vulture funds and corporate landlords, who are profiteering...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach survive?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That will not be much consolation to those who are homeless.