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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.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not true.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Immigration will next meet. [11361/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [11360/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A case I have raised with the Taoiseach and repeatedly with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, will come up again in the courts on Friday. It concerns Jacqueline and her husband. Her husband works for a semi-State company and they have two children, one of whom has special needs. Jacqueline and her husband will be going in front of a judge as their landlord is seeking...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and the council said could not happen. Will the Taoiseach give me a letter to give to the judge on Friday saying the Government now has a solution where the house could be bought for cost rental?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach do that to prevent the family being made homeless?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As I said, it is disgusting what the Government has done consigning so many more people who have done nothing wrong to homelessness. On the purchase alternative, which the Government claims it will ramp up, is that to be an instruction to the local authorities to buy houses where people are threatened with eviction or is it simply that the Government will allow it, in which case it will not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are entitled to nothing and they have been left hanging out to dry by the Government so far.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Government to do something to stop them being evicted?