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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The film producers refused to engage with that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we get towards the end of this Dáil session, I appeal to the Taoiseach on an issue I have raised a number of times over the past few weeks. Despite his promises that there would not be a PUP income cliff for those who have lost income or employment as a result of the pandemic and who are still significantly impacted by the pandemic and the lack of recovery in their sectors, such a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Government should not push them over a cliff.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Some of them are going over the cliff in September.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Could we give the Taoiseach an extra two minutes to respond and take the time from the third group? There are only a couple of questioners in the third group.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am hoping to get answers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Will the Taoiseach look into it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council, an independent statutory agency operating under the aegis of his Department. [37715/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: NESC has done quite a lot of work on the area of good employment and what that should be. I have raised with the Taoiseach on a number of occasions, as have others and advocates in the areas of arts, film and cultural works, the distinct lack of good work. Film relief under section 481 contains a legal requirement for quality employment but, as NESC points out, that is not defined. I will...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The committee the Taoiseach is talking about also deals with social affairs and equality. A week or two ago, I raised the issue of St. Mary's Boys' National School in Booterstown with the Taoiseach. For months it has been seeking to get sign-off from the Government on an attempt to purchase the parish hall, which the parish is willing to sell, for an autism spectrum disorder, ASD, unit. At...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not just us. The ESRI is saying it now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop building hotels.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is facing an autumn of discontent in this country when it comes to his failure and that of successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments to address the housing crisis we face. This morning, the Raise the Roof coalition met to discuss dates for a major demonstration before the budget. The national housing and homelessness coalition has already set a date for a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The misguided and ill-fated Rebuilding Ireland programme to solve the housing crisis put forward by Fine Gael and Labour projected 87,000 HAP, RAS and leasing tenancies. It was a disastrous plan which has left us reliant on vulture funds and so on to deliver housing. Of course, they have not delivered. That is not their job. Their job is to make money and charge extortionate rents. That...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the fact that windows which cannot be opened on long journey trains are in effect a sealed off unit from fresh air and that recirculating air via air conditioning does not have sufficient filtration systems to deal with Covid-19 as noted by the European Railways Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31571/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (14 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 306. To ask the Minister for Health if the temporary assistance scheme will be further extended to support private and voluntary nursing homes with additional costs due to Covid-19 (details supplied); if not, if he is considering replacement funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30786/21]

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The view of People Before Profit, as the Minister knows well, is that the property tax is an unjust, regressive and unfair tax on the family homes of large numbers of working people who have struggled to purchase a home and then have this tax imposed on them. This tax takes no account whatever of their income and their ability to pay. When it was introduced, and contrary to some of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Jul 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Delay it until people are vaccinated.