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- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am deadly serious.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Sometimes one cannot attend the Business Committee. I had a substitute there, by the way.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have not finished. I want the Minister of State to explain the changes to the Affordable Housing Act.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: There you go. The Dáil has never discussed the amendments to the Affordable Housing Act.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like to hear the Minister of State first.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just find this extraordinary. The Minister of State is telling us he cannot answer the questions about these amendments to the Residential Tenancies Act that we have never debated in the Dáil and that are contained in building control legislation. The Minister of State who is taking the session does not know the answers. That is a joke of legislation. It absolutely makes a sham of...
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is sharp practice.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not blaming the Acting Chairman.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But just for the record, if we try to introduce amendments to a Bill that are outside its scope, we are laughed out of the room. We are not even given explanations. They are just ruled out of order, full stop. We are told this has nothing to do with the Bill. Now we have a whole load of them that are outside the scope of the Bill.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is speaking on the amendment.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is speaking on the amendment.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: He is speaking to the amendment.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Whatever you do, do not go outside the scope of the amendment.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Government.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the Government.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is playing fast and loose.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would like an explanation from the Minister of State. There is a load of amendments that have nothing whatsoever to do with the Bill that was originally discussed in the Dáil. The expression we use is that they are outside the scope of the Bill. They are completely outside of the scope of the Bill that was discussed here and they just appeared. The Minister of State might tell me...
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a joke anyway. We only have half an hour.
- Regulation of Providers of Building Works and Building Control (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Jun 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: If we get one amendment done we, will be lucky.