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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...

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----but that does not mean that there must be a financial interaction at the point of use. That is commodifying in a way. It is making water a private commodity rather than a socially owned resource that everyone is entitled to use and for which people contribute through the tax system. I am throwing that in as another dimension to this argument. There are different ways of becoming...

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this important motion, which we are happy to support. As many Deputies have said, while it is the case, and not necessarily a bad thing, that we have an ever-growing number of digital and electronic financial transactions – for some, this is convenient and can be a good and useful thing – people need a choice. For many, if it...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank TASC for its very interesting submission. I am interested in the points made in respect of the health service. There was reference to the complexities arising from the two-tier system. I ask the witnesses to elaborate on that. There are certainly complexities and great inequalities as a result of the two-tier system. There is further complexity arising from the fact that much of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In TASC's vision of things, would we get rid of private health insurance altogether? I am in favour of doing so. To me, private health insurance is just parasitical. It flows, though, from the fact that there is fear about the inadequacy of the public health system. People feel they have to take it out as, literally, insurance against having to deal with being on a waiting list for years...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is there a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation in this context? The loads of money, resources, time and billing and all the administration that goes into the existence of a private health insurance industry is all waste. It is accounted for as health spending. We are often told Ireland has a very high level of health spending, but it actually has nothing to do with the provision of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach when the committee that deals with higher education and research will next meet. [10251/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I echo what Deputy O'Reilly said. Trans rights are human rights. Trans people have every bit as much a right to be recognised in every level of our education system as anybody else. I wish to ask the Taoiseach about the PhD workers and postgraduate workers who are planning a protest in the next week or two outside Leinster House. They point out that the highest stipend for PhD students...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Currently, 13,000 Ukrainians who have come here seeking refuge are working and contributing to making Irish society a better place, which is what most immigrants want to do. There is a very significant obstacle for Ukrainians in particular in that many of them are single parents - women with children - and there is no childcare is available for them. We already have a problem here in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach answer my question?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have got nothing.