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Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government makes many commitments regarding dealing with the homelessness crisis and the provision of affordable housing. I have raised two instances of people in homeless emergency accommodation who have secured employment, which has put them over the relevant income thresholds, and who have then been threatened with being, or actually have been, put out of emergency...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He should know; he arms quite a few of them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Look at Hungary.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not working.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach think rents will come down with all this supply?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Taoiseach think rents will come down?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not the question.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Daft report showing annual rent increases of 10% for the past year demonstrates the utter failure of the Government's rent control measures. Earlier, I heard the Taoiseach ask whether Opposition Deputies had any solutions. Uniquely we have repeatedly argued for actual rent controls where we set rents. A transition year school student, Shyanne, is doing her work placement in my office...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the housing and infrastructure unit of his Department. [6392/22]

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government does not have the guts to stand up publicly and argue with us or oppose what we asking for here, which is an emergency review of the minimum wage. In our view, there is a need to increase it to, as an absolute minimum, €15 per hour. The Government is going to accept our motion but with absolutely no intention of acting on it. The public out there should know that this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (9 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that families of persons with dementia have been informed that day services provided at a facility (details supplied) are due to be cut from three days to two days per week; the reason this is the case, rather than increase the number of persons permitted to attend three days per week to the pre-pandemic level of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: If we are going to protect and improve biodiversity and increase forest cover as part of that, something radical has to change in Coillte, the State forestry company. The Riverstick forest sale is an absolute disgrace. Before Christmas I had to help the local community in the Enniskerry area to ring alarm bells about Coillte’s plan to sell a public forest in that area, which is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a Fianna Fáil-run council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a Fianna Fáil-run council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil runs that one with the Green Party.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fianna Fáil and the Green Party run that council.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have not been opposing council developments.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tell that to the low paid.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Taoiseach the expected timeline and order of citizens’ assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [6400/22]