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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government's decision to lift the ban on evictions is absolutely unforgivable. Rather than engaging in constant deflection, justification and enunciating the Government's supposed successes in housing policy or its plans for the future, the Tánaiste needs to very simply tell the people who are facing homelessness what they are going to do. Most of the people who are facing eviction...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will put something on the record about the Tánaiste in a moment.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Believe in them?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: As in, I think they do not exist?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They exist. I believe in them.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, that is not correct.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not believe it is the Tánaiste’s job to look after private developers. It is his job to provide public housing.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: More investors-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government did not do 10,00 last year. Is the Tánaiste joking?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Is it 10,000 social houses?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The figures are going up by the day.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is obvious the Tánaiste is dancing the tune of the speculators and developers. Even the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, stated there is no problem with people objecting to planning permission or putting in submissions on build-to-rent and totally unaffordable developments. In such developments, Jackie - on whom the Tánaiste quite disgracefully tried to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That is what he has actually just done.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Jackie has looked at 700 properties over the year in which she and her family have been threatened with eviction.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Her 13 year-old-daughter who has special needs wrote a personal note to the Tánaiste and she still has not even had the dignity of a response. It is absolutely outrageous. The last place Jackie looked at was €2,700 per month. How is anybody supposed to afford that? Today there are 11 two-bedroom properties available in Dún Laoghaire. Does the Tánaiste know what...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What are the Jackies supposed to do? Where are they supposed to go? Has the Tánaiste got an answer for them?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Five.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Jackie's daughter wrote to the Tánaiste. Maybe he could respond to her letter?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: They are over the threshold. Does the Tánaiste not get that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Under pressure to do so.