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Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is insanity, yet the Government continues to allow it to persist, resulting in people entering into homelessness. Regarding income thresholds, I will return to the example of the woman in Nenagh. She earns too much to get social housing support, so she is living in a tent with her kids. For a year, I have been raising the case of a woman who has been in homeless accommodation with...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As a member of the Business Committee, I was the one who asked for this debate to take place. I have been asking for it since several weeks before the summer recess. It was refused before the summer, it was refused until now and, finally, the Minister has deigned to allow a debate but has left before the vast majority of the Opposition spokespeople on housing even have a chance to respond...

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister has not read ours obviously.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Liz Truss and the Tory right have faced a humiliating defeat over their attempts to cut taxes on the rich to the levels that we have in this country, as Deputy Paul Murphy pointed out. In better news, though, in another part of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament has introduced a rent freeze and an eviction ban in response to the cost-of-living crisis. The Tories in Scotland are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach says “can” and “should”.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want the Taoiseach to tell them to stop people being made homeless.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Send a memo to them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It contains the word “may”.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment will next meet. [44835/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have an email in front of me from an accidental landlord who has a tenant in receipt of the housing assistance payment, HAP. The person has to sell the property but does not want to evict the tenant. The landlord asked Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council if it would it buy the place at a reasonable price of approximately of €295,000. The council said it would not do so if a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [46016/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of people who are studying to be psychologists, I have raised with the Taoiseach on numerous occasions the fact that educational and counselling psychologists who were doing doctorates did not get funding for very expensive courses. In the budget, the Government extended the funding to counselling psychologists but not to educational psychologists, which is madness when one...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the fact the Croke Park agreement hours are no longer in place; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that for many employees in the public sector, the overtime entitlement is based on the rules in place prior to these hours ending; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48393/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the consideration he gave to expanding capital investment in areas such as housing, climate and energy savings prior to budget 2023 in order to reduce the need for large current expenditures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48395/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 139. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when legislative change will be made to give the Workplace Relations Commission jurisdiction to hear complaints in relation to the working time at sea directive, as promised by his Department in January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48106/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 151. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures that will be in place in future Government electricity credits to ensure persons who are on subsidiary meters, yet are paying bills on a full property, will be able to avail of the full grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of apartments and studios in larger buildings that are on subsidiary meters to the main electricity account and therefore not entitled to the full electricity credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47897/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 214. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of tenants who will benefit from the new €500 rental credit given that the numbers of tenancies that are supported by the rental accommodation scheme, HAP or rent allowance; the numbers of students and low paid workers who do not earn enough to pay tax; the numbers of tenancies that are not registered with the Residential...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 232. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason that karate classes for children pay a higher VAT rate than other classes such as yoga, fitness classes and pilates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48468/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 Oct 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to publish the review that his Department has on the social housing income limits; the bodies or individuals that his Department consulted with in the course of carrying-out the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48486/22]