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Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point is that the general principle is right. We need some body that is genuinely representative of all stakeholders, all those who have a real interest in protecting and enhancing the bay, protecting its biodiversity as an amenity, representing the various stakeholders in the bay area and ensuring that the water quality is the best it can possibly be. That body should have real power...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, it was not, but from small things important ones often grow. We built up the campaign against that horrific proposal. Subsequently, there was another proposal for a ten-storey apartment block. In Dún Laoghaire, just east of the east pier, the entire area from Teddys ice cream to the east pier would now be blocked out from the main road if that proposal had gone forward. At the...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are war crimes different if they take place in different countries? Is illegal occupation different if it takes place in different countries? Are systematic abuses of human rights different if they take place in different countries? Are crimes against humanity different if they take place in different countries? I would say most people would answer "No" to those questions. Abuses of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is no balance to be struck if people are going to be homeless.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They would want to get a move on.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we face into Christmas, the chronic shortage of taxis will become even more of an issue and will deter people from going into central Dublin and other city centres. The National Transport Authority, NTA, has acknowledged there are now 3,000 taxi licences that are inactive. Taxi groups have been saying for some time - I reiterate their call - that drivers should be allowed to transfer...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I ask the Taoiseach to respond to the question I asked, if he could.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are 3,000 inactive licences. Let them transfer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (7 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when three levels will be in place for the leaving certificate, as is the case with the junior certificate (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61147/22]

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have little to add to what Deputy Smith said on the substantive issue except to encourage those in the Construction Defects Alliance, the Apartment Owners' Network and all those campaigning on this issue to keep up their battle. It is because they have campaigned that they are forcing this discussion in this House and that they will force the Government to give them the 100% redress they...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will it control rents and make them affordable? Will it deliver public housing via our local authorities whose job it is to do so?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the first time in 15 years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was zero. Does he know how many Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council built in the first six months of this year? Zero. Does he know how many South Dublin County Council built in the first six months of this year? Zero. Is the Minister serious in claiming his Government's plan is a success when it has failed to spend nearly €750 million against a housing crisis of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Planning permissions are not the issue in the housing crisis. We have 80,000 planning permissions granted at the moment. The problem is that those in the private sector has no interest in solving this crisis. Why would it when it can command record house prices and record rents? It has a vested interest in not solving the crisis because if there was lots of cheap accommodation it could...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Saturday, 17 December is the day the new Taoiseach will be elected. The Cost of Living Coalition has called a demonstration outside the Dáil for that day. It is a very broad group of trade unions, students unions, disability groups, anti-poverty and housing groups and believes we do not need a new Taoiseach but a new Government. If there was not enough evidence of that need, we have...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of new smart meters that have had to be replaced due to being faulty since the beginning of the programme; the number of customers that have been charged €400 for requesting a meter check; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60563/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (6 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 612. To ask the Minister for Health when a care plan will be implemented for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60552/22]

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The only reason we need this legislation is because of the shameful fact that we have a two-tier health system. Consequently, huge numbers of people, nearly half the people in this country, are so frightened of what will happen to them when they get sick, given the state of the public health system, that they feel it necessary to pay out large sums of money every year in order to have...

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I welcome President von der Leyen to the Dáil and to Ireland. I appreciate her comments about Europe's commitment to ensuring that there will be no hard Border on the island of Ireland or that the exit of Britain from the EU should not in any way adversely impact on the peace on this island. To be honest, nobody out there in the world would thank me if we used this opportunity just to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (1 Dec 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On that point, we must do the catch-up and provide purpose-built, affordable, student accommodation on university lands. By the way, the idea of state aid rules kicking in is slightly worrying when it comes to public universities. These are public universities and public goods, but I will leave that aside. The vast majority of students are still prey to what is going on in the wider...