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Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We all get trolled. The existing Constitution allows for a delimiting of the rights of private property holders in the interests of the common good. That is what we did during the Covid pandemic, what the Minister has done with his very limited rent controls and so on and what he is doing here. Given that this House has declared an emergency, there is a very sound basis for maintaining the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I heard the Minister.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister can say it again.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, line 20, to delete “2023” and substitute “2024”. The eviction ban, or the deferment of termination dates for certain tenancies, to be more accurate, is a belated concession on the part of the Government to the long-standing demand of many of us here in the Opposition that it should ban no-fault evictions at least for the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has been forced to introduce an eviction ban. Over the past four years, People Before Profit has brought in four different Bills proposing eviction bans. The Government has argued against them. It has dragged its heels and resisted. It put up every argument as to why it could not happen and why it was problematic constitutionally, but when sufficient pressure came on, it...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If a vehicle passes the NCT, it passes the NCT.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For months and months, the taxi representative groups such as Tiománaí Tacsaí na hÉireann, the Taxi Alliance, the National Private Hire & Taxi Association, NPHTA, and the Irish Taxi Drivers Federation have been asking the Government to extend the arbitrary ten-year rule on vehicle licensing for taxi drivers to 15 years. A public consultation concluded on 12...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Northern Ireland (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach mentioned investment in culture and arts in the shared island programme. I draw his attention to something that was raised in testimony at the Committee on Budgetary Oversight about the Irish film industry by both Equity, which represents artists and performers, and representatives of crew, the people who work behind the camera, if you like. Both of them were testifying to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cabinet Committees (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination will next meet. [53228/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been a lot of criticism about the state of O'Connell Street. It is a complex problem but it is mostly emblematic of a failure of Government policy on multiple fronts. I want to make a very simple point when people give out about activities that are going on on O'Connell Street. There used to be three supervised public toilets in the O'Connell Street vicinity. Now there is none....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A few supervised public toilets would be good, though.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not if they are supervised.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not Hammerson.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Functions (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the problem.

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Government admit the truth about those who need housing support and raise the thresholds to ensure they are entitled to that support?

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all those who contributed to this discussion. I am not going to get into the war of statistics that these debates often descend into although I am not saying statistics are unimportant. The Minister has to start with acknowledging the truth. When the Government says the number on housing lists has falling it is a misrepresentation of the reality. According to the Parliamentary...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Housing for All - a New Housing Plan for Ireland is failing to meet its hopelessly inadequate targets to increase the supply of social and affordable housing; — according to the Parliamentary Budget Office, the most accurate estimate for households with a housing need may be close to 122,000, when you include those on the...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is just unbelievable. We are facing an unprecedented housing, homelessness, and accommodation crisis. Hundreds of thousands of people have been let down by the Government not providing the most basic thing, namely, a secure, affordable roof over the heads of individuals, families, and children. There are 122,000 households on the various housing lists. Almost 11,000 families, including...