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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Economic recovery means very little if you cannot put an affordable roof over your head. In my area, average rents are now €2,200 a month and average house prices are in excess of €600,000. If you are on HAP, you are goosed, because the most they will give you is €1,900. So, what are you supposed to do? I would like to know what the Taoiseach thinks I should say to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the profits of the energy companies.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on economic recovery and investment last met; and when it will next meet. [6399/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [6398/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The average cost of retrofitting a house is approximately €53,000. It can be €70,000 or €80,000 for older houses to get them up to the highest building energy rating, BER. If someone is wealthy, the mooted changes in grants will benefit him or her. They might allow someone to cover the difference between €25,000 and €53,000 or more. However, the hardest...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Working people and the least well-off in our country are being absolutely crucified by the rising cost of living. The cost of energy is going up and there are unaffordable rents and real pay cuts for people, with inflation running way ahead of the pay increases received. People Before Profit has been very clear. We think that there should be controls on the cost of energy and on rents and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Energia saw its profits go up by 46% last year.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why does the Taoiseach not ask those companies to pay for the cost-of-living crisis by giving workers a decent pay increase and by controlling the cost of living?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are not working.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have never sanctioned Israel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That approach has not worked so far.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the new provisions he is putting in place to ensure affordable rents for students in view of the spiralling rent costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6442/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of extra places that would be needed in higher education to allow for an open access model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6439/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will report on discussions with the Minister for Education with regard to the possibilities of an open access model for third level that would remove the need for a traditional leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6438/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 103. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to alleviate the economic pressures on students in higher education and in particular his plans to provide affordable student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6440/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all barriers on the path qualification in psychology, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy are removed including the abolition of fees for primary degrees and postgraduate degrees and to ensure that students are paid a living wage for their placements in view of the staffing crisis in CAMHS, early...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Coillte road licences issued on the forestry licensing dashboard in week three of January 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5857/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Fine Gael is claiming the credit for that. Apologies. Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil - it does not make much difference in truth. It is the same to us. The idea was to have a State company, rather than leaving it to the private market to produce energy. A publicly owned company was created which operated on a not-for-profit basis. That is what needs to be done. We also need to extend...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will be sharing time with Deputy Paul Murphy. People are facing additional costs to heat their homes. The estimates vary but €800 over the year is a reasonable estimate by bonkers.ie. Against that background, €100 is pathetic and insulting. It is a drop in the ocean and will not cut it. It is good the Government seems to be acknowledging that more needs to be done, as...