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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: A new idea.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: God forbid.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: It is a tiny one.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 37. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the public expenditure measures he is considering in the forthcoming budget to address infrastructure and public service deficits and provide for demographic change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29952/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Budget 2025 (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: My question follows on from the previous one. If we take housing as an example, the Housing Commission states that need to almost double the number of houses we deliver each year. If I understand what the Minister says in the summer economic statement, there is only going to be €1.4 billion in additional capital spending. Last year's housing package was €5 billion. How on...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Bill is welcome in that it addresses the scandalous problem of student accommodation providers charging for 51 weeks when the students' term is only 41 weeks. It is positive that will be prevented and that students cannot be required to pay more than a month's rent and deposit in advance, other than their fees, if they happen to be paying their fees, to the provider. Those are welcome...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the peace summit he attended in Switzerland. [27042/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Taoiseach is absolutely right to condemn the barbaric character of Russia's actions in Ukraine. The almost certain missile attack against a children's hospital is an absolute outrage. The kidnapping of children and the illegal and unjustifiable invasion are barbaric. There is no question about it. Really, Putin is sort of reminiscent of Stalin in his barbarism. There is no doubt,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Sadly, one of the things we share on this island, North and South, is a very severe housing crisis affecting tens of thousands of people who are on council housing waiting lists. Down here it is 57,000 officially but actually nearer to 100,000 when one takes into account the HAP and RAS transfer lists. In the North 47,000 people are waiting for social housing, 35,000 of whom are considered...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The quality is so poor, people would rather sleep at the canal. That is the truth.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the shared island initiative of his Department. [28201/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I want to ask about the consequences of the defeated care referendum. I think the Taoiseach knows and we all know that a significant part of why that was defeated was the anger of people with disabilities, special needs, carers, and so on, about the failure of the Government to include real rights for carers and people with disability in the Constitution. I do not anticipate that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 3. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his plan for constitutional amendments. [28200/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 394. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what affordable housing will be or has been provided in Cherrywood in return for the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund providing funding; the price of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29128/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the details of the prices being set for affordable purchase and cost rental in Shanganagh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 530. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for applicants for civil legal aid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29628/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 753. To ask the Minister for Health if respiratory syncytial virus immunisation pathfinder programme does not include children born between 1 July and September 2024; if not, the rational for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29590/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance whether in the forthcoming budget he will give a break to ordinary workers by abolishing the USC for those earning less than €100,000 per year, given that it was originally proposed as a temporary emergency tax in the austerity period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28565/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a digital tax on the profits of social media companies to fund the replacement of the current TV licence fee and provide the funding necessary to safeguard the future of public service broadcasting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28563/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (4 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is acceptable that film producer companies in receipt of section 481 film tax credit are claiming the credit on the grounds that they are providing quality employment and training, while claiming simultaneously and on an on-going basis that the same producer company is not the employer of the film crew on the film productions for...