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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The problem is that there is no sense from the Government about the emergency we are facing. The INMO does not take industrial action lightly. According to its statements, the reason nurses and midwives feel compelled to take industrial action is that 10,000 patients were left waiting on trolleys during the month of February. They make this absolutely clear. For example, the president of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What good is it if people cannot afford it?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At that price.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At that price.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This deserves a longer debate but let us at least start the debate. If labour, which is in short supply, is busy building a private development that will cost €3,000 in rent per month, it means the short-supply labour is not building the public and affordable housing. That is what it means in reality when we do not have enough construction workers. We are getting investor-led,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will ensure the National Transport Authority regulations regarding renewal of taxi licences incorporate some leeway on deadlines; if he will provide an update on the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4807/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Staff (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on efforts being made to fill posts across the public sector, given the difficulties currently being experienced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10593/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Housing Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the discussions he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the failure of Housing for All to deliver on its local authority build targets for 2022, particularly in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10595/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Housing Provision (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 124. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the role his Department has in ensuring the progress of the commitments in the national development plan in supporting the current public housing programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10592/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the progress of NSO 8 in the national development plan - "Transition to Climate Neutral and Climate Resilient Society"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10591/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (2 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 15 November 2022, if he will review and correct his previous response where he stated that the procedures were followed in relation to a complaint made to the Ombudsman's office concerning breach of a statutory requirement, under section 53(1) of the Building Control Act 2007, by...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. Anything that helps develop and supports the credit union movement should be welcomed. The credit union movement is unusual among financial institutions internationally, although not unique, in that it offers a not-for-profit model that is democratic and community orientated and has social and community objectives rather than objectives of...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To be honest, successive Governments seem to have been very slow in taking them up on an important offer. I appreciate there is a bit more money in the Government coffers at the moment but it still seems odd that credit unions were often forced, or at least that was the story they relayed to me, to deposit their money with commercial banks when they would very much rather have invested in...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I certainly hope it will be done and I do not know all the details as to why it has not been fully utilised. Perhaps that is a question to put out there, but the Irish League of Credit Unions was clear in making the case a number of years ago, when I was a member of the finance committee, that credit unions wanted to assist in addressing the housing crisis. The Bill includes a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take up the issue I raised earlier. The Taoiseach said he finds my position on offshore wind confusing. Yet, there is a thing called a "just transition". I know the Taoiseach does not believe in it, because his solution to everything is to let the private developers decide. That is what he has done with offshore wind. On the relevant projects, he gives them a free pass regardless...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Developers have selected these sites.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach and other Government spokespersons have repeatedly justified the review, to use the language they tend to use, of our neutrality in terms of the threat of cyberattacks. Is that a bit of a ruse, given that they are not looking at the lessons of the biggest cyberattack that happened here on 14 May 2021? Far from suggesting that we should abandon neutrality, or whether this has...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 17. To ask the Taoiseach the membership and terms of reference of the national security committee chaired by the Secretary General of his Department. [10250/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They should watch the film about Debenhams.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (1 Mar 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach get back to us on that?