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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Updated Economic and Fiscal Position in Advance of Budget 2023: Discussion (7 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes, unless the Chair is giving me more time.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not mean any offence to him. I am annoyed the senior Ministers will not hear the spokespeople from the different groups.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a bad practice.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It makes it worse.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy has just walked in; I have been here for two hours.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has shown utter disrespect for democracy this week by barrelling through a deluge of legislation that was guillotined without proper scrutiny. It is a cynical tactic. It shows contempt both for this House and for the people. Some of us have protested very strongly at the Business Committee about this. Unfortunately, however, the Business Committee is not a democracy and the...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Deputy is wasting his time there.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was not slagging the Deputy, I was slagging the party.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On a point of order, I want it noted that the two senior Ministers, as we are about to begin the summer recess, are leaving the Chamber, meaning only the Minister of State with responsibility for heritage will remain, when the spokespersons for many of the party groups have not yet responded to the summer economic statement. That is outrageous.

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is the Dáil.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I raise the same issue with the Minister. We have a crisis now in emergency accommodation for people fleeing the terrible war in Ukraine and other wars and conflicts around the world. We should not distinguish between people suffering in horrendous circumstances or conflicts anywhere in the world. We also have, however, our own homelessness and housing crisis. It all points to the fact...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: United Nations (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 53. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the recent Food and Agriculture Organisation report on food security and nutrition and on its relationship with Ireland's current agricultural policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38604/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 117. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider revising the criteria in relation to access to the exceptional needs payments such as the time limits between applications and so on; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38606/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of her plans to provide alternative employment for the current providers of local employment services who have or may lose their positions as a result of the current tendering out process by her Department for such services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38607/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if each local authority is required to have a complaints officer or department; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38807/22]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Ministers for their contributions. One of the issues that I am particularly exercised about is eligibility for social housing and social housing support. We have been repeatedly given commitments on publishing the outcome of a review that has been running for at least five years, which it was reported was concluded in December 2021. It still has not been published or announced...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very glad to hear that. Has the Minister quantified the cost, because it would have budgetary implications? I believe the thresholds should be raised substantially. That group of people whose income is in excess of €35,000 or perhaps up to €40,000 is still eligible depending on family size, but they are pushed over a cliff. Some of those people are in homeless...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That tells me it is not in the Minister's budget considerations currently. Is that fair to say? It does not figure in how we are going to spend that €2.7 billion, quite a bit of which will go on whatever public sector pay deal is reached. I will get to that in a moment.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I suggest to the Minister that it would be very sensible from a budgetary point of view to start to work out how much it would cost if the threshold went up to €40,000 and, likewise, how much it would cost if the threshold went up to €45,000, €50,000, and so on and so forth. To be honest, I cannot believe that we are not at least beginning to estimate that cost. If the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Summer Economic Statement 2022: Discussion (14 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have one last question on housing. Despite the debates we may have about whether Housing for All is fit for purpose and can actually deliver, does the Minister accept that since Housing for All was published, the situation has deteriorated and that he may need to reconsider the envelope, as it were, of planned expenditure on housing to meet the crisis that we are now facing? I am not just...