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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The Department's guidelines for the acquisition of dwellings suggest shocking upper limit figures of €400,000, €500,000 and €700,000 for social housing units.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Are those the prices the public will pay for housing from private developers on land that was given to those developers by the State?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I am opposed to both of those developments.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much will people pay for social housing units?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: How much will people pay?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 12 o’clock It is inhumane to have children living in hostels or hotels, where their mothers or fathers cannot cook dinner for them, for years on end. It is inhumane for asylum seekers and people in family emergency homeless hubs. "Inhumane" is not an unreasonable word to use in this regard. A more important term again is "totally unnecessary". I hope the Minister of State will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will extend the right to work to all asylum seekers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47834/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of asylum seekers who would be eligible to work under the programme available to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47833/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Until May 2017, the Government operated a complete ban on the right of asylum seekers to look for employment and contribute to our society. That ban was found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 2017. The limited right to work the Government introduced as a result of the Supreme Court case has left the vast majority of asylum seekers either without the right to employment or...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Asylum Seeker Employment (20 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: This does not make sense. We have labour shortages in a large number of areas, from the health service to special needs education, childcare and construction. I could go through a list. Despite this, thousands of people who are forced to live in fairly inhumane conditions in direct provision centres, many of them in isolated areas, want to work but cannot do so. This does not make sense...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 13: In page 32, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: "Report on wealth and higher incomes taxes 26. Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on establishing a wealth tax and increased taxes on high income earners with view to achieving a more equitable distribution of wealth and income.". Something most people...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 5: In page 15, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “Report on key employee engagement programme 11. Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on the implementation of the key employee engagement programme.”. I have very little to say on this amendment other than that it has not been a particularly...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will withdraw it.

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The point has been made and the Minister knows we disagree. There are many talented people who have left or who are leaving this country. We need those people in our construction sector, public services and a number of other areas where there are quite serious labour shortages. The reason many people do not return to Ireland is due to the fact that the cost of accommodation or that wages...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I move amendment No. 2: In page 10, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: "Report on special assignee relief programme 9.Within 6 months of the passing of this Act, the Minister shall produce a report on the implementation of the special assignee relief programme.". The Minister will be aware that I am a big critic of what I describe as tax loopholes that reduce the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: The European Investment Bank, EIB, however, does not believe that any more.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: One of the central demands of the young people who have led the fight for radical climate action is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Scientists have indicated that we must keep 80% of known reserves in the ground if we are to have even a chance of not passing the tipping point as regards the climate overheating. The Government has tried to justify its decision to block People Before...

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What about the Palestinians?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a progress report on the Climate Action Plan 2019. [47382/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions: EU Meetings (19 Nov 2019)

Richard Boyd Barrett: What action, if any, does the Taoiseach believe the EU should take in the face of the latest assault by the US-Israeli axis on the rights and lands of the Palestinian people? The decade-long assault on the Palestinian people by Israel has taken a worse turn since the coming to office of President Donald Trump, be it the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel through moving the US...