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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to add my voice to the appeal on behalf of the Stardust families for the Taoiseach to ensure that legal changes are made so we have transparent jury selection and that it is independent of the gardaí who are a party to the case. The jurors should be remunerated for the period during the inquest because it could go on for months. For the Taoiseach not to do so at this stage would...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Europe will next meet. [9700/22]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I just do not think the State should be facilitating its profiteering.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Zero council houses-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Since the cost of living crisis erupted and ordinary people face being crucified by energy and heating price hikes and rising accommodation and rental costs, we have sought to point out that this is not some natural phenomenon but that some people are benefiting from the misery and hardship that others are suffering. Last week we pointed out the enormous jump in profits for energy companies,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Seriously, the Taoiseach's arguments are utterly threadbare. He mentioned HAP. I just told him rents in Dublin are over €2,000. The highest HAP payment anyone can get is €1,950. Someone looking for a HAP tenancy in a housing crisis might as well just walk up to the nearest homeless hostel. That is the reality of what is going on. The biggest fantasy the Taoiseach is...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Walk around the city. Check how many are public housing.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Sites (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant sites identified in each local authority area across the country; the amounts levied in each area under the vacant sites levy; the amounts collected under the levy; the number of sites and the amounts outstanding in unpaid levies in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (23 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of derelict sites identified in each local authority area across the country; the amounts levied in each area under the derelict sites levy; and the amounts collected under the levy; the number of sites and amounts outstanding in unpaid levies in each of the years 2016 to 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am speaking about the higher level of VAT receipts specifically on energy and heating. Let us forget about the rest. It is up to €481 million and rising. The State has yielded a big tax bonus from the energy hikes that ordinary people are getting through their doors that they cannot afford. This gives the Minister scope not to impose further hardship on them. In fact, it gives...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether taxes on energy and heating fuel such as carbon tax and VAT are now directly contributing to fuel poverty and excessive fuel costs for many households; if he plans to take steps to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9671/22]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: People Before Profit has been against the carbon tax from the outset, despite what some Members appeared to be suggesting rather bizarrely earlier. We have been very clear in opposing carbon tax as an unfair, regressive tax. There is no evidence that it has any significant impact on the reduction CO2emissions. However, even if that was always true, it is simply blatantly self-evident that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: To be clear, what is needed are caps on energy and heating prices. That is what we believe is the necessary action. While the Minister is clearly not going to do that, although he should, it is unacceptable to add additional hardship to people by further increasing carbon taxes. He is absolutely right that on its own it is not enough. He has control of VAT, the PSO and carbon tax. This...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: That sounds good but it is just not what is happening on the ground. We are going to have to blow this fantasy out of the water. As I have pointed out on several occasions, zero council houses were built last year in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. We just got the figures. Next year, five will be built. There is a lot of construction going on in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown. The Minister...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: My constituency colleague being sent in to mark me is an interesting new phenomenon. This is a new tactic on the part of Fine Gael. It does not matter.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have a public office that is visited by people who are homeless and cannot afford stuff; the Deputy does not. I have to deal with------
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have to deal with the families who are being thrown off the housing list.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The rents in the places the Deputy is talking about are €2,200. They are not affordable for the people on the housing list and that is why people are ending up in homeless accommodation. There are 5,000 families on the various housing lists. They have been waiting 15 to 20 years because all the construction workers are building developments for profit. We get a tiny proportion of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I have noticed the new tactic. Fair enough. It is all politics.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Code (22 Feb 2022)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am not objecting; I am just pointing it out.