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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is thanks to Russia and America. They wrecked the place.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the environment and climate change will next meet. [47963/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I have raised the plight of taxi drivers with the Taoiseach many times. They were hit very hard during the pandemic. Taxi drivers also have a key role to play in the decarbonisation of transport. Some €15 million was allocated after some big protests by taxi drivers during the period of Covid for grants to be available to them to get electric cars. To their disappointment and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why not scrap the SHD now?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: He has extended it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a two-month waiting list.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Government co-ordination last met and will next meet. [47962/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The strategic housing development planning process, which allows developers and property speculators to get around the normal planning process and increase the value of sites that they purchase, has been thoroughly discredited. It was supposedly brought in to accelerate the delivery of the housing that we need to address the housing crisis but, as we know, only one third of strategic housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met and will next meet. [47961/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Our ability to reopen society to cope with Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 healthcare is critically dependent on our intensive care unit capacity which, before Covid-19 and still, remains chronically under-resourced, understaffed, and about half of the capacity of the EU average per 100,000 population. I had an eye-opener in respect of the failure of the Government to address this problem when an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (20 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the six Palestinian prisoners who are on hunger strike to protest their administrative detention and imprisonment without charges or formal trial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51389/21]

Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In my area, if you find yourself having to rent a place, you are, by definition, in a housing crisis unless you are very rich. The average rents are €2,200 per month. To be honest, you would be lucky to find a place for that and rents continue to rise. Let us think about that. You would need after-tax income of €26,000 to pay the average rent in my area. That is completely...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [46801/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 22. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [50786/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the shared island unit. [50785/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over years now, I have repeatedly asked about the social housing income thresholds being raised. I have been told by the last Government and this Government that they are being reviewed. This review has been going on for years and we are never given a date for when it is going to be completed. I have to draw the conclusion there is a systematic policy to cull people from the housing list...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Get rid of the thresholds.

Death of Sir Davis Amess MP: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On behalf of People Before Profit, I extend our deepest sympathies to the wife, daughters, family, friends and constituents of David Amess. To be murdered in that way is really horrific, terrible and tragic. It should certainly give us all pause for reflection. As others have alluded to, whatever about political differences and the need for robust debate, a critical part of our...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We do not need houses at €500,000.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Oct 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not at €500,000.