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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will elaborate on the question slightly. Objectively, demand will not go down in the sense that people will need housing. Regardless of what interest rates are, the same number of people who are projected to need housing will still need it. They may not have that demand backed by the willingness of banks to lend them the money, but they will still need to be housed. If interest rates...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Discussion (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Dr. McQuinn indicated that we need a high proportion of social and affordable housing, given all the things we are talking about. Is the proportion the Government is envisaging high enough? I would advocate that we do not need any more unaffordable housing at all because there is a trade-off in the context of every site that is available. With a particular site which is zoned for housing...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (22 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has made contact with a company (details supplied) following its recent announcement in relation to a 5% cut to its global workforce; what this may mean specifically for the company’s employees here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14262/23]

Eviction Ban: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Hear, hear.

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. It is already clear that the Government has no respect whatsoever for any decision that this House might make to maintain an eviction ban as we in the Opposition wish to do because it has already ignored a Bill that was passed four weeks ago by People Before Profit, calling for the maintenance of the eviction ban for as long as the housing...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is running late.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the well-being framework. [11606/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Health Strategies (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If well-being and quality of life are to mean anything, they must surely mean that people have some security about the place where they live. I do not see how someone can possibly have either of those things if they do not have security about where they live. The Government's decision to lift the eviction ban means approximately 750,000 people in rented accommodation in this country have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Friends of the Earth report, which is still left out in the cold, is just the latest report we have, either from environmental or anti-poverty groups, that points out the grant system for retrofit is massively skewed in favour of the well-off and is of little, if any, use to low-income households, particularly those in the private rented sector, although similar things could be said about...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not a Minister.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The attitude of the DUP to the Windsor Framework and the Stormont brake, which was a major concession to the party, just shows that it will do absolutely anything to cling onto the sectarian bandwagon and maintain the sectarian status quo. When we see that, does it not suggest that if we need a force that can challenge the sectarianism the DUP seeks to perpetuate, the place to look is the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Meetings (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the climate action delivery board, co-chaired by his Department. [12856/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Brexit and Northern Ireland will next meet. [12855/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it in place now?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I hope the public respond to the Government's cold-hearted decision to lift the eviction ban by coming out in their thousands on the demonstration on 1 April outside the Dáil. I genuinely want to know what the Minister has to say to people in my area where currently there is no family emergency accommodation at all. For his information, there is a six-month waiting list. If people...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They can change them.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment whether a person who is in Ireland on a stamp 3 visa but has a qualification that would entitle them to a critical skills permit can apply for a job from Ireland and still qualify for this type of permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13805/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason, unlike most other sections of the business society, taxi drivers are legally obligated to offer card paying facilities to their customers given that it can often be the case when a driver arrives at some destinations internet is not available which is problematic if the customer has no cash as an alternative; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 451. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline any constraints, price or otherwise to the county council's acquisition programme and the tenant in situ programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13167/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of the new initiatives for which he has recently got approval from Cabinet (details supplied) that will assist those with eviction notices to buy their own homes or for their homes to transfer to cost-rental; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12919/23]