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Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the costs.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is the costs.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It means that a person will be paying higher rent even though his or her income is the same as other people. That is not fair. I mention the fact that the Minister or previous Governments have not raised the income thresholds. I laughed at the Minister's response to a Topical Issue matter tabled by Deputy Ó Laoghaire the other day, in which the Minister announced the income threshold...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Okay. Let us hope it is gone but it appears again here.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: That is fair enough. My office told me there was no change.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It might have. We need a mole in the Minister's Department.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We absolutely need a mole in the Minister's Department. The phrase "undue segregation" appears here again, as if there is a due or acceptable level of segregation. There is not. Why does it appear? I will tell the Minister why it appears. It is because thede factopragmatic solution is actually about new forms of segregation, and new forms of classification of cohorts of people, who will...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will not be opposing the Bill, at least at this Stage, because we want to see affordable housing as a matter of urgency. We will undoubtedly introduce amendments on the next Stage and will try to be constructive. We supported the Residential Tenancies Bill even though it was incredibly limited and did not go half far enough. We did not block that legislation. We sought to amend it but...

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What was it?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 23. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the further measures he will take to address unaffordable rents, excessive rent increases and unfair evictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33884/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action Ireland plans to take against Israel following the continued bombardment of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33911/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 219. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports that will still be given to the councils that were previously in receipt of moneys from the equalisation fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31407/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the high level of current expenditure in his Department via the housing assistance payment, the rental accommodation scheme and leasing needs to be replaced by capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31411/21]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses from the ESRI and Dr. Collins. I warmly welcome and support pretty much everything they said. I have long advocated for some of the things for which the witnesses are advocating. Tax expenditures are a shadow budget. They constitute a pretty vast realm of public money that is being spent every year and is not scrutinised in any serious way. For much of the time, we...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will not even take that because I have to go to the Business Committee now. My thanks to our contributors. This is such an important topic and I am pleased that we are starting to make it an issue. One particular suggestion which came from Dr. Collins was about how we up the scrutiny on tax expenditure so that these measures start to be taken as seriously and scrutinised as intensely...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Tax Expenditures: Discussion (24 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank the witnesses. I apologise because I have to leave but this has been a great session. I thank the them for their contributions.

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: "Reports 12.(1) That the Minister will, within 6 weeks of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the numbers of people who have been evicted since the beginning of the emergency period. (2) That the Minister will, within 6 weeks of the passing of this Act, bring a report on the numbers of people...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 15: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Amendment of Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 12.Section 6 of the Act of 2020 is amended by inserting new paragraph after paragraph (b): “and (c) any rent increases that could have legitimately been served during or after the enactment of this Act can...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 14: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Amendment of Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 12.Section 5 of the Act of 2020 is amended to read: “5. (1) All Notices of Termination of tenancy which fall to be served during or after the enactment of this Act are hereby deemed invalid and no notice of...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will support the amendment before us, in particular, along with the other amendments in the grouping. It covers some of the ground we sought to cover in our amendments Nos. 14 and 15. It seems the Minister does not really want to answer the question that is being asked about these tenants. I never used the word "tsunami", by the way, although I acknowledge it has been bandied about a...