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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: People who are over the threshold are being evicted. They are not entitled to anything.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Because it is not a full eviction ban.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The tenant in situ scheme.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Housing for All progress report for quarter 4 2022 will be published. [4417/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For a very long time, some of us campaigned for the Government to introduce a policy of using public money to buy the homes of people threatened with eviction. Very slowly, and not very consistently, the Government has started to do that. It is not doing enough. A cohort of people is not getting any benefit from this, namely, those who happen to be over the social housing income...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What is the point?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel does not recognise Palestinian elections.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Palestinians in Jerusalem do not get to vote at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Israel is involved in a brazenly naked illegal occupation of Palestinian land and territory. This week, its cabinet authorised further illegal settlements on land that, under international law, is designated for the Palestinians. In the first month of this year, 50 Palestinians died in what was the deadliest month we have seen in decades, with the Israeli army running constant military...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on EU and international affairs will next meet. [5891/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----introducing rent controls and, crucially, stopping evictions into homelessness.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are they going to food banks if they are all doing so well?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the people going to food banks.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In one of the richest countries in the world we now have tens of thousands - if not hundreds of thousands - of people dependent on food banks for food. Hundreds of thousands of people are now in arrears with their energy and utility bills. Some 12,000 people are officially homeless in emergency accommodation, but actually the numbers are multiples of that. I believe the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 423. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if birth information requested from Tusla since October 2022 will be released and acknowledgments made to applicants for the distress caused by the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6518/23]

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Many damning facts and statistics show the shameful failure of this Government to address the diabolical housing and homelessness crisis in this country. I will use some of my time to tell the Ministers of State about the human reality of their failures and the misery it is inflicting on people. Watching this debate at the moment is a woman called Jackie. Jackie and her husband are in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will elaborate on a further example. I mentioned the man with early-onset Alzheimer's, who is also in a housing assistance payment, HAP, arrangement where he had to pay a top-up. Before getting Alzheimer's, he was working and could make the top-up. Since he got Alzheimer's, he cannot work or make the top-up and is falling into arrears. No appointment was possible. With our...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will certainly do that. The other case I mentioned is also complex. I will not go over the details again but, just to be clear, it concerns a woman with cancer whose husband cannot turn down the heat and so has big bills. Because she is on illness benefit, she is not entitled to fuel allowance and, therefore, got none of the extra payments for that allowance. This is terrible stuff. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will continue where I left off because the question is on the same topic. I will further elaborate the problem. The Minister is saying that community welfare officers, CWOs, are there and people can get appointments. I am telling her that is not the experience that is being relayed to us. That is not happening. In the old days, people could go down to the CWO without any prior notice...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Welfare Services (9 Feb 2023)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister knows, huge numbers of families are being hammered with the cost of living, energy costs, food prices and so on, and the centrepiece of the Government's response to that has involved telling people to get exceptional needs payments. Pre-Covid, if you needed something like that, you would have a face-to-face meeting with a community welfare officer, CWO, whereas that is no...