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Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are not. I have one minute and 30 seconds. The Government says it is not possible to anything about all of this and yet, Berlin did it. Berlin brought in rent-cap legislation in 2020 to do precisely what we are looking to do, which is not to allow rents go above levels that are affordable. It was brought in throughout Germany in 2020. In Paris, it was brought it in 2018. If there...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have an absolutely dire rental and housing crisis. For a Bill that we table to try to address these extortionate rents we get sent the Minister of State with responsibility for heritage, electoral reform, local government and planning. The Minister with responsibility for housing does not even bother to come in. I find that really sickening. Yet again, I do not get an answer, although...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not shouting; projecting.

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. The Title of the Bill should make clear what we are trying to achieve here. For the vast majority of people who are impacted by the current housing crisis, the need for a Bill that will reduce the extortionate, frankly obscene and completely unaffordable rent levels is more than patently...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This is incredibly sharp practice on the part of the Government. It makes a mockery of any sort of proper oversight of legislation. We had a briefing on Monday from officials on these 48 pages of amendments. These are substantial amendments in the areas of planning that will affect the rights of people to access justice through judicial reviews and will affect what is, broadly, a good...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, but in a more broad sense the Government is laughing.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Instruction to Committee (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is trying to make fools of people as it does every year at this time as we head towards the summer recess. It barrels through a deluge of legislation, and guillotines it to get through and smuggles in matters that, if they were scrutinised properly, could be of serious import and concern to people. We will not have the chance, and the public will have no chance whatsoever, to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Reports (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the annual report of his Department for 2021 will be published. [36008/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 32. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his visit and address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. [30838/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Foreshore Issues (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is considering a request by a company (details supplied); and the legal basis to transfer from Foreshore Act 1933 to the Maritime Area Consent Regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38320/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (13 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 468. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remedy the lack of early intervention services available to a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38234/22]

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He is scared of Deputy Kenny.

Raise the Roof: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister suggested that some of us are just playing politics with this issue and we do not really want to see the housing crisis improved because, somehow, there is some political benefit to us from its persistence. I do not know whether he is just saying that to play politics or if he actually believes it. I say to him that it is absolute nonsense. I can tell him that I absolutely...

Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. It is difficult to resist, when discussing a treaty on outer space, the gag about this Government living on a different planet, but I will resist it and try to take the issue seriously. It is quite incredible it has taken 50 years to get to the point of actually transcribing this treaty into law. That is a pretty extraordinary fact. The objectives and...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government has trotted out a completely false narrative. Its members are all on message in saying they are the people with solutions and we are the people who are just being critical, but that is not the truth. Tomorrow we will have a Bill seeking to reduce the rents in this country to affordable levels and the Government will vote against it. That is the truth. The truth is that...

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is Government time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am certainly not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The cost-of-living and inflation crises were key issues at Davos. Did the Taoiseach talk to any representatives from France when he was there? This morning, he pooh-poohed efforts to control rents. He has similarly pooh-poohed our proposal that we should control energy prices. It may be of note to the Taoiseach that the French Government has limited energy price increases to a maximum of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his trip to the World Economic Forum. [34039/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (12 Jul 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Recently, the Tánaiste made references to the possible introduction of Uber to this country. Over the weekend, The Irish Timesdetailed that the origin of this was John Moran, the former Secretary General of the Department of Finance, lobbying a former Minister to put Uber's plans into the election manifesto of Fine Gael. What is the attitude of the Taoiseach to all of this? We had...