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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, absolutely.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I remind the Minister that this is a precedent, a point I put to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. There have been comments that people are skipping the queue. They are HAP tenants. They are on the list. Some are quite elderly. Some have children and are very vulnerable. They are well up the list. We have to remember that 13 empty apartments have been sitting there for two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will work with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council to ensure that the remaining tenants in a location (details supplied) who are all in receipt of social housing support are not made homeless; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55036/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle very much and I appreciate this. I raise the issue of the residents of St. Helen’s Court in Dún Laoghaire, which is a multi-unit apartment complex directly across from my office, which was bought out by vulture funds a number of years ago. The first vulture fund made two attempts to mass evict on the grounds of sale, refurbishment or various...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I appreciate that the Minister has engaged and that efforts have been made. Here is the irony. This vulture fund went into the RTB and the tenants said they thought that the claim the fund was going to sell was a ruse because the fund owns 20 apartments and said that it was only going to sell the ones where there were tenants, and the ones that were sitting empty, where the fund had managed...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he plans to announce the new income limits for social housing; if he will review the new requirement in social housing assessment regulations that means that the income of the past 12 months of the applicant is taken into account rather than the current income (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider proper rent controls that would see rent pegged to average incomes and set by a rent authority considering the constant increase of rents despite RPZ legislation and amendments to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55037/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Maritime Jurisdiction (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his input and the input of the NPWS in the Maritime Area Planning Bill 2021 with regards to the biodiversity of Ireland’s seas and nearshore and the plans for increasing the marine protected areas in the interest of protecting the environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55038/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 126. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she plans to respond positively to the requests of an organisation (details supplied) for a package of supports and measures to assist the recovery of those working in music, events and entertainment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55225/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 167. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the fact that film producer companies that are in receipt of public funding such as section 481 and Screen Ireland grants which are conditional on the provision of quality employment and training are regularly attending Workplace Relations Commission and Labour Court hearings in cases taken by...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Income Inequality (11 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to address the widespread income and employment insecurity faced by art, culture, film, music and entertainment workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55227/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach should look at Coillte's mandate in that regard.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Against what?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am against carbon tax-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----on people. Put it on the corporations.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the data centres.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tax the data centres.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thought the Taoiseach said I must have done a good leaving certificate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 20. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that deals with agriculture; and when it is next due to meet. [54562/21]