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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage is centrally responsible for this area, but this is a heritage site. It is an absolute scandal that this beautiful building is now on the brink of collapse, instead of having been refurbished, revitalised or redeveloped as a market for the people. That was originally what this building was intended to be when it was given...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----intervene to get this site refurbished in the interests of the people and our heritage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Heritage Sites (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: While that is the formal position, given that she is responsible for the protection of our heritage, the Minister should see this as a priority. What the community is saying is that the mediation with this developer, Mr. Keane, should end. This person has no interest. From looking at the record and the neglect of this beautiful site, and the resulting dereliction and vacancy, it is evident...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Given the day that is in it, I will refer to the pandemic bonus. As well as the richly-deserved €1,000 for front-line healthcare workers, carers and those working with disability should benefit. I shout out particularly for retail workers in supermarkets. They put themselves at very serious risk and literally kept us alive during the pandemic. The Minister should consider them. ...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will just say that the Dunnes Stores workers have shown the way. They are traditionally low-paid workers who kept us going at the front line. They put in a pay claim and got 10%. That is what they deserve. Especially after Covid, retail workers and lower paid workers should be getting pay increases in that order. The Government should actively try to facilitate that. Last night the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is planning to review public sector pay in view of the current inflation rate of 5.3%; if he has had discussions with the Minister for Finance as to the way that private sector workers could also be compensated for the effect that this rate of inflation is having on the cost of living for workers nationally; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The €1,000 bonus for front-line healthcare workers is richly deserved, while the additional bank holiday is something that will be welcomed widely. These gains will be somewhat hollow, however, if the cost of living and the rate of inflation continue at the current level. In effect, that will mean that workers, pensioners and social welfare recipients are in fact seeing real income...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 46. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he plans to take in relation to the recommendation from the Independent Body Examining Additional Working Hours that public service hours should be returned to pre-Haddington Road Agreement levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2456/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 51. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether public sector pay increases of 1% to 2% will be wiped out and public servants will essentially be taking a pay cut in 2022 with inflation running at 5.3%; the actions he plans to take in relation to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2457/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 109. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the request by a committee (details supplied) to meet with her and her officials to discuss the Covid-19 supports they need given the impact of public health measures on their ability to earn income over recent months; if she will respond positively to the request for a meeting; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 115. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has engaged with the Minister for Social Protection and the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment in relation to ensuring and maintaining income and grant supports for musicians and performers; if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties and lack of supports being encountered by grassroots...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 166. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the backlog in driving test waiting lists will be cleared. [2704/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I ask them not to take my comments personally. I know they are mandated in a particular way. I am one of the people who voted against the LDA to whom Deputy McAuliffe referred. I am very concerned about the announcement today and about particular elements of Mr. O'Rourke's opening statement in that he referred repeatedly to cost rental and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: To follow on from Deputy Gould's question and my own earlier question, I am worried about the levels of rent in cost rental. The statement Mr. O’Rourke made about 75% being what the LDA will deliver as cost rental concerns me, as I said. This is land that, if it was developed under the old model, would be 100% income-based rent, based on the differential rental scheme. This is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am sorry to tell Mr. O’Rourke the average house price is €590,000. It is shocking. I know he is from the area. As a supplementary question, I understand the agency is bound by its mandate but Mr. O’Rourke’s answer is very revealing and, frankly, alarming. I do not blame him for that but it really is alarming. We have the biggest and only large development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is my point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Perhaps Mr. O’Rourke or Mr. Coleman will comment on it. This really is the truth about cost rental, namely, we cannot control the rents for cost rental on public land. We cannot control them because they are linked to the cost of construction and the LDA does not know what the cost of construction is going to be and it is dependent on the market to dictate that. That is a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a wealth tax. It is seriously not a wealth tax.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is not a wealth tax. Give me a break.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Jan 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a few hundred quid that billionaires are paying.