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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I did, and many questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There was one question I did not get an answer to earlier. Maybe people do not have the answer; the Government cannot give me an answer. Does the CCMA have any idea where can we get the figures for how many people are being taken off the list each year because they are reaching the income thresholds? I would just like to know those facts. If I understand correctly, Mr. Curran referred...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That was mostly AHBs, was it not?

Bretton Woods Agreements (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It seems the IMF and Bretton Woods institutions are keen to rebrand themselves and this Bill seems to be linked to that effort by the IMF. The infamous structural adjustment programmes that were imposed by the IMF on this country and many other countries in the developing world or those which hit major economic crises have proved utterly disastrous because of the conditions linked to these...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the Minister is aware, we believe that he should use the powers he has under the Consumer Protection Act to control the price of fuel, energy and so on. He has turned his face against that. However, there is one measure I would ask him to consider. Given that he has rightly given €100 per week to hauliers as an emergency payment to compensate for the rising cost of fuel because...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Irish Anti-War Movement, in conjunction with Saudi Arabian dissidents who can never return to their country because if they did, they would be killed, is organising a demonstration this Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Garden of Remembrance. Those involved will march to the Saudi Arabian embassy. The march was organised long before the war in Ukraine but, in a gesture of solidarity, they are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Behind closed doors, there is plenty of wining among the sheikhs.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any or all discussions he has had with his counterparts across Europe with regard to the war in Yemen and the ongoing humanitarian crisis there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14568/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There has been a war raging in Yemen for seven years. Some 10,000 children have died directly and indirectly as a result of that war, 377,000 people have died directly and indirectly as a result of that war and the UN estimates that 17.4 million people are on the brink of starvation. That war involves Saudi Arabia, which is armed to the teeth by allies of ours, the United States, the UK and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Presumably, if anybody in this House suggested that we should send a trade mission to Russia to develop our trade relationship, given what it is doing in Ukraine, they would get pretty short shrift from the Minister and from everybody else, rightly so. It would be similar if anybody suggested that it would be okay for any of our allies, so-called, to be selling weapons to Vladimir Putin in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 59. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the plans by Tusla to provide a women’s refuge in the Dún Laoghaire and Rathdown area of County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14566/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (24 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any or all discussions with his counterparts across Europe given the recent report by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14567/22]

Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I support this group of amendments. I am not on that committee so I was not part of that discussion, but fair points have been made. It really is quite extraordinary that the CIF would be the body to house the register of building providers. This is an attempt or effort at regulation of an industry that has failed so badly in many respects, including the health and safety of workers, bogus...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tairgim: “Go dtógfar an Bille in am Comhaltaí Príobháideacha.” I move: “That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht), 2022: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2022: First Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We believe the time is right and appropriate to have a referendum to let the people of this country make a decision, which is what this Bill is doing. We want to put our traditional military neutrality, which this and successive Governments have tried to undermine, into the Constitution so it is absolutely guaranteed and secured, and to stop the very concerted push by successive Governments...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While the people of this country are showing extraordinary solidarity and generosity in terms of the terrible suffering of the Ukrainian people, they are simultaneously being crucified by the spiralling costs of living, electricity and gas prices, energy prices and so on. The latest bad news in that regard is the ESRI report that the rate of inflation will hit 8.7% this summer. People's...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point I am making is that collectively, the Irish Government and the European and American Governments do have the power. It is a power that was used during the Second World War, whereby profiteering was stopped and the State took control of energy and other vital supplies in order to control prices. Under the current regime, even if we do develop more renewable energy it will not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Most.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I did not say we are self-sufficient. I said that the Government has the power to intervene.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices (23 Mar 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports that will be made available to taxi drivers in view of rising fuel prices particularly considering the new supports announced for hauliers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15171/22]