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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will take measures to accelerate the processing time of housing applications and disability or medical information forms; if he will address the issue of frequent refusals of medical priority and need, despite overwhelming medical and welfare evidence to the contrary that priority is required and that particular...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is taking to ensure that the affordable to purchase housing at Shanganagh, and on all other publicly provided affordable housing schemes, will be genuinely affordable for those on average incomes. [36999/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 129. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to set up community bus services during the day, to offer school bus drivers more paid hours during the day in order to alleviate the shortage of school bus drivers available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37104/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 174. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions he has had, or is planning, with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in light of the Government acknowledgement, and the recent ESRI report, on the need to significantly increase housing delivery targets over the coming years, and the public expenditure implications of such a revision; and...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Apple ruling confirms Governments colluded systematically over more than a decade with the efforts of Apple to avoid tax and deprive the people of €14 billion when they were on their knees being crucified with austerity. It is worth remembering that in 2013, we were also starting the process of getting rid of the biggest property portfolio in the world via NAMA and selling it off...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I say to the Taoiseach that there are no red lines for Israel. There is no atrocity it will not commit or horror it will not perpetrate. The latest one is by any definition an act of reckless, murderous state terrorism. This is the evil genius of getting thousands of pagers and putting explosives inside the pagers and then simultaneously detonating them all over Lebanon and parts of Syria....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is worse. The IMO says it is worse.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [36722/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: In July, the HSE announced that there was a lifting of a recruitment embargo for the health services. That announcement was a deception. How do I know? It is because over the past number of weeks, I have had multiple calls from people at different grades and in departments in St. Michael's Hospital saying that a staff quota has been imposed. This means maternity and sick leave is not...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will meet next. [36723/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Central Bank has followed the Housing Commission in telling us that our housing needs are twice - maybe more than twice - what Housing for All projected them to be. That is how inadequate the Housing for All plan is. To meet these targets, we have to double housing output. In particular, we have to dramatically increase the social and affordable housing component of that because what...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: For the third time, I ask the Taoiseach - he gave me a commitment, but I have not heard back from him - about taxi drivers who have reached the ten-year deadline to replace their taxi. It is a very expensive business to replace a taxi. As I pointed out, people who were approaching that deadline during Covid-19 got an extension but only for certain years. Drivers of cars from 2015, 2016 and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and credit with the banks and so on. The Minister for Transport is not coming back; he is not being positive. Will the Taoiseach ask him to give the extension to those who lost income and employment during Covid?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I thank all the contributors. I am sorry I missed the opening statements but I was over in the Dáil. I had read through most of their submissions and I thank them. I want to ask about the State construction company that NERI asked about because I am very much in favour of that. Does anybody have an opinion on that? NERI mentioned in its document that one way to use some of the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I mostly want to ask about the future, the budget and all the rest but, given the debate we had in the Dáil today and the Apple tax issue, I just want to ask a question. My question is for the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, in particular, because he was around then. Does he and the Government regret the fact it did not take on the views of some of us in the Opposition back in 2013 when we...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: -----and should have allowed those representatives to be questioned about the company's tax affairs?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is not just any old taxpayer.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will certainly agree to disagree on that one.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I think most ordinary people in this country would say that if they were accused of taking money from the people that the people should have had, they would be chased down by the State for doing that. In some cases they might even end up in prison for doing it, such as for TV licences and so on. I think most people would find that pretty difficult to stomach. At the time, some of us said...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: We will agree to disagree.