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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. I have made my point. I would just ask Mr. Madouros to look a little bit closer into the evidence on that last point. Among others, the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform have done studies on this in which they did not really find planning as a major problem. The Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, IGEES, report, for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I would also raise the question of finance other than domestic banks limiting our exposure., but it also has other impacts. Mr. Madouros should consider them when he is making those comments. There are clearly other impacts of that, and I am the view that they are, arguably, seriously detrimental to our ability to resolve the housing crisis. On the consumer issues I wanted to ask about,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: We got a reply from the Central Bank's director of consumer protection in May.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Great, I would appreciate that. As part of answering that, will Mr. Makhlouf state whether there has been an investigation into this and the number of Irish people potentially exposed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thanks, last question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The previous member had a lot more time, so I will have one last question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I will. It is on the selling of Israeli war bonds. I think the Central Bank response to the concerns raised about its facilitating the sale of bonds that are being clearly sold as war bonds and supporting the Israeli military action in Gaza and so on is that there is nothing it can do about it because it relates to the framework of what it has and has not remit over at EU level. I think...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: So, in one sentence, there is no ethical or moral framework that impinges on the rules governing the selling of these things. I am not pointing a finger at Mr. Makhlouf.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: Thank you. I never doubted it for a second.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (9 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I know that.
- Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: It is outrageous that the debate on this Bill is being guillotined. I still do not fully understand all the implications of the legislation. This way of proceeding is wrong. As my party's spokesperson on housing, I consider myself fairly clued in and focused on the issues. This legislation is not being given adequate scrutiny is to what precisely it does. That is a problem and a matter...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government is deceiving the public about the reference to addressing the crises in our health service. It claimed there was no recruitment embargo. Last week, health workers from all health unions were protesting about the pay and numbers strategy, an effective embargo which means we have unsafe staffing levels in our hospitals. In my own area, we had a meeting with many workers and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I am very happy to support the call for statements on child protection. They should take place this week. It is a serious issue. However, we have asked for some time for the Government to allow for a discussion and questions to the Minister on the use of Shannon by the US military and the use of Irish airspace for the transport of weapons from the US to Israel to kill children in Gaza and...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: No.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the rest of the Order of Business?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: But what about the rest of the Order of Business?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: A Cheann Comhairle-----
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (8 Oct 2024)
Richard Boyd Barrett: 305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she would consider extending the fuel allowance payment options so that it can be received annually in order to enable persons to bulk purchase fuel oil for home tanks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39979/24]