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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Those tenants deserve protection now because that is a ruthless logic. This is not the mom-and-pop landlord often referred to as a justification for the lack of protections; this is cold, ruthless, profit-driven logic. These people have no intention of being landlords to tenants. They have one intention and one intention only, that is, to make profit by putting people out in the street. ...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: Let us be clear that these amendments are in order. I was pleasantly surprised that they were found to be so, but the fact is they were and, as such, I do not really accept the Minister's response. It is tricky for us to bring forward amendments to this type of legislation without finding ourselves out of order. There is a difficulty in trying to do things that were not directly envisaged...

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “ “Act of 2020” means Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020;”. Before I speak directly to the amendments, I wish to say publicly that I raised with the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, earlier today an issue relating to a person who is homeless and...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am putting it on the public record because I really want that not to be the case.

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would really appreciate it that the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council or whoever needs to be contacted, is contacted as a matter of urgency and told that a cocooning place must be made available for such people. They cannot be put somewhere where their health will be put at risk. They are not vaccinated yet and so on. They got a doctor's...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The first issue I want to raise related to tenancies and tenants relates specifically to the pandemic. I found this out in the past few minutes and would like the Minister to do something about it urgently. Somebody who I know personally has just found himself homeless. He lives in Dún Laoghaire. He has been told that the only accommodation available is to share with five other...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 21. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will meet next. [33400/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to push the issue of Dublin Bay up the agenda of the Cabinet environment committee. Dublin Bay is a UNESCO biosphere and a place where fishermen-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sorry, I should have said "fishers". It is a place where fishers make a living in what is left of the decimated fishing industry. Critically, it is a precious public amenity where huge numbers of people swim. We have a major capacity problem with the Ringsend waste water treatment plant, which will not be dealt with until 2025. In the meantime, there are discharges of untreated sewage...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Why are they outside Leinster House?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There are several hundred musicians and performers outside the Dáil as we speak who have come here to protest about the abysmal failure of the Government to engage with them about a roadmap back to work, clarity as to when they can get back to work and their concern about the plans to essentially make them jobseekers. As I previously told the Taoiseach, the cliff edge for them is a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach said there would be no cliff edge for people on the pandemic unemployment payment. Taxi drivers informed me yesterday of something I did not know and I ask the Taoiseach to confirm it. It now turns out that there is a cliff edge in September and then again in November. If someone's payment reduces from €250 to €203, he or she will immediately be pushed to go on...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: There is a cliff edge, but the Government did not announce it as a cliff edge.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date by his Department in its development of a well-being framework for Ireland. [31400/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in national economic recovery plan. [33399/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 276. To ask the Minister for Health if it may not be possible to carry out complete foetal anomaly scans in University Hospital Galway’s maternity services due to Covid 19 restrictions, the implications for foetal health care and maternal health care if such a critical scan is not being completed for pregnant patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26062/21]

European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to raise a specific question that was put to me. I do not expect the Minister of State to answer now, but I would appreciate it if he could get back to me. On the issue of the EU digital Covid certificate and plans for travel within the EU, a person asked me very valid question. In the case of a person who has been told by their doctor - not through scepticism about vaccines - that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The pandemic has clarified some of the key risks facing this country, and in some cases has created risks, so it is important that we respond. The Taoiseach has spoken a lot about higher education, placements and people getting qualifications. I repeatedly put to him a number of examples of where we are not doing what he is saying we are going to do. One thing the pandemic has done is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the status of the National Risk Assessment for 2021. [33398/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The group-----