Results 7,501-7,520 of 26,843 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: When it comes to the housing crisis, I am afraid the Taoiseach is living in a parallel universe. Every single day, evidence of the disastrous consequences of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil policies piles up. In the past few weeks, there has been evidence about cuckoo funds pricing ordinary working people out of being able to buy homes. Yesterday, evidence emerged of rents rising across the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For 15 years I have been campaigning to get public and affordable housing on the Shanganagh prison site, so the Taoiseach should not say that we do not want affordable housing. Fianna Fáil- and Fine Gael-controlled councils in our area have not seen one sod turned and now the Government wants to hand it over to the LDA. People need to read the Bill. The only mention of social housing...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not want the Government to sell off the public land bank.

Companies (Protection of Employees' Rights in Liquidations) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think and, I hope, that when the names of taoisigh, tánaistí and Deputies who were in office over the past year have been long forgotten, the memory, inspiration and the legend of what the Debenhams workers have done over the past 15 months will still echo through the annals of working-class history. I have no doubt people will be singing songs, reciting poems and writing plays...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Registration of Births (12 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 130. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for a delay in processing the foreign birth registration of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24726/21]

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank Sinn Féin for using its Private Members' time to raise this important issue. The Government has learned absolutely nothing from the disastrous mistakes that have led to the current housing crisis. The two mistakes were the disastrous decision to invite in the vulture funds, cuckoo funds and speculators, particularly in 2013 and 2014, and the simultaneous and equally...

Europe Day: Statements (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Earlier, the Taoiseach said that what defined the European Union was that it is an institution based on the idea of rules-based international co-operation. He argued that the European Union is a bulwark against extremism. Let us test that proposition against the EU's relationship with Israel on the day that Israel is, once again, committing war crimes in Gaza. As we speak, it is launching...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the social policy and public service reform division of his Department. [21778/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also think it is beyond despicable that the Stardust families are not being given legal aid. The Taoiseach should address that as a matter of absolute urgency because the families have been through enough and do not need further obstacles put in the way of their pursuit of justice. I wish to raise a matter I have raised with the Taoiseach a number of times, that is, the plight of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Late in the day as it is and hollow sounding as it is, will the Taoiseach's claim that housing is now the Government's priority lead to any actual change in the disastrous policy that has led us to the housing crisis we are experiencing? There seems to be a grudging acknowledgement of what an absolute disaster Fine Gael and Labour made by allowing these vulture funds to come in and take over...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They will be looked after well enough.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I object to the vote on the national marine planning framework happening at all until there has been proper scrutiny of that framework by the relevant committees. This week, the Government has aroused the ire of people in the context of letting vulture funds run amok in this country and wrecking the housing sector on land. Now, exactly the same thing-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----is planned for the offshore by the same types of interests wishing to profit from Ireland's offshore with what are deemed relevant projects. It is not acceptable that this framework would be voted through until we have real and proper scrutiny of some of the investment interests that have grabbed pieces of our offshore and until proper environmental and biodiversity impact assessments...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Can the Taoiseach guarantee-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I also believe we need statements on what is happening in Jerusalem. The particular spark for this event is the fact the Israeli authorities, prompted by settlers, are seeking to evict 28 families from the Sheikh Jarrah area of Jerusalem. It is worth saying that these people are already double refugees in that they were driven from Haifa and villages and towns throughout Palestine in 1948....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the temporary moratorium for taxi drivers from 10 to 15 years; if the Taxi Advisory Committee will be replaced with a forum that would allow the drivers to bring their issues directly to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23685/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (11 May 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 245. To ask the Minister for Finance if an employer availing of the employment wage subsidy scheme who does not qualify on an end of month review during January 2021 to June 2021 has to repay the subsidy for the previously qualifying months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24494/21]