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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: According to the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council's figures, if it meets, or slightly exceeds, the target for social and affordable housing in my area there will be more people on the housing list in four years' time than there are now. That is how inadequate the policy is. We need additional measures beyond what the Government has done to date. On the issue of buying...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Data (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 92. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a list of the arms industry companies from Ireland and other parts of the world that attended the recent 6 October 2022 arms fair, organised by the Department of Defence in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52081/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the call from a group (details supplied) for forest premiums in the next forestry programme not to be available to large scale institutional forestry investment funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52086/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the witnesses. Their contributions have been fascinating. I am not sure what my questions are because I have to absorb so much of what has been said. It is interesting what the ESRI and Social Justice Ireland said, that when you take out the one-off measures it is a regressive budget. I agree. That is an important point for us to make. My questions revolve around the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On that last point, is Professor Kinsella concerned that most of the offshore wind energy generation being planned will be in the hands of private companies and that there is potential for us to be the prey of speculators who have no real commitment to the welfare or long-term interests of the State?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is part of the plant being used as a film studio?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-budget 2023 Examination: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is empty at the moment, though.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he recognises the need to remove all fees for and financial barriers to further and higher education given the shortage of graduates and postgraduates across multiple sectors of Ireland’s economy and public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51823/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have just come from UCD, where the first person I met was a lecturer who said how worried she is about the college's ability to retain and recruit PhD students because of the financial pressures they are under. I was at Trinity College for the student walkout organised by the Union of Students in Ireland the other day. I met undergraduates who were furious that effectively nothing has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What the Government did was a drop in the ocean. It is telling that we had some of the biggest student protests for a long time after the budget. They were not happy. I am relaying what those students expressed to me. Some PhD students get no stipends. Some get miserable stipends of a few grand. Even those who get €18,000 have to work all the hours that God sends. They find it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Costs (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I still think the Minister is missing the reason they are protesting and why they are so angry. People who are on poverty stipends, who have no stipends, educational psychologists who have no funding and clinical psychologists who have a little funding are on such low incomes that they have been doubly hammered in real terms by the cost of living and the housing crisis. It is becoming...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the question of people who are paying multiple tariffs on gas and energy and are on district heating systems compared with those who are being massively ripped off on conventional contracts with energy companies, what will the Government do? For example, I met tenants from the new and much-trumpeted cost rental development on Enniskerry Road. They were delighted to get cost rental...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Were the tenants in situ?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We were calling for it for a long time and the Government ignored it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not happening in my area.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Social Dialogue (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social dialogue unit of his Department. [50102/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (18 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach clarify whether it is now policy, one that we have been asking for for two years, that the Government will purchase homes where families are threatened with being evicted into homelessness? The Government should go further and proactively purchase developer projects where new houses are coming on stream so that we can get more than 10% for social and affordable housing as...