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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.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce any supports, such as HAP, for households who are facing eviction or seeking accommodation but cannot afford current market rents but are above the social housing income thresholds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11856/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will extend the eviction ban at the end of March; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11854/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide the final figure for local authority own build social housing completions in the four Dublin local authorities in 2022; his views that this represents success or failure in terms of addressing the chronic housing crisis in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11853/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 153. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and other bodies to ensure the immediate servicing of the public housing lands in Old Conna and Rathmichael to accelerate the delivery of social and affordable housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11857/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A slightly mischievous interpretation.

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Explain the Debenhams stuff then.

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach will be familiar with the phrase “One law for the rich and one law for the rest of us”. There is a perception that policing and enforcement is dealt with differently depending on whether you are dealing with workers and working people or dealing with the rich and the powerful. I urge the Taoiseach in this regard to watch “406 Days”, a film that has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will speak on the same theme. Even business interests are now saying the housing and homelessness crisis is a major barrier to economic development or competitiveness if we want to put it in those terms. The Taoiseach justified what I believe to be the cruel and shameful decision to allow more families, individuals and children to be evicted into homelessness in the coming months on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Among other matters, the shared island initiative looks at the all-Ireland energy market. North and South, people have been hammered by rising energy costs. It may be of interest to the Taoiseach to note that one of the two major gas suppliers in the North, Firmus Energy, has just reduced its prices for gas by between 18% and, in some cases, 22% because of the reduction in wholesale gas...