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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think they got some money, but not-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not know how many schemes there are where it has been suggested that somebody needs to co-ordinate between Departments on the issue of disability. It has also been suggested that the Department of the Taoiseach should take a lead role on this. We should bear in mind that we signed up to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD. I find the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appeal to the Taoiseach to do something about this.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can we get two or three minutes extra? There are only one or two questions-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach address the other couple of questions?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It was brought up with the Taoiseach and-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: All agencies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They asked for the money.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They asked the Department.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The service is gone now. It is unbelievable.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They have not got the money - the €250,000. That is it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In the Taoiseach’s capacity as part of the Cabinet Committee on Social Affairs and Equality, I have raised with him on a number of occasions in the last year the issue of Accessible Community Transport Southside Ltd., ACTS, which is a door-to-door, voluntary-run, not-for-profit transport service for people with wheelchairs. It moves hundreds of people who otherwise could not get out...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach his views on his Department’s recently published annual report 2021. [44836/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can I get certainty for next week?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You are considering-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not on this one.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Before the summer recess, I repeatedly asked the Taoiseach to facilitate a debate on the housing and homelessness crisis, particularly the review, or lack of a review, of the income thresholds for social housing, which means that thousands of families are being thrown off housing lists and denied housing assistance support. Over the last few days, there has been a drip-feed of reports that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We should lead not follow.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course the war in Ukraine has worsened the situation but that war does not explain wind energy companies making super profits even though their costs have not changed a bit. Nor does it explain the profiteering of energy companies, which has been mentioned already, in respect of gas from the Corrib field, gas from the UK, from where we get most of it, or from Norway. It also does not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On 6 October last year, just one week before the budget, People Before Profit brought the first motion into this Dáil calling for price controls on energy and the renationalisation of the energy supply sector to run it on a not-for-profit basis, to protect people against a cost of living crisis that was only in its infancy at that point. At that stage it was being warned that people may...