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Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The rules are the rules.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You did not actually say it. Nobody said it.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank those who have contributed to the discussion on our Eviction Ban Bill. I will respond briefly to some of the points made, particularly by the Government, the Rural Independent Group and one or two other Members. They stated that we do not acknowledge there are reasons landlords are exiting the market. The reason why landlords are exiting the market is because house prices are at an...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Thus, it is the same as the Covid one.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where?

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not.

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The rationale for the Eviction Ban Bill 2022 is as simple as it is urgent. If we do not strengthen and extend the ban on evictions, we are going to see an absolute avalanche of families, individuals and children going into homelessness over the next number of months. That is an unacceptable situation when we already have 11,600...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It appears to be a tactic of the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to skip out of these debates and not listen to the Opposition on what the Government claims it believes to be the most serious crisis facing the country. It does not matter how we feel but I believe it is insulting to the people who are caught up in the housing crisis that the Minister is clearly employing a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Six months.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over many decades, tens of thousands of women and children were wronged by the church and the State in this country. The twisted morality of the church and State at the time forcibly separated mothers and children. The Government apologised and promised to bring in a redress scheme. However, as the Taoiseach will know from the many emails that have been sent to Deputies and Ministers, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue co-ordination unit of his Department. [8575/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit was very centrally involved in organising what was an amazingly broad and diverse coalition, the Ireland for All coalition, that put tens of thousands of people on the streets, including community groups, trade unions, anti-poverty groups, housing campaigners, Traveller organisations, Opposition parties and many more. The first objective of that enormous demonstration...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about in the meantime?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What if a person is over the threshold?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the strategic goals of his Department’s strategy statement 2021-2023; and if he plans to update them. [8573/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2022 will be published. [8574/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [5893/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In including in Government policy the need for cost-rental and affordable schemes, the Government is acknowledging, rightly, that even if someone is over the social housing income threshold, that person still cannot afford market rents or prices. However, the delivery of cost-rental or affordable housing is pitifully slow. In my area, it is virtually non-existent. There is a cohort of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Despite the Government's considerable efforts to put a positive spin on its cost-of-living package, the net fact is that the vast majority of workers, pensioners and social welfare recipients are going to be very considerably less well off because increases in the cost of living and inflation are far in excess of the small increases given in the budget and the one-off measures being proposed...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has let people down, despite its best efforts to spin today's package.