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Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 16: In page 4, to delete lines 35 to 39 and substitute the following: "(i) specifies a termination notice that falls at any time during an emergency period, and (ii) cites as reason for the termination any of the grounds listed in section 34 of the Act of 2004.",". I know time is short and we want to vote on this and the issue in section 2. This is a specific...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Minister is talking down the clock.

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Like the other Opposition parties, we have a series of amendments, which seek to extend considerably further the protections this Bill proposes to extend only until July. We have gone the furthest in saying they should be extended until April 2021 and I will explain why we think that is right. We also support all the other amendments that go considerably further than the Government. We...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This Residential Tenancies Bill is, for the most part, a deception and a fraud. It is an attempt to suggest the Government is trying to protect tenants in the midst of the Covid pandemic when, in reality, apart from a tiny cohort of tenants for whom protections will be extended, literally a few hundred tenants, the Government’s real intention is, as of 5 April, to allow vulture funds...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the pandemic supports available to businesses trading under €50,000 per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16209/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (25 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options a person (details supplied) has to renew their stamp 4 spousal visa which is due to expire at the same time as their passport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16215/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the key pillars of climate action, which the Minister talks about but which I do not think he really understands, is the just transition for workers affected by it. Regarding the €15 million the Minister spoke of, let us consider those taxi drivers whose incomes have either been reduced to zero, for the 40% who have remained on the PUP because there is no work out there, or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I was just talking to one of the leaders of a taxi representative group just now. He spoke of a taxi driver who looked for a loan from the bank of €5,000 and was refused. Why was that? It was because when the banks look at the situation of the taxi industry as it is now, they know there is no work and no income. As a result, they think that those applying for even €5,000...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about all the debts they have?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports he plans to implement to aid taxi drivers in the coming period as a result of the impact of Covid-19 restrictions on the industry; if he plans to extend the ten-year rule for vehicles due to be replaced in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15580/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Over the last year I have repeatedly tried to get it into the heads of the Government just how crucified more than 20,000 taxi drivers have been by the impact of Covid-19. Thousands of them had to take to the streets in September to demand supports and assistance. Apart from a few changes they forced in the PUP, support for the thousands of taxi drivers has not been forthcoming from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Wrong.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Stop privatising.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing will next meet. [1329/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I feel like I am living in a parallel universe whenever I hear the Government talk about housing. I hear about all these grand plans, but I believe there will only be one additional council house in my area this year and we only got one or two last year. All the rest is outsourced and now the Government is planning to outsource more through the Land Development Agency, LDA, and privatising...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: On the issue of abortion rights in the North, anybody who is even vaguely interested in fighting for unity on this island would understand that the unprecedented movement from below of young people, particularly young women, unwilling to accept the control of their bodies and their right to bodily autonomy by the State was an all-Ireland movement. There were busloads of women, other young...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with children and youth affairs will next meet. [1328/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am shocked to hear that a Cabinet committee dealing with children and youth affairs has not met since last November. There are many groups of people who are suffering with mental health issues, stress and anxiety as a result of the Covid pandemic and the restrictions. One of those cohorts is made up of our young people and they are very significantly suffering. There is a lot of lip...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 63. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the costs to date of the BusConnects project; when proposed route changes to the network will be implemented in the Dún Laoghaire area of County Dublin; if the promised increase in services across the city of 23% will see an actual 23% increase in bus fleet numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15581/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Railway Maintenance Contracts (24 Mar 2021)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 275. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is an alternative to Iarnród Éireann in carrying out ongoing maintenance works on the rail line in Dún Laoghaire in view of the effect of the noise on local residents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14162/21]