Results 7,441-7,460 of 27,247 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This section removes the exemption for newly-built properties and, as such, we are against it.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This section abolishes the first-time buyer's exemption from next year so we do not agree with it.
- Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: This section abolishes the exemption for unfinished estates from next year. We are against it.
- Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)
Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 9, to delete "the later of" and substitute "9 October 2021". The purpose of these amendments is to ensure that there is no option to extend the measures in this Bill, as is currently the case. We have put down this amendment in the context that we are opposed to the Bill. Regrettably, we will have to vote against it. If, as is almost certain,...
- 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.