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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: First Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I commend the Simon Communities of Ireland on this extremely important Bill. Last week, a man came to my clinic with an eviction date in a couple of weeks. He broke down crying in front of me because he thought he and his family would be out on the street. He was absolutely racked with terror at that possibility. This happens week in, week out. This man had done nothing wrong. He had...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course the vaccine has made an enormous difference. We have actively encouraged people to take it up, as has everybody in this House. However, it is still not enough. It is clearly not enough because we are asking entertainment, music, taxi drivers and all sorts of people to take the hit once again as we head into Christmas and asking people to reduce their social contacts. Maybe that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why hold back?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What of the restaurants, bars and hospitals?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am saying this could help get us out of this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Of course people should take up their vaccine boosters and of course there is no silver bullet for Covid-19, but I am shocked at the Taoiseach's complacency, inaction and, quite frankly, his denial of science when it comes to the issue of air quality and ventilation. That is what it is. We now know that Covid-19 is an airborne disease. It hangs around in the air. In particular, it hangs...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 128. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the average time for an official complaint to the Health and Safety Authority to be processed and acted upon. [59964/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected date for the completion of the permanent school building for a school (details supplied). [59769/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 453. To ask the Minister for Health if a tender for a respite service for young adults with autism in community healthcare east has been completed; if so, the details of the successful tender; the location of the service; the type of respite that will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59797/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (7 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 527. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine and remedy the delay in the assessment of need and diagnosis which is the legal right of a person (details supplied) within the prescribed time period of six months. [60015/21]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I genuinely would like to be able to say I think this Bill will make any difference at all in improving the lot of those who are looking for private rented accommodation, living in such accommodation or facing eviction, or who have been evicted, through no fault of their own, from such accommodation. Tragically, there is really nothing at all in the Bill that will make the slightest bit of...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Vótáil.

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It really directly follows on from that and goes back to the point I made earlier in asking what the point is here. My understanding is that the Minister does not envisage introducing mandatory hotel quarantine for UK arrivals, or at least, that is the signal we got. What we were talking about is states like South Africa, where there have been restrictions placed on travel. I think they...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Mandatory quarantining cannot stop Omicron, yet that is the only reason mandatory quarantining is being considered. What is the point? What is the endgame of putting a large amount of resources and money into putting a draconian measure into place? Although we did not agree with the Minister's version of mandatory quarantining, we called for mandatory quarantining when the population was...

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not all.

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Equality of treatment.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Where would we get the money if we did not have these investors to build the houses we need? Credit unions have said repeatedly they have the money, which are savings as well, but in a not-for-profit institution, where they have the interests of our communities and the social objective of housing people at heart. That is one source of money. I refer to what we discussed earlier about...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is an implication that we could not do it without them. When this country was effectively a Third World country, we were able to build public housing. It can and should be done.

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Amendment No. 40 relates to the tax treatment of institutional investors and corporate landlords and their impact on the housing sector, affordability and rents. I did not hear all of Deputy Lahart's contribution but the thrust of it seemed to suggest that there was a time when we needed these investors and that they brought some beneficial impact to the housing sector but that maybe we need...

Finance Bill 2021: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I said we questioned the issue.