Results 761-780 of 27,016 for speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sharon is 66 and has just retired. Her husband John is 66 and will retire in December. They have worked all their lives and paid their taxes and they are both homeless. They were evicted because the Government lifted the eviction ban and were made homeless in August. They are relying on a day-to-day basis on the emergency telephone number and on couchsurfing with different relatives...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a freefone number.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not available to people whose income is above the threshold.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: No, I am not against the HAP. I am against it as a substitute for social housing.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Give them the HAP.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am against it as a substitute for housing.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: You just did.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: They are using the freefone number.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 150. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to contact co-operative housing and DLR with regard to the new social housing development called St. Germaine, in Ballybrack village, to investigate the complaints by residents of major and multiple defects in this new development including serious damp, potentially dangerous electrics and serious, reported fire hazards and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his hosting of the competitiveness summit on 1 September 2024. [40038/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think it would be fair to describe the Cherrywood development as a flagship development for Ireland presenting itself as a place where there is quality of life, there is the housing we need and where you have all the amenities, facilities, infrastructure and so on necessary for a place where people can live and work. It is the biggest residential development in the country. I do not like...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: And shops.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I wish to bring to the Taoiseach's attention the shocking case of a new social housing development, St. Germaine, in Ballybrack in my area. It is in the hands of Co-operative Housing Ireland, an AHB, and was built by a developer called Kavco. It was finished at the end of last year and there are 31 units with many families. I met people the other day and, while they were delighted that,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The campaigners will have to go to court.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the child poverty and well-being programme in his Department. [40037/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The programme for Government made commitments on legacy issues, specifically the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. I have been asked by those campaigning, including families, victims and so on, to raise what they believe is the outrageous failure of the Government and Garda to release the files relating to the Dublin-Monaghan bombings to Operation Newham, that is, the Police Ombudsman for Northern...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will give an update on the programme for Government. [40036/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Tens of thousands of health workers across the health service are balloting for industrial action against the pay and numbers strategy. I have raised this with the Taoiseach, the Minister for public expenditure, Deputy Donohoe, and the Minister for Health repeatedly over recent weeks. Workers are feeling forced to take industrial action because the pay and numbers strategy, despite...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach did not say it publicly.