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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Saturday, the film "406 Days" about the 406 days the Debenhams workers were in dispute with the Debenhams company will premier at the Dublin International Film Festival. It has just won the festival's human rights prize. One thing it highlights is that the Celine group, made up of three US hedge funds, Barclay's Bank and Bank of Ireland, walked away with £315 million from the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----the fact that €200 million debt was loaded on the Irish company by this consortium to ensure that the workers got absolutely nothing. I took the issue with the workers-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to the Corporate Enforcement Authority. Will the Taoiseach check what report, if any, has come back from the Corporate Enforcement Authority about the tactical nature of the liquidation which left those workers with nothing-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and whether the law was broken in the treatment of the Debenhams workers?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It will not get back to us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In some cases, such as co-living, I object, or I sided with students who opposed unaffordable student accommodation. What the Taoiseach did not do, in his diversionary tactics, was answer the point about whether he will continue to allow families to go into homelessness who have done absolutely nothing wrong. Is he going to let more children and families end up homeless because he decides...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach going to raise the rent supports that are available to people, in the absence of bringing in rent controls which should be done in order to deal with these obscene rents-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----to ensure that there is some prospect for families looking for accommodation affording the rents being charged by the very developers-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----who are charging these rents? That is why I oppose some of their developments.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For actively supporting it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach studiously decided not to answer the questions I raised. To be absolutely clear on that particular point, in the same period I did not oppose and, in many cases, actively supported thousands and thousands of planning applications and the commencement of construction, not least in areas such as Cherrywood, which is the biggest residential development in the country, or...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Today, the Children's Rights Alliance highlighted once again one of the most shameful aspects of the utterly disastrous housing crisis, namely the phenomena of child homelessness and the impact that has on children, on their mental health and on their well-being, and how, as they put it, it deprives and robs children of their precious childhood. The figures are stark. There are now 3,431...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a list of social welfare payments which qualify a person for the SEAI fully-funded energy upgrades; if he will provide a list of the social welfare payments that do not qualify a person; the rationale for same; if the scope will be broadened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9565/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (28 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of homes built (details supplied) to date in 2023, broken down by local authority. [9882/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Except water.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Maybe they were listening.

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The objectives of the Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill seem fairly laudable. The main purposes of the Bill are, as set out in the explanatory memorandum, to "recognise the prevention of harm to individuals, particularly those who are vulnerable or at risk, as an explicit objective of An Garda Síochána; provide a new coherent governance and oversight framework for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Everybody is clear that Putin is a murderous tyrant and criminal warmonger. However, I quoted the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists which is made up of ten Nobel Peace Laureates who start by condemning Putin and then go on to urge NATO. The problem is that the Tánaiste has a blind spot when it comes to the equally bloody history of NATO and its major powers. The United States has never...