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Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 11: In page 7, line 14, after “for” to insert “public and affordable”.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 12: In page 7, lines 14 to 19, to delete all words from and including ‘‘to” where it secondly occurs in line 14 down to and including “price” in line 19.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 14: In page 8, line 4, to delete “Land Development Agency Act 2021” and substitute “Active Land Assembly and Management Agency Act 2021”. This group of amendments is also from Solidarity-People Before Profit.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will take it.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I get in again.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I get the last word.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Does the Minister not want to respond?

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want the Minister to respond and then I get the last word because I tabled all the amendments.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is caught by his own guillotine.

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We have a problem with amendment No. 13. We welcome the fact that the reference to market price, which was one of our amendments, has been removed. Then, however, it refers it on to the Affordable Housing Bill, in which there is no clear definition that ensures "affordable" will genuinely be affordable in terms of rent or affordable purchase based on people's income. Instead, it will be...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As the mover of most of the amendments in this group, I will respond to the Minister. Many of the contributions probably were not directly to do with the amendments but that shows the frustration Members feel about housing in every area. Members are just looking for every opportunity to raise this issue because it is such a pressing crisis. I agree with the Minister that there is a...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, lines 5 to 19, to delete line 5 down to and including "price" in line 19 and substitute the following: "An Act to regulate relevant public and relevant private land in order to increase the amount of land available for the provision of public and genuinely affordable housing; for that housing to address deficiencies in the stock of public and affordable...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will let the Minister make the case for that one. I will speak to the amendments tabled by People Before Profit. They relate to the Title of the Bill and, essentially, the setting out of its purposes and the purpose of the Land Development Agency, LDA. In some ways, the amendments in this group are a summary of many of the problems we have with the Government's plan for the LDA and what...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We are allocated a certain amount of time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the recent meeting of the British-Irish Council. [34683/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As there was not enough time for the Taoiseach to answer my previous question, perhaps he will do so now because Britain is one of several European countries that regularly sells large amounts of arms to Saudi Arabia, which that country then uses to devastating and murderous effect in Yemen. We have a responsibility to say to all of our neighbours in Europe, whether inside or outside the EU,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I understand that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, met with representatives of the Saudi Arabian regime recently. Can the Taoiseach tell us if the Cabinet subcommittee on Europe has discussed the issue of the absolutely terrible war in Yemen, which has lasted for almost seven years? Approximately 16 million people, half the population, are suffering from hunger, 3 million...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Europe will next meet. [34682/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why will the Minister and the Government not commit to actually making affordable housing genuinely affordable on public land and on developments where we are getting affordable housing from private developers?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Consider areas of Dublin such as the Glass Bottle site at Poolbeg where developers like Johnny Ronan and so on are involved. These developers are not building anything for less than €500,000 and often more. That is not affordable. The concern is that the Government will not strictly define "affordable" to ensure that it is actually affordable based on people's income. To pay for a...