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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 78: In page 13, line 25, after “public” to insert “and private”.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 79: In page 13, line 27, after “of” to insert “public and affordable”.

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will share time with Deputies Murphy and Barry. Both the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance got quite annoyed with People Before Profit this morning saying that we never recognise the good things the Government does, and that we are just looking for reasons to give out. I refute that absolutely. Of course, we acknowledge the income and wage supports, grants to SMEs and so on to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Last week, the Government unfortunately voted against my amendment seeking to impose sanctions on Israel of the same sort we imposed on apartheid South Africa. I think that is a mistake and I think history will ultimately vindicate the view that this is an apartheid state and that it should be treated in the same way as apartheid South Africa. Beyond that general proposition, I want to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I do not.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And the psychologists as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the EU and international division of his Department. [26505/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the national reform programme. [28373/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am on the Committee on Budgetary Oversight, which deals with a lot of these and with reports and commentaries on the Irish economic situation. It is an interesting fact that groups like the IMF, which we do not associate with left-wing ideology, have said a number of things. One is that income supports should not be pulled too early. Despite that, the Government has given an arbitrary...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: As we speak, advertisements on the radio are inviting people to check out the Government's website on the national recovery programme and all the announcements being made. However, a couple of announcements are absent, about which I have repeatedly asked the Taoiseach. More importantly, the groups affected by the pandemic and public health measures and whose incomes and livelihoods have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service. [29780/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The property tax is not only an unfair tax; it is an utterly pointless tax. When the Fine Gael-led Government introduced it, the justification for it was that it would dampen the property market and fund local services. Now we see the reality - not a single extra cent for local government. With the removal of the equalisation fund, we will deepen the gap in the ability of local authorities...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The property tax, so-called, is a fundamentally unjust tax because it takes no account whatsoever of the homeowner's income or ability to pay. It becomes even more unfair in the context of the disastrous failure of this Government to control a fundamentally dysfunctional housing market. Property prices have gone off the Richter scale. In areas like my own, as well as much of Dublin and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (2 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will request that driver theory tests to be deemed an essential service and for in-person testing to reopen in centres in a safe and a socially distanced manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29982/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [29779/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of wheelchair accessible taxi grants issued for the period March 2020 to May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29535/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 235. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost of wheelchair accessible grants issued for the period March 2020 to May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29536/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of wheelchair accessible taxi grants issued for the period March 2020 to May 2021 that were issued to persons who did not previously own a small public service vehicle licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29537/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (1 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of wheelchair accessible taxi grants issued for the period March 2020 to May 2021 that were issued to persons changing from an existing saloon licence to a wheelchair accessible vehicle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29538/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (1 Jun 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the backlog in homeless HAP payments is causing warnings and threats of eviction to tenants from landlords and causing anxiety to those who already have experience of homelessness and do not wish to return to that scenario again as in the case of a person (details supplied);...